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The Mining Institute holds several runs of colliery newspapers including one of the few complete runs of Mining Journal which has proved to be a very useful publication for researchers.
Images(c) Sean Elliot
At night, Diwalwal is a sight to behold. By day, thousands of Filipinos struggle to survive in the gold-rush area. They have to contend not just with the extremely hard and dangerous work in the mines but with violence as well, as big mining interests seek to displace the small miners. (Davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
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.
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!).
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.
Arltunga Historical Reserve in the East MacDonnell Range in the desert country of the Northern Territory Australia.
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 Museum is run by a group of volunteers in a microgranite quarry at Threlkeld, with a Geology Room, Bookshop, Underground Experience, Gold Panning, Excavator Display, Engine House and Steam Engine, all there to enjoy together with the Quarry and the views. Also on offer are mine tours and mineral panning.
The quarry itself is a RIGS site and displays contacts between the “Skiddaw Slate” and the granite intrusion, as well as other fascinating features.
Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum have their own narrow gauge railway and “Sir Tom”, a steam locomotive, hauls passengers daily in the summer holidays and on other weekends. In quiet periods one of the collection of vintage classic diesel locos is used.