Mining Collection (page 18)

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

Sydney, Australia - Silver Mine - Broken Hill
Slide showing a photograph of a Silver mine. Broken Hill is Australias longest-lived mining city. In 1844, the explorer Charles Sturt saw and named the Barrier Range

Central America - Gold Mining - Lantern Slide series
Gold Mining in Central America - A coloured lantern slide of two small white buildings in a hilly landscape, with trees and various foliage in the foreground.. Slide from Box 270B. Date: circa 1900

A typical oil-pump - oil-well in a desert. near Kumdag - Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

A typical oil-pump on an oil-well with a puddle of oil - in a desert near Kumdag. typical in Turkmenistan former CIS - Spring - April

Iron-ore mining and smelting industrial complex. Magnitogorsk town - Chelyabinsk region - South-East of Ural Mountain Range - steppe landscape around - July

Old Mining Town near Luderitz called Ghost Town. Namibia - Africa

View of Mayo from steamer, Yukon Territory, Canada
View of Mayo, Yukon Territory, Canada, from the steamer Nasultin, with ice in the water, 8 October 1919. Mayo was a silver mining town. Date: 1919

Group photo, Mayo, Yukon Territory, Canada
Group photo outside the Hotel Royal Alexandra (proprietor Oscar Letourneau), Mayo, Yukon Territory, Canada, 11 October 1919. According to the inscription, those pictured are about to leave

Steamer in ice, Mayo, Yukon Territory, Canada
The steamer Nasultin surrounded by ice at Mayo, Yukon Territory, Canada, October 1919. Mayo was a silver mining town. Date: 1919

Goldminers in Chitina Valley, Alaska, USA. They are relaxing in their camp at Hells Half Acre, near the Kennecott Mines, Wrangell area. Date: circa 1920

Goldminers in Alaska, USA
Goldminers in their camp, Alaska, USA. Date: circa 1908

Cleary Creek, Alaska, USA
Aerial view of Cleary Creek, Fairbanks District, Alaska, USA, with tents in a snowy landscape. Date: circa 1905

First Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, with snow on the ground. circa 1905

Senghenydd Universal Colliery Disaster, Glamorgan, S. Wales
Rescue scenes as pictured in The Illustrated London News at the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales

Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, Glamorgan, South Wales
Scene at the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales. There were 439 miners killed in total, making this the worst mining accident in the UK

Schenley Farms District, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Schenley Farms District, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: 1914

Miners at mine entrance, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Miners at mine entrance, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: early 20th century

Slag heap and mining complex around Loos February 18
Slag heap and mining complex around Loos. February 18. 313870 Gunner Vivian John Cummings, Born 31.07.1875, 3Rd Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force

Trench Art model of a British mine layer, WW1
Trench Art model of a British mine layer on a brass base celebrating the Royal Navys capture of a German submarine

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