Located to the west-northwest of the mines is a collection of miners' cottages, marked on historic Ordnance Survey maps as the settlement of Craigton. ... "Mines in Scotland", in Alan L Jeffreys, a revised re-publication of the Glasgow Speleological Society Journal, volume 1, part 4. Kinna, J. (1904). History of the Parish of Minnigaff. Dumfries.
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In a paper read to the Royal Scottish Society of Arts in 1864 Dr. David Landale, an eminent mining engineer of that time, made some pungent criticism of this policy. "In the Wishaw district for instance," he writes, "landlords having a fine seam with a railway alongside divide their fields into patches of 100 acres which they let at £1,000 a ...
Scottish Mining Website (list of collieries) 1860: Scottish Mining Website (list of collieries) 1866: Scottish Mining Website (list of collieries) 1869: Coal Mining History Resource Centre: 1873: Scottish Mining Website Part 1 - Argyllshire, …
Netherwood Colliery is a mine in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Mapcarta, the open map. Britain and Ireland . UK. Scotland. North Lanarkshire. Netherwood Colliery ... 3,000 feet northwest; Kelvinhead, Kelvinhead Road at Glenview Bus stop, 3,000 feet northwest; Old Pit Bing 3,200 feet southwest; Popular Destinations in Scotland. Discover Edinburgh ...
Scottish Mining Website . Mines In Scotland In 1873. Lanarkshire H-Z: Name of Mine or Colliery: Name of Pit: Where Situated: Owner or Company: Owners Postal Address: Type: Manager: Name of seam & its thickness: Mode of working/notes: District: Hallcraig: No 1: Carluke: Coltness Iron Co... Ironstone-Seven feet/Three feet/ Five feet: Long wall ...
Buying and selling. Impala Platinum is selling its 65% share in Impala Chrome, and extraction business which is located in Rustenburg.. The Evraz Group has sold ith 78,8% in Brits-based Vametco, a mine and plant that produces vanadium. Bushveld Minerals, which is listed on the Alternative Investment Market in London, is the buyer. Rustenburg Platinum Mines Limited …
The museum has the only underground mine tour in Scotland, allowing visitors to venture into the confines of a 300-year-old timbered passage and drift. Tours last around 45 minutes, with helmets ...
The deal is centered on the development, construction and operation of a lithium carbonite mining operation called Thacker Pass in Humboldt County, Nevada.
The mine lies 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Aberfeldy, to the south of Loch Tummel, on the slopes of Meall Tairneachan. [Gazetteer for Scotland] Alternate Names: None recorded. Notes: See also Duntalich Mine. Schlumberger the company which operated at Foss have moved production to a new site southwest of Meall nan Uan. They extract Barytes which ...
The Tharisa mine is located 35km east of Rustenburg and 120km north-west of Johannesburg. The mining licence for the property encompasses an area of 5,475ha in the southwestern limb of the PGM, chromium and …
The Great Caledonian Forest once covered much of Scotland, below the high tops; Caledonia – the Roman name for Scotland – means wooded heights. The forest declined over thousands of years, due to both a …
Discover 180 years of mining history. Find out about the people and communities at the heart of the industry and uncover how the miners lived at work and play. Explore acres of woodland, spotting plants and wildlife and find out how the excess water from the mine is cleaned and pumped back into a local river. Then let off some steam in our ...
From the gemstones of the Cairngorms to the important natural resources extracted from historic mining sites across the country, you'll explore Scotland's rich mineralogical heritage. Join Dr Rachel Walcott as she leads you through a journey featuring glittering galena, curious calcite, spectacular sphalerite and many other intriguing minerals.
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Welcome to the Scottish Mining Website. The Scottish Mining Website provides information on the history of Scottish mining, compiled from old reports, gazetteers and newspaper articles. The site includes information on all aspects of life in mining towns and villages from working conditions, accidents and strikes to housing, health and leisure.
Lochgelly Iron and Coal Company 1847-1953 (CB2) Lothian Coal Company 1741-1919 (CB9) Niddrie and Benhar Coal Company Ltd 1880-1937 (CB18) Shotts Iron Company Ltd 1871-1946 (CB21) Accidents in mines are investigated through a public inquiry held by the Home Office. …
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The owners of Scotland's only goldmine have called in administrators after falling into financial difficulty. Scotgold Resources, which operates the Cononish mine near Tyndrum, announced the move ...
THE NON-FERROUS MINES OF SOUTH-WEST SCOTLAND INTRODUCTION The south-west of Scotland is a somewhat remote part of the country, noted more for its agriculture and scenery than for its industries. It has never been of great importance as a centre of mining, nevertheless the scattered occurrences of metalliferous ores that have been worked from ...
