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Eureka, Tintic Mining District, Juab county, UT
Mormon stockholders named the city Ruby Hallow, it was renamed Eureka around 1870. Eureka quickly become the center of Tintic Mining District. The mines produced gold, silver, lead and zinc. Once it was one of the top mining areas of Utah.
Eureka housed financial institutions, local and county governmental buildings, churches and an impressive post office. Once it had a population of around 3500 but today only 700 people live here. Most of the buildings of the historic Main St are abandoned and/or crumbling. There are some antique shops and grocery stores (some of them closed). Other places to visit are the log cabin of Porter Rockwell and the Tintic Mining Museum (open sporadically, call first!).
Eckley Miners’ Village educates the public about the story of anthracite coal mining along with patch towns and their residents through the preservation and exploration of the site and its collection.
Founded in 1854, Eckley is an example of a planned nineteenth century coal mining town. It is a community, or coal “patch town,” which provided mining families with the basic necessities such as housing and medical care, as well as basic amenities like a store, a school and churches. Companies often designed and constructed industrial communities to house their employees in close proximity to the collieries, or mining operations, for which they worked. Such mining towns were built to attract other mining families to live and work among the coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania. While the company greatly influenced the lives of its village residents, and each family member faced challenges and difficulties every day. The way in which they faced these challenges is the history of the region that is studied, preserved and interpreted.
Special to the Daily/David Gidley
On a recent ski-outing in the East Argentine Mining District, on the Clear Creek side of the Continental Divide, "Longboard" Willie Mane of Silver Plume searches for the next patch of snow to ski.
Stagecoach stop interior in the old silver and gold mining ghost town of Berlin in Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada, USA
The Ronchamp Coal Mines are coal mines in eastern France. They cover three municipalities Ronchamp, Champagney and Magny-Danigon. Operated for more than two centuries, from the mid-eighteenth century until the mid-twentieth century, they have profoundly changed the landscape, the economy and the local population.
Mining began in Ronchamp in the mid-18th century and had developed into a large industry by the late 19th century, employing 1500 people.
The sculpture on top of the stone pillar and the plaques which adorn each of its six sides were created by blacksmith Jim Plant from a single piece of copper. He told The Stoke Sentinel:
“When I received the inquiry, my first thought was to utilise old equipment lying around the mine, but anything is either long gone or buried deep... I considered all kinds of designs and took inspiration from all sorts of books and photographs” (“Town Craftsman In Tribute To Miners Killed In Disaster”, 17 July 2009)
Presumably it was in one of these books that Mr Plant came across the design for the masthead of The Miner's Advocate, journal of the Miners' Association of Great Britain and Ireland from 1843 to 1849.
His other commissions have included a coat of arms and railings for Alton Castle in Staffordshire.
Handmade 9 inch (230mm) penstock or gate valve used for controlling water flow through a pipe column in local tin mining operations.
Circa 1930.
Photographed at the Battery Hill Mine Museum. Tennant Creek has a rich history as a gold mining centre. Here was found one of the richest gold bearing seams ever mined in the world. Very remotely located in central Australian desert country, life was harsh for the people who lived here.
Cornwall - St Agnes.
Mining.
Cornwall, along with its neighbouring county of Devon, was an important source of tin for Europe and the Mediterranean throughout ancient times, but began dominating the market during late Roman times in the 3rd century AD with the exhaustion of many Spanish tin mines. Cornwall maintained its importance as a source of tin throughout medieval times and into the modern period.
At their height about 100 mines employed 1000 miners. Mining came to an end in the 1920s and many of these mines are still on view for tourists. United Hills mine produced 86,500 tons of copper ore, 1826–1906; and Wheal Towan 54,610 tons, 1800-31. Lesser quantities of black tin were produced from these mines: West Wheal Kitty 10,070 tons (1881–1915); Wheal Kitty 9,510 tons (1853–1918); Polberro 4,300 tons (1837–95); Penhalls 3,610 tons (1834–96); and Blue Hills 2,120 tons (1858–97). Much of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, a World Heritage Site, is in the parish. Tin production is still worked at the Blue Hills Tin Streams.
Wheal Coates was the site of medieval mining between 1066 and 1540, and it was a modern mining producer from 1802 and into the 20th century. The visible remains of Wheal Coates are the engine houses built in the 1870s to crush ore, run a Calciner, or pump water. The sites, owned by the National Trust, include the Whim Engine House, Towanroath Pumping Engine House and the Calciner. Before that the Jericho valley, where Blue Hills Tin Streams operated, had supported mining operations for centuries. At Chapel Coombe a set of old Cornish stamps has been re-erected by the Trevithick Society.