Mining Collection (page 17)

Sopwith Model VII: Denudation of mineral veins
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on otherwise flat, horizontal strata. The discontinuity between the beds as viewed at the surface can be seen

Sopwith Model VI: Intersecting mineral veins
This Model, rather than representing the strata as they would appear at the surface, shows how a seam of coal can be displaced in the subsurface by various modes of faulting

Sopwith Model XI: Vertical intersecting veins
This model, when separated, shows the complex interface between faulted strata of rocks. Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879) was an eminent geologist

Sopwith Model XII: Mineral vein denudation
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on inclined strata, with increased complexity to the situation in Model VII

Sopwith Model VIII: Overcutting of strata
This model shows overcut strata: when the layers of rock are inclined at a gentler angle than the eroded slope, the resulting vee pattern points uphill

Sopwith Model VII: Surface denudation
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on otherwise flat, horizontal strata. The discontinuity between the beds as viewed at the surface can be seen

Sopwith Model X: Denuded basset of strata
This model shows undercut strata: when the layers of rock are inclined at a steeper angle than the eroded slope, the resulting vee pattern points downhill

Sopwith Model V: Dislocations of coal strata
This model shows that while very little coal may appear at ground level, coal seams (subject to faults and dislocations) can be found below the ground

Sopwith Model IV: Fallacious coal indications
This model depicts the scenario where from the surface an abundance of coal appears to exist, but there is actually very little quantity below

Sopwith Model III: Dislocation of strata
This model represents the side of a valley of denudation, with undisturbed horizontal beds of sedimentary rock when fully assembled

Sopwith Model I: Stratified rocks / denudation
Black lines in this model represent coal seams, between lighter shales and sandstones. When separated the lower section shows a gently inclined valley floor

Sopwith Model II: Coal strata nr Newcastle
Unlike the models of generic situations this representation of coal strata was specific to a particular surveyed location in England showing several thin, and mostly hidden, coal seams

Cover of Thomas Sopwiths Geological Model Set
Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879) was an eminent geologist and civil engineer who pioneered methods of representing geological features

Thomas Sopwiths Geological Model Set
Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879) was an eminent geologist and civil engineer who pioneered methods of representing geological features

View of McGill, Nevada, USA, with the Nevada Northern Railway on the right. It was a location for copper mining and smelting. Date: circa 1913

Can House, Tonopah, Nevada, USA
The Can House (constructed out of metal cans), Tonopah, Nevada, USA, with a man standing outside. Date: circa 1910

Mizpah Shaft, Tonopah Mining Company, Nevada, USA
Mizpah Shaft of the Tonopah Mining Company, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1910

View of Tonopah, Nevada, USA
View of Tonopah, a mining town in Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1940

Selwyn, Queensland, Australia
View of Selwyn, Western Queensland, Australia, a copper and gold mining town, with the Mount Elliott Hotel on the right. Date: circa 1910

Gold Hill, Nevada, USA
General view of Gold Hill, Nevada, USA, a mining town with a predominantly Cornish population. 1875

Rock salt mine, Lyons, Kansas, USA
Rock salt mine at Lyons, Kansas, USA Date: circa 1910

Gold bricks on display, Lead, South Dakota, USA
Gold bricks on display at Lead, South Dakota, USA. The large Homestake Gold Mine was discovered in 1876. The gold bricks seen here were worth $125, 000 at the time

Come down under Australia emigration poster 1926-7
Poster encouraging British emigration to Australia, 1926-7. To the young unemployed miner, come down under and be a digger on the surface. Work, health and happiness on the land in Australia

View of Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, a silver mining town, with the Loreto Mine premises in the foreground. Date: circa 1910

British cricket team near Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil
British cricket team (and others) in Morro Velho, near Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil. They were part of a large British colony centred around the Morro Velho gold mine

British football team near Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil
British football team in Morro Velho, near Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil. They were part of a large British colony centred around the Morro Velho gold mine

The Burra Burra copper-mine in South Australia, showing the surface operations. 1848

Prince of Wales visits mines
A cover of The Illustrated London News shows the Prince of Wales visiting mines during a tour of the west of Britain. In the top and lower left pictures he is seen visiting mines in Cornwall

Face workers in a tin mine, Cornwall, with the seam of tin visible on the right. Date: circa 1980s

Listening for counter-mining in the First World War
A French officer of engineers in a mine-gallery, listening for German counter-mining with special drums and microphones. A very delicate operation. Date: 1917

General view of Georgetown, Colorado, USA. The town began as a silver mining camp in the late 1850s. Date: 1901

Clear Creek County Court House, Georgetown, Colorado, USA
Clear Creek County Court House (built in 1868), Georgetown, Colorado, USA. Date: 1940s

Miners at work, Victor, Colorado, USA
Miners at work, drilling one thousand feet underground in a gold mine at Victor, Colorado, USA. Date: circa 1910

Molly Kathleen Mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA
Scene inside the Molly Kathleen Mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA. A miner stands next to a cart containing gold ore ready to be taken to the surface. Date: circa 1910

General view of Wallace, Idaho, USA
General view of Wallace, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA. Date: circa 1910

Georgetown Colorado Carpenters Gothic
The Maxwell House a fine Carpenters Gothic timber framed house in Georgetown, Colorado, centre of the Pikes Peak Gold Rush. Built in 1870 for Thomas Maxwell a mining engineer

St. Barbara Church. CZECH Rep Kutna Hora. Vault
St. Barbara Church. CZECH Rep.. Kutna Hora. Vault that covers the central nave. Gothic art. Architecture

Gold Mining in California. Scenes of the 1849 Californian Gold Rush showing cradling, panning, washing with a long tom and hydraulic mining. Coloured lithograph by Currier and Ives 1871. Litography

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - First output of Gold
Black and white lantern Slide of the First Output of Gold - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection

South Africa - Washing gear and floor
Black and white image of mining operation, South Africa.. Part of Box 287, South Africa Diamond Mines, Boswell Collection. Slide number 31. Date: circa 1890s

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