Miners operating a hydraulic sluice at San Francisquito Canyon ( c. 1890-1900 ).

Miners working a sluice on Lucky Gulch, AlaskaThe same principle may be employed on a larger scale by constructing a short sluice box, with barriers along the bottom called riffles to trap the heavier gold particles as water washes them and the other material along the box.

Miners working a small sluice on Lucky Gulch, Alaska

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

Since the San Antonio club that was also supposed to be a part of the 1993 expansion had folded, the Gold Miners were the only American team in the CFL during the 1993 season.

Roye replaced Youngblood as TV analyst in 1994 and former San Francisco Giants announcer David Glass became the Miners ' radio play-by-play announcer.

Following the 1994 season, the Posse folded while the Gold Miners moved to San Antonio and became the Texans.

San Antonio folded prior to the season but the Sacramento Gold Miners did play in the CFL for three years, starting the CFL USA initiative created in the wake of the WLAF's suspension.

In its inaugural season, the league was composed of eight teams: the Chico Outlaws, Fullerton Flyers, Long Beach Armada and San Diego Surf Dawgs in California ; Mesa Miners, Surprise Fightin ' Falcons and Yuma Scorpions in Arizona and the Japan Samurai Bears.

After the formation of the Golden Baseball League in 2004, Chico was granted one of the eight original charter teams in the league along with the Fullerton Flyers, Long Beach Armada and San Diego Surf Dawgs in California ; Mesa Miners, Surprise Fightin ' Falcons and Yuma Scorpions in Arizona and a traveling team the Japan Samurai Bears.

The team was one of the original eight GBL charter teams that began play in 2005 along with the Chico Outlaws, Fullerton Flyers and San Diego Surf Dawgs in California ; Mesa Miners, Surprise Fightin ' Falcons and Yuma Scorpions in Arizona and the traveling Japan Samurai Bears.

They played along side the Bisbee Miners and San Diego Surf Dawgs.

The then Yuma Scorpions were one of the Golden Baseball League charter members in 2005 along with the Chico Outlaws, Fullerton Flyers, Long Beach Armada and San Diego Surf Dawgs in California ; Mesa Miners and Surprise Fightin ' Falcons in Arizona and the Japan Samurai Bears, the league's first ( and so far only ) traveling team.

The Miners started as one of eight charter teams in the GBL along with the Chico Outlaws, Fullerton Flyers, Long Beach Armada and San Diego Surf Dawgs in California, the Surprise Fightin ' Falcons and Yuma Scorpions in Arizona and a traveling team, the Japan Samurai Bears that began play in May 2005.

The Samurai Bears were one of eight charter teams in the Golden Baseball League that began play in 2005 joining the likes of the Chico Outlaws, Fullerton Flyers, Long Beach Armada and San Diego Surf Dawgs of California ; the Mesa Miners, Surprise Fightin ' Falcons and Yuma Scorpions of Arizona.

The Fightin ' Falcons started as one of eight charter teams in the GBL along with the Chico Outlaws, Fullerton Flyers, Long Beach Armada and San Diego Surf Dawgs in California, the Mesa Miners and Yuma Scorpions in Arizona and a traveling team, the Japan Samurai Bears that began play in May 2005.

( The San Antonio Texans name would later be used for the aforementioned Gold Miners when they moved to San Antonio in 1995.

* Sacramento Gold Miners ( defunct ) – The first entry in the league's failed attempt to expand into the U. S. After the 1994 season, the team relocated to San Antonio and played as the San Antonio Texans before folding after the 1995 season.

Frank began his pro career with the Orlando Thunder of the WLAF ( in 1992 ), and then two Canadian Football League teams, in 1994 with the Sacramento Gold Miners, and in 1995 with the San Antonio Texans.

Miners residing at the mouth of Gold Canyon noted Colonel Reese and his party passing along the Carson River as they headed for the Sierra foothills to establish Mormon Station, later called Genoa.

Miners bound for the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in British Columbia in 1858 using the Okanagan Trail travelled under arms and there were many instances of violence along the route.

