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Bakestonedale Moor above Pott Shrigley has seen an extensive coal mining industry over the past 2-300 years. The last coal and fireclay extraction took place in the mid 1960's before the Peak Park planners put a stop to it. The nineteenth century workings left a number of deep shafts which remained open until the 1970's when they were capped by the then National Coal Board leaving distinctive concrete obelisks on the shaft top.
The Cannock Chase Colliery Company 1859 1955 1962
see the Cannock Chase Mining Historical Society
Coal loading slips for Anglesey Basin (Chasewater) 1914
Coal types
Deep coal
Deep one way
Deep through and through
Deep rough
Shallow coal
Shallow one way
Shallow rough
Hard seconds
Yard coal
rough slack
yard slack
engine slack
new mine coal
The Cannock Chase Colliery Company – 1859 to 1962
Numbered
1 Hammerwich ---- next to Chasewater dam
2 Uxbridge (The Fly) ---- Church Road, Chasetown – now the rugby club
3 (The Plant) ---- Plant Lane, off Cannock Road, Chase Terrace
4 ---- Union Street, Chasetown
5 ---- opposite Princess Street, off Cannock Road, Chase Terrace
6 (Cannel Mount) ---- off Wimblebury Road
7 ---- Sevens Road, Prospect Village
8 ---- off Wimblebury Road
9 ---- Hednesford
10 ---- Hednesford
Receipts from 1485 of 17th January 1914 to 1636 of 24th January 1914.
Coal loaded from Collieries 2 3 5 and 8.
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This mining exploration camp is located in the Kiniskan Lake area of Northwestern British Columbia. Mostly a lot of drilling was taking place when we went to conduct water sampling for this project. August 5, 2006.
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
Found this little bee crawling on the garden path. It's about half an inch long and with a golden abdomen with black stripes and rich, rusty coloured thorax.
Anyone know what it is? Can't find an obvious choice in my bee ID charts, although it might be a Leafcutter Bee, going by the illustrations I have, which give no sense at all of how brightly coloured the bee really is.
I put it safely on a dandelion, out of harm's way. It settled in to nectaring, though whether it'll make it I don't know.
Update: Duh. I already have a couple of images of this species. *shakes head in despair*.
It's a female Tawny Mining Bee.
By 1864 Hite's Cove was a small community of 100 people, a hotel, two saloons, and a Chinatown, as well as a post office. It also had a 10-stamp, then a 20-stamp mill.
This area is filled with old mining equipment, perhaps dating to the stamp mills or even beforehand. This looks like it may have been a Knight Wheel, perhaps turning the stamps.
Hite Cove, Stanislaus National Forest, El Portal, California
Mining started during the mid 1600s in this area and went on up to the beginning of the 1900s.
One can certainly imagine the hardships of mining here in such a remote area. Apparently, they mined from March up to October.
Mining Equipment near the Hull Rust Mine Overlook in Hibbing, Minnesota. The Hull Rust Mine is the world's largest open pit mine.
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
To Eckley came a succession of immigrant groups seeking economic opportunities and religious or political freedom.
English, Welsh, and German miners were supplanted by the Irish immigrants and then by southern and eastern Europeans. These groups formed an ethnic mosaic typical of the anthracite region.
After the WPPI show, I headed into the Mojave Desert hills. I was looking for the Evening Star mine and a place to stay for the night.
Got here just as the sun was setting.
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Virginia City is a census-designated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada. It is part of the Reno–Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 855 at the 2010 Census.
Virginia City is one of the oldest established communities in Nevada. Like many cities and towns in the state, Virginia City was a mining boomtown; it appeared virtually overnight as a result of the Comstock Lode silver strike of 1859.
At its peak, Virginia City had a population of over 15,000 residents and was called the richest city in America. During the 20 years following the Comstock success "about $400 million was taken out of the ground." Most of the miners who came to the city were Cornish or Irish. In 1870, Asians were 7.6% of the population. When the Comstock Lode ran out in 1898, the city's population declined sharply.
Virginia City could be considered the "birthplace" of Mark Twain, as it was here in February 1863 that writer Samuel Clemens, then a reporter on the local Territorial Enterprise newspaper, first used his famous pen name.
Many locals work at the shops in town that cater to tourists, while others seek jobs in the surrounding cities. Virginia City draws over 2 million visitors per year and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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