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| x Honister Slate Mine |
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Slate |
The Honister Slate Mine is a group of slate mines and quarries located at the top of the Honister Pass in the Lake District in England. The earliest reference to quarrying at this location is from 1728.
In 1870 very substantial underground workings...
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| x Bardh open-cast coal mine | Lignite |
Bardh open-cast coal mine is lignite based coal mine in Kosovo operatied by Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK).
The open-cast coal mines of Bardh and Mirash cover a working surface area of 10 km2 and if all the external dump sites from 1956-1991 are...
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| x Mirash open-cast coal mine | Lignite |
The Mirash and Bardh open