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In the metalliferous mines of Cornwall, some of the worst accidents were at East Wheal Rose in 1846, where 39 workers were killed by a sudden flood ; at Levant mine in 1919, where 31 were killed and many injured in a failure of the man engine ; 12 killed at Wheal Agar in 1883 when a cage fell down a shaft ; and seven killed at Dolcoath mine in 1893 when a large stull collapsed.
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Having gained a travelling scholarship he spent more than four years in Europe, Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt, paying great attention to mineralogy and mining, examining coal-fields, metalliferous mines and salt-works, and making acquaintance with many distinguished geologists and mineralogists.
Henwood soon took an active interest in the working of mines and in the metalliferous deposits.
In 1843 he went to take charge of the Gongo-Soco mines in Brazil ; afterwards he proceeded to India to report on certain metalliferous deposits for the Indian government ; and in 1858, impaired in health, he retired and settled at Penzance.
Through the amalgamation with the FEDFA, the division also has around 1, 500 members at metalliferous mines in Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland.
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His most important memoirs on the metalliferous deposits of Cornwall and Devon were published in 1843 by the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall.
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* The metalliferous hills: The Colline Metallifere ( literally, the metalliferous hills or the hills which produce metals ) have always been the industrious heart of the Maremma and some places still point to times when the life on these hills was much harder.
Many areas, mainly on Grand Terre have some very high concentrations of metalliferous rocks.
# Several petrological investigations such as ore petrological work on selected metalliferous deposits for unravelling the environment for ore-forming process, analysis of subsurface sediments and water in arsenic-affected areas to mitigate the arsenic pollution problem are some of the studies being pursued in the Department.
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* Metalliferous Mining: The Division covers most metalliferous miners in Broken Hill where silver, lead and zinc ores are mined.
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Industries covered by the Mining and Energy Division include the coal industry, coal ports, the metalliferous mining industry, electric power generation, oil and gas and the small coke industry.
Lodge also enlightens us as to the lesson learned by the Black Brothers becoming goldsmiths and Gluck's wish that the Golden River become a literal river of gold: " And the restoration of wealth to Treasure Valley, by restoring the fertility of its soil instead of by metalliferous undertakings, is entirely in harmony with the author's consistent teaching that all true material increase must come from the soil ".
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The reserve is public land and covers 10 % of the Island, and includes the old copper mine, believed to be the site of New Zealand's first underground metalliferous mining venture ( 1844 ).
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He was a man of wide knowledge and extensive research, and wrote memoirs on chemical and mineralogical subjects, on eruptive rocks, on the structure of the Jura, the metamorphism of the Western Alps, on the formation of oolitic limestones, on kaolinization and on metalliferous veins.
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Several types of sub-surface mining, and specifically methods which intentionally cause the extracted void to collapse ( such as pillar extraction, longwall mining and any metalliferous mining method which utilizes " caving " such as " block caving " or " sub-level caving ") will result in surface subsidence.
Later work in the 1960s confirmed the presence of hot, 60 ° C ( 140 ° F ), saline brines and associated metalliferous muds.
The zone of collision between the continental plates that led to the formation of the Wicklow Mountains also led to mineralisation and the formation of Ireland's most significant metalliferous belt.
In geology, a lode is a deposit of metalliferous ore that fills or is embedded in a fissure ( or crack ) in a rock formation or a vein of ore that is deposited or embedded between layers of rock.
Grand Terre has its own version of maquis ( maquis minier ) occurs on metalliferous soils, mostly in the south.
The mineral occurs in metalliferous veins with calcite, argentiferous galena, native silver, native arsenic, & c. The best crystallized specimens are from Sankt Andreasberg in the Harz, Freiberg in Saxony, and Guanajuato in Mexico.
He was distinguished for his extensive scientific and practical knowledge of metalliferous mining and stone quarrying.
Note that the King of the Golden River was imprisoned through " metalliferous undertakings.
Early in his career he travelled in the northern parts of Europe to study the metalliferous deposits, and he contributed the articles on geology, mineralogy, metallurgy and chemistry to Paul Gaimard's Voyages de la commission scientifique du Nord de la Scandinavie, en Laponie, au Spitlberg et aux Feroe, pendant les annes 1838-1840.
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From March to August 1595 Oxford actively importuned the Queen, in competition with Lord Buckhurst, to farm the tin mines in Cornwall.
The Wealden ironworking zone, the lead and silver mines of the Mendip Hills and the tin mines of Cornwall seem to have been private enterprises leased from the government for a fee.
The design was commercially successful, and for the next five years Watt was very busy installing more engines, mostly in Cornwall for pumping water out of mines.
After participating in crucial early battles on the rivers Medway and Thames, he was sent to reduce the south west, penetrating through the modern counties of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall with the probable objectives of securing the south coast ports and harbours along with the tin mines of Cornwall and the silver and lead mines of Somerset.
The office of Lord Warden of the Stannaries is also introduced to tax the produce of tin mines in Cornwall and Devon.
Modern speculation initiated by Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Cornwall ( 1899 ) makes of him a tin merchant, whose connection with Britain came by the abundant tin mines of Cornwall.
Chapin Mine Steam Pump Engine ( Cornish Pump ) was patterned after the ones used in Cornwall in the deep tin mines.
The village of Brickerville dates from 1741, when the area's first blast furnace was built to make cast iron from ore from the Cornwall mines.
Although its first use was in coal-mining areas, Newcomen's engine was also used for pumping water out of the metal mines in his native West Country, such as the tin mines of Cornwall.
The greater fuel efficiency of their engines meant that they were most attractive in areas where fuel was expensive, particularly Cornwall, for which three engines were ordered in 1777, for the Wheal Busy, Ting Tang, and Chacewater mines.