Most of the Scottish oil-shale mines closed between the wars, but a few survived until around 1962 when they too closed in the face of cheaper imported oil from Arabia. The industry's legacy was a spread of large, burnt-shale heaps, or bings, which dominated the landscape. Many have since been quarried for use as road sub-base etc, but the ...
We are currently adding further names obtained from the registers of Fatal Accident Inquiries held at the National Archives of Scotland. These registers contain all sudden and accidental deaths in Scotland, not just those by mining so this is an extensive task. The books do not list the dates of accidents, only the date of the inquiry.
When the coal industry was nationalised in 1947, there were 225 collieries in Scotland; now there are none. The last six pits to close were Killoch (1989), Bilston Glen (1989), Barony (1989), Frances (1995), Monktonhall (1998) & Longannet (2002) Collieries after Nationalisation in 1947 Dates in brackets indicate the date...
Coal mining is probably Scotland's oldest major industry. Mines on monastic estates, such as Carriden and Preston, are mentioned in early charters. For the later period customs accounts reveal shipments of coal for foreign markets. Coal was never a leading Scottish export but it has been estimated that by the 1680s one in every two vessels ...
Scottish Coalfields Pits. Pits of Scotland. Mining Methods and Geology. ... Pits of The North West. Scottish Coalfields Pits. Pits of Yorkshire. Pits of The North East. ... Mines Rescue And First Aid. Lost Mates. History and Monuments. Mining History, Caving etc.
Scottish Network for Nineteenth-Century European Cultures; Boyne to Brodgar: Making Monuments, Creating Communities ... Another bun ingot was found in 1880 at Carleton some 5km north west of Tonderghie. These ingots suggest the exploitation of a local ore source and Tonderghie, as the only copper vein in the immediate area, is the most likely ...
South-West Scotland Mines. This is an interactive map, point to and click on an area with your mouse to be taken to a page with further details. Dispersed deposits of copper, lead and zinc ores were worked in Galloway near Carsphairn, between Newton Stewart and Gatehouse of Fleet, and around Dalbeattie. The last of these areas also produced ...
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226 rowsCoal News, January 1995 – to be closed. Sunk 1948. Sunk 1957. Sunk 1880. Included Castlehill and Solsgirth. Sunk 1964 and closed by Scottish Coal. Sunk 1953. Sinking in 1964. Coal News, April 1993 – taken over by a …
Thus, in 1862, the oil-shale mining industry began. Large refineries were built, where the shale was heated in retorts to release the hydro-carbon content. Most of the Scottish oil-shale mines closed between the wars, but a few survived …
The Almond Valley Heritage Trust is a charity registered in Scotland No. SC13708, and a Scottish Company limited by guarantee, No. 089429, with Registered Office at Almond Valley Heritage Centre, Millfield, Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 7AR. Accredited Museum 151, holding a collection of National significance to Scotland.
The largest quantity ever consumed in Scotland in one year was 532,000 tons, in 1865. In 1867, the quantity taken was 420,262 tons. The make of malleable iron in 1867 was 142,800 tons, being a reduction of 11,400 tons as compared with 1866. The rapid development of the iron trade has not been peculiar to Scotland.
Pibble mine, Creetown, Dumfries and Galloway NGR: NX 528 604. Pibble mine is a short-lived nineteenth century copper and lead mine in the hills above Creetown. It was worked by the Creetown Copper and Lead Mining Company …
Another opencast mine that became derelict in 2013 following Scottish Coal's liquidation. A separate 138.29 hectare Benbain Remainder site is the 12th largest site in the 2018 land survey. East Ayrshire Council said the former mining complex had returned to Forestry and Land Scotland but was working with the agency to regenerate it. With the ...
The industry was becoming increasingly important in the sixteen hundreds, and as such, many more coal mines were opening all over Scotland. This led to a shortage of skilled and experienced employees to work in the mines. Consequently, many workers would leave their original mines to work in these newly opened pits. This led to huge competition ...
West Lothian, Scotland. The Rusha coal mine by Banks Group began extracting coal from the site in 2012. It had planned to extract about 1.5 million tonnes of coal over its 154 hectares. The site had 150 employees and …
The southwest is one of the lowest regions of Scotland, down where we share the border with England. As such, many crystal hunters pass it by. It has some lovely quartz, some wonderful mines with a plethora of crystal …
Early mine workings still dot the Lanarkshire landscape. Remains of bell pits can be seen at the site of the late-1700s Wilsontown Ironworks near Forth. The mound-like remains of small pits operated by the Carron Company in the early 1800s can be seen to the north and north-west …