Saltom Pit was the first pit to be sunk beneath the sea.

At Saltom pit, Carlisle Spedding pioneered the use of explosives in sinking shafts.

Coal excavated from Saltom Pit was raised by horse gin to surface, then transported by tram through a tunnel to Ravenhill pit for lifting to the cliff top.

During 2007, Copeland Council declared that it could no longer afford to maintain the remaining Saltom Pit buildings, and decided to allow the pit to fall to the mercy of the Irish Sea.

Saltom Pit ceased working coal in 1848, but today it is a Scheduled Ancient Monument ( SM 27801 ) and is the best known surviving example of an eighteenth century colliery layout.

Saltom Pit was used as a central pumping station, draining many of the other local mines via a drift driven in the 1790s, and continued in use long after it had ceased to work coal.

The Lowthers ' technological advances continued when their chief steward, Carlisle Spedding sunk Saltom Pit in 1729.

Saltom Pit was constructed around 6m above sea level, on land below the cliffs near to Haig Colliery.

They teamed up with the National Trust in an endeavour to save Saltom Pit, and obtained the necessary funding from various sources, including a 50 % grant from the European Union.

On Monday 8 December 2007, Saltom Pit was reopened as an historic monument.

The earliest ancient monument is a Bronze Age ring ditch and possible burial pit.

The early and middle Eocene genus Eogliravus represents the earliest and most primitive glirid taxon ; the oldest species, Eogliravus wildi, is known from isolated teeth from the early Eocene of France and a complete specimen of the early middle Eocene of the Messel pit in Germany.

The earliest Mycenaean burials were mostly in individual graves in the form of a pit or a stone lined cist and offerings were limited to pottery and occasional items of jewellery.

The earliest evidence of human occupation in Hertfordshire come from a gravel pit in Rickmansworth.

The term pit bull is used in reference to multiple breeds of dog, namely, the American Pit Bull Terrier, the American Staffordshire Terrier, and crosses between the two.

The first is ' the stone pit ' from the Celtic meyn and dyppa in reference to the collapsed cave systems of Cheddar.

No such discoloration was found in the third aligned test pit, or in a smaller pit dug without reference to the Tower columns.

The discovery of winnable coal seams is mentioned in 1556, referred to as " Beds of cinders or coke ... have been discovered three feet thick " during the digging of a clay pit and commonly is attributed to the Eltonhead family ( Elton Head Road, modern B5204, shares the name of the family ) whilst reference to the significant distribution of " potsherds " during excavation suggest that some light industry had been under way for some time prior ( suggested to date back to the 13th Century ) and the clay and pottery industries lasted in the area through to the early 20th Century.

Throughout the episode Cartman plays a game he calls ' Lambs ' involving placing one of his dolls in a pit in his basement and torturing her telling the doll " It puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again " as a reference to Silence of the Lambs.

They were extremely inefficient by modern standards, but when located where coal was cheap at pit heads, opened up a great expansion in coal mining by allowing mines to go deeper.

In 2004, French officials decided to build a satellite museum on the site of an abandoned coal pit in the former mining town of Lens to relieve the crowded Paris Louvre, increase total museum visits, and improve the industrial north's economy.

Techniques of surface mining include ; Open-pit mining which consists of recovery of materials from an open pit in the ground, quarrying or gathering building materials from an open pit mine, strip mining which consists of stripping surface layers off to reveal ore / seams underneath, and mountaintop removal, commonly associated with coal mining, which involves taking the top of a mountain off to reach ore deposits at depth.

Smith's father, Kenneth, was born in Tow Law, County Durham, and worked at a coal mine during the Second World War looking after the pit ponies.

What is called the lower road from Bath to Wells goes through High Littleton but Rugburn old house is a quarter of a mile east of the village and about half way between it and Mearns coal pit.

The mining is open pit strip mining, where draglines remove soil above the layer of bituminous coal from the Fort Union Formation.

The winter of 1877 came early and was very severe, stranding the miners in the coal pit and keeping them snowbound until the following February.

In 1950, the operation converted to strip mining and became the world's largest open pit coal mine.

The first records of coal mining in Batley date back to the 16th century at White Lee ; the last pit in the town closed in 1973.

There are also signs of dissatisfaction and resentment of the Tevershall coal pit ’ s workers, the colliers, against Clifford, who owned the mines.

By the time Clifford and Connie had moved to Wragby Hall, Clifford's father's estate in Nottinghamshire, the coal industry in England seemed to be in decline, although the coal pit was still a big part in the life of the neighbouring town of Tevershall.

The pit survived Britain's pit closure programme in the mid-1980s that followed the miners ' strike, but ran out of viable coal seams.

The district has rich lignite ( brown coal ) deposits, which is used in open pit mining.

He did not take the Eleven plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School ( now called the Elmhirst School ), leaving at 15 to become a coal miner at Woolley Colliery from 1953, where he became the pit delegate ten years later.

In the southern part of the district are big open pit Lignite ( brown coal ) mines.

The next day, pickets from the Yorkshire area appeared at pits in the Nottinghamshire coal field ( one of those least threatened by pit closures ).

For example, some western U. S. coal that occur at depths in excess of 200 ft ( 60 m ) are mined by the open pit methods, due to thickness of the seam 60 – 90 feet ( 20 – 30 m ).

Although there are open pit mining operations working on coal seams up to 1000 – 1500 feet ( 300 – 450 m ) below ground level, for instance Tagebau Hambach in Germany.

When coal seams are near the surface, it may be economical to extract the coal using open cut ( also referred to as open cast, open pit, or strip ) mining methods.

Firedamp explosions can trigger the much more dangerous coal dust explosions, which can engulf an entire pit.

Chuquicamata, Chile, site of the largest circumference and second deepest open-pit mining | open pit copper mine in the world.

The old underground mines are exhausted, but open pit mining has operated since 1994 east of Cripple Creek, near its sister city of Victor, Colorado.

" Chicken Bill " Lovell dumped a wheelbarrow of rich silver ore into a barren pit on his Chrysolite mining claim in order to sell the claim to Horace Tabor for a large price.

The mining was both open – pit and underground, and concentrated on the numerous karst hosted calamine deposits for lead and silver although there was also minor exploitation of gold and copper.

Conventional open pit mining techniques are used to mine natural zeolites.

The deposit is essentially flat-lying at the surface, making open pit mining the extraction method of choice.

In 1917, open pit mining was successfully introduced to meet the heavy copper demand due to World War I.

This copper mine does open pit mining and currently runs on an around-the-clock schedule.

This prompted the phasing out of underground mining in favor of open pit mining at the United Verde.

Several smaller lakes within the city were created by gravel pit mining or as stormwater retention areas.

Originally, the mining was an open pit operation since there was an abundance of iron ore on the surface.

Gilbert is also the location of Lake Ore-be-gone, a former mining pit now used for fishing.

Open pit strip mining with Draglines at Colstrip's Rosebud Mine