* Derrick Caracter ( born 1988 ), played power forward / center formerly for the Louisville Cardinals basketball team, then the University of Texas at El Paso ( UTEP ) Miners basketball team, current member of NBA's Los Angeles Lakers.

* Derrick Caracter ( born 1988 ), power forward / center for the University of Texas-El Paso Miners team who was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2010 NBA Draft.

* 1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull, human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.

In 2007, the East Kentucky Miners came to Pike County after the opening of the Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center.

The rich mining history of the town was highlighted in the 2000 blockbuster film Billy Elliot which was set during the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ) in the fictional County Durham town of ' Everington ', but which displayed characteristics particular to East Durham pit communities such as Seaham and Easington Colliery – both towns feature as locations in the film, notably Dawdon Miners ' Club, into which Billy's dad runs when he learns his son has won an audition at dance school.

In 1910 he became branch secretary of the Yorkshire Miners ' Association and was elected to Hoyland UDC for the Elsecar ward in 1912 and to the West Riding County Council in 1921.

Miners flocked to Murton from across County Durham and Northumberland in the early years, with people later uprooting from Devon, Cornwall and Ireland too.

While maintaining a position against white supremacy, the Party made special efforts to organize black miners in the strikes its National Miners Union led in western Pennsylvania in 1928 at the same time as leading strikes of ( nearly exclusively ) white textile workers in the Carolinas and Georgia in 1929 and coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1931.

A section of H-13 in Alger County originally continued north to Miners Castle, but the roadway designation was truncated in the first decade of the 21st century.

Blackwood Miners Institute is described by Caerphilly County Borough Council as the Heart of the Community, from its inception in 1925 as Snooker Hall to its current Multi Entertainment Venue it sits at the heart of the town's event programme and is known locally as " The ' stute ".

At that time Blackwell Miners Welfare possessed a first class playing surface and was one of the grounds frequently used by Derbyshire CCC for County Championship fixtures.

Other notable coal mining songs include Jean Ritchie's " The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore ," Sarah Gunning's " Come All You Coal Miners ," and Hazel Dickens ' " Clay County Miner.

He tramped out of the Miners Rest with his hopes plummeting, and headed doggedly for the Palace Saloon, the last place of any consequence on this side of the street.

William Davis Miners ' Memorial Day is celebrated in coal mining towns to commemorate the deaths of miners at the hands of the coal companies.

* Early Day Miners, a U. S. band

* 1894 – The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.

* Fife mining museum, formed 1992, is located in Kinglassie at the back of the Kinglassie Miners Welfare Institute but has recently closed.

Miners at the Tamarack mine | Tamarack Mine in Copper Country, Michigan, U. S. in 1905.

Miners utilize equipment strong enough to break through extremely hard layers of the Earth's crust.

" Maggie Out " was a chant popular during the Miners ' Strike, student grant protests, Poll Tax protests and other public demonstrations that fell within the time when Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The Larks produced a track called " Maggie, Maggie, Maggie ( Out, Out, Out )" which was included on the Miners ’ Benefit LP “ Here We Go ” on Sterile Records.

* N. J. Miners, ‘ The Nigerian Army 1956 – 66 ,’ Methuen and Co. Ltd, London, 1971

" Punk eek, Transitional Forms &# 151 ; and Quote Miners.

Horrible Treatment of the Laborers by the Miners.

A number of independent unions, which emerged during 1992, among them the Independent Union of Miners of Ukraine, have formed the Consultative Council of Free Labor Unions.

* December 26 – Miners strike in Borinage, Belgium.

* March 19 – The Texas Western Miners defeat the Kentucky Wildcats with 5 African-American starters, ushering in desegregation in athletic recruiting.

* 1894: Cripple Creek miners ' strike, a five-month strike by the Western Federation of Miners ( WFM ) in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.

Once the new changes went into effect, they affiliated with the Western Federation of Miners, and became Local 19.

* 1894: The Bituminous Coal Miners ' Strike, an unsuccessful national eight-week strike by miners of hard coal in the United States, which began on April 21, 1894.

* 1896 – 1897: Leadville Colorado, Miners ' Strike.