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Underground mining developed in the 19th Century, but the stone trade declined in the 20th Century stopping in the 1960s.
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Underground and mining
Underground mining was described in this account, although it cannot be determined when it had started.
Schematic of a Underground mining ( hard rock ) | cut and fill mining operation in hard rock.
Underground longwall mining.
Underground hard rock mining refers to various underground mining techniques used to excavate hard minerals, mainly those containing metals such as ore containing gold, silver, iron, copper, zinc, nickel, tin and lead, but also involves using the same techniques for excavating ores of gems such as diamonds.
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Underground coal mining commenced around 1899 by the Seattle and San Francisco Railway and Navigation Company, although coal had been mined in nearby Danville and Landsburg a few years earlier.
* NORCAT's Underground Mine Centre ( Fecunis Adit ), used for underground training and mining technology development in Onaping, ON, Canada
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* Underground mining equipment
Underground mining continued sporadically until 1922, when the last of the pumps was shut off causing the mines to flood.
Underground coal mining brings with it the problem of subsidence.
Underground mining ceased in Snailbeach in 1955.
Underground mining began with the Day Dawn mine in 1931 ; a number of similar operations were opened before and after the Second World War.
Underground mining methods are used for the Korobkovskoye deposit.
Now it is mainly a tourist destination and home to the Kimberley Alpine Resort, a ski area and the Kimberley Underground Mining Railway that features a underground mining interpretive centre.
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Underground mining in the area was begun in 1890, and Daniel C. Jackling and Robert C. Gemmell, both engineers, examined Wall's properties and recommended open-pit mining.
Category: Underground mining
Category: Underground mining
* Underground mining ( hard rock )
* Underground mining ( hard rock )
Underground and developed
The Underground railway system had been developed and was owned by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) and the Metropolitan Railway.
Most of Kew developed in the late 19th century, following the arrival of the District Line of the Underground, and is characterised by large detached or semi-detached houses.
Drawing on local influences such as The Velvet Underground, Richard Hell and the New York Dolls, punk music developed at clubs such as CBGB and Max's Kansas City.
The southern section, roughly from Circle Gardens southwards, was developed in the 1920s and 1930s, stimulated by the opening of the London Underground station at Morden.
Isolated from the country's main punk scene in Auckland ( which had been influenced by bands such as England's Buzzcocks ), Dunedin's punk groups-such as The Enemy ( which became Toy Love ) and The Same ( which later developed into The Chills ) developed a sound more heavily influenced by artists like The Velvet Underground and The Stooges.
" However, as in " Underground Press ", the term developed as a metaphorical reference to a clandestine and subversive culture beneath the legitimate and official media.
Family ties to the Abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad, the harsh and unrelenting poverty that she grew up in, and being named after the philosopher Voltaire all contributed to the radical rhetoric that she developed shortly after adolescence.
Need for Speed: Underground ( NFSU or NFSUG ) is the seventh racing game in the Need for Speed video game series developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts in 2003.
* Evo ( tube train ), a new concept of tube train being developed by London Underground
Variations of this system are also in use on many rapid transit systems, including the MBTA Red Line, London Underground Victoria Line, and form the basis for the first generation Shinkansen signalling developed by Japan National Railways ( JNR ).
Need for Speed: Underground 2 ( NFSU2 or NFSUG2 ) is a cross-platform racing video game and the eight installment of popular driving game Need For Speed published and developed by Electronic Arts.
Because of this, an informal network of safe houses and escape routes — called the Underground Railroad -- developed across the United States to get enslaved people out of America and into Canada or the free states.
The general approach was intended to parallel that being developed on the east coast by Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground.
Pool Shark 2 is a video game which was developed by Blade Interactive as a sequel to Pool Shark ( a. k. a. Actua Pool and Underground Pool ).
Underground acts like Shawn Lane and Buckethead continued to developed the genre further.
Underground and 19th
* Conductor ( underground railroad ), an operative of the Underground Railroad of the 19th century United States helping move slaves to freedom
This part of New York was in the so-called " Burnt Over District ," which earlier in the 19th century had generated much religious excitement, including the beginnings of Mormonism, and social causes, such as abolitionism and support for the Underground Railroad.
* The Underground Railroad, a network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the 19th century United States attempted to escape
While an " underground railroad " running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.
Created in the early 19th century, the Underground Railroad was at its height between 1850 and 1860.
A major location on the Underground Railroad in the middle 19th century, the city today is a major coal port on Lake Erie at the mouth of the Ashtabula River northeast of Cleveland.
Another notable part of Portsmouth's history in the 19th century was its importance on the Underground Railroad.
Essex County was also a destination of the Underground Railroad by which African slaves in the 19th century United States escaped to freedom.
During the 19th century, the area was part of the Underground Railroad.
The Main Street of Elbridge ( Route 5 ) is lined with beautiful 19th century homes, including at least one that is said to have been a station on the Underground Railroad and the Wayside Inn.
The station is one of the few remaining 19th century stations on the North London Line and had one of the last illuminated banner signals on the London Underground, possibly because of the footbridge.
The Fort Erie area became significant as the major terminus in Canada for slaves using the Underground Railroad in the middle of the 19th century, many of whom crossed into Canada from Buffalo, New York.
Safe houses were an integral part of the Underground Railroad, the network of safe house locations that were used to assist slaves in escaping to the primarily northern free states in the 19th century United States.
) This area was part of the " Burned-over district ," which earlier in the 19th century had generated much religious excitement, including the formation of the Mormon movement, and social causes, such as abolitionism and support for the Underground Railroad.
In the 19th century Arva was a critical rest stop on the Underground Railroad, and home to several homes constructed as part of the Railroad.
Built in 1846, it was formerly the northernmost U. S. stop on the Connecticut River route of the 19th century Underground Railroad, and is registered as an historic example of Neo-Palladian temple-form design.
Similar to the Underground Railroad of 19th century America that saved over 30, 000 slaves, the modern day underground railroad comprises a network of safe houses and escape routes from North Korea to China, Mongolia, Russia and Southeast Asia.
In search for food, work and freedom, up to 300, 000 North Koreans have fled to neighboring China through a network of shelters and escape routes, similar to the Underground Railroad of 19th century America.
* Underground water-supply system ( 19th century )- village Kolkhalafli.
The May 19th Communist Organization ( also variously referred to as the May 19 Coalition, May 19 Communist Coalition, and various alternatives of M19CO ), was a US-based, self-described revolutionary organization formed by members of the Weather Underground Organization.
As early as the first decade of the 19th century, individual dissatisfaction with the law of 1793 had taken the form of systematic assistance rendered to African Americans escaping from the South to Canada or New England: the so-called Underground Railroad.
Several of the 19th century homes, especially those along Davis Avenue, were part of the Underground Railroad and have remnants such as hiding places.
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