In the tin mines of Devon and Cornwall, pasties were associated with " knockers ", spirits said to create a knocking sound that was either supposed to indicate the location of rich veins of ore, or to warn of an impending tunnel collapse.
Adits were in use in Cornwall well before 1500 and were particularly important to the tin and copper mines in Cornwall and Devon because the ore-bearing veins here are near-vertical and act as channels through which water can easily seep.
* Great County Adit, a system of nearly of adits used for dewatering the mines in the Gwennap area of Cornwall in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
In 1669 he was awarded a 31 year lease on all tin mines in Rialton and Retraigh in Cornwall.
The fountain was given to the town by Michael Loam, whose father ( also called Michael Loam ) invented the Man engine ( a device for lifting men up and down mineshafts, and used in many mines throughout Cornwall & West Devon ).
Tin mining once played an important part in the economy of Penwith, with mines across the district including Levant, Botallack, Cape Cornwall, Ding Dong and Wheal Hope to name a few.
The Cornish took over mines abandoned by the Spanish, bringing 1, 500 tones of more modern equipment from Cornwall.
William ’ s Town had been a primitive settlement until the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s, but after the gold seekers began to arrive, many from the tin mines of Cornwall, and many more from the Californian gold fields, the settlement ’ s growth was phenomenal.
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In the Middle Bronze Age an apparently " alphabetic " system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script is thought by some to have been developed in the Sinai peninsula during the 19th century BC, by Canaanite workers in the Egyptian turquoise mines.
Although his work has been criticized for the lack of candor in checking the " facts ", some of his text has been confirmed by recent research, like the spectacular remains of Roman gold mines in Spain, especially at Las Medulas, which Pliny probably saw in operation while a Procurator there a few years before he compiled the encyclopedia.
Recently, improvements in technology and increases in mineral prices have led to some mines being reopened, such as the lead and zinc mine at Maarmorilik and the gold mine at Nalunaq.
U. S. and Cuban troops placed some 55, 000 land mines across the " no man's land " around the perimeter of the naval base creating the second-largest minefield in the world, and the largest in the Western Hemisphere.
In the 17th and 18th there was some production of iron in Kalmar County, totalling about 10 mines ; of those 2 were located to the municipality of Hultsfred.
In 2008 some Zimbabwean lawyers and opposition politicians from Mutare claimed that Shiri was the prime mover behind the military assaults on illegal diggers in the diamond mines in the east of Zimbabwe.
Reports were written detailing some of the abuses, particularly in the coal mines and textile factories and these helped to popularise the children's plight.
They did not encounter any significant resistance save for some bridges destroyed and some land mines, since the majority of the Luxembourgish Volunteer Corps stayed in their barracks.
There is a degree of overlap between the function of a boobytrap and an anti-handling device insofar as some mines have optional fuze pockets into which standard pull or pressure-release boobytrap firing devices can be screwed.
Alternatively, some mines may mimic a standard design, but actually be specifically intended to kill deminers e. g. the MC-3 and PMN-3 variants of the PMN mine.
In some engagements during World War II, anti-tank mines accounted for half of all vehicles disabled.
Many examples of such devices have been found in old Roman mines and some examples are now preserved in the British Museum and the National Museum of Wales.
In some cases, additional forest logging is done in the vicinity of mines to increase the available room for the storage of the created debris and soil.
They can be inexpensive: some variants can cost as little as US $ 1000, though more sophisticated mines can cost millions of dollars, be equipped with several kinds of sensors, and deliver a warhead by rocket or torpedo.
It is possible for some of these 1940s-era mines to remain dangerous for many years to come.
The deployment of these new underwater weapons resulted in only 1 battleship, but 2 armored cruisers and 2 destroyers being sunk in action ; with the remainder of the 80 some odd warships being sunk by the more conventional methods of gunfire, mines, and scuttling.
Expatriates, mostly British or South African, as well as some white Zambian citizens ( about 120, 000 ), live mainly in Lusaka and in the Copperbelt in northern Zambia, where they are either employed in mines, financial and related activities or retired.
Thus, some have argued, as time passes, these deep storage areas have the potential to become " plutonium mines ", from which material for nuclear weapons can be acquired with relatively little difficulty.
In Europe, some of the best toolmaking flint has come from Belgium ( Obourg, flint mines of Spiennes ), the coastal chalks of the English Channel, the Paris Basin, Thy in Jutland ( flint mine at Hov ), the Sennonian deposits of Rügen, Grimes Graves in England, the Upper Cretaceous chalk formation of Dobruja and the lower Danube ( Balkan flint ), the Cenomanian chalky marl formation of the Moldavian Plateau ( Miorcani flint ) and the Jurassic deposits of the Kraków area and Krzemionki in Poland.
These subsequently decay into muons, which are able to reach the surface of the Earth, and even penetrate for some distance into shallow mines.
Only activities associated with a dynamic exporting centre enjoyed some degree of prosperity, as occurred in Tucuman, where cloth was manufactured, and in Córdoba and the Litoral, where livestock was raised to supply the mines of Upper Peru.
The concentrated area of large gold mines surrounding the original Hannan find is often referred to as the Golden Mile, and is considered by some to be the richest square mile of earth on the planet.
Traditionally, pitmatic, together with some rural Northumbrian communities including Rothbury, used a guttural R. This is now less frequently heard ; since the closure of the area's deep mines, many younger people speak in local ways that do not usually include this characteristic.
Mineral explorations lead Renault and La Motte to the area, and some of the very earliest lead mines were named for La Motte in nearby Madison County.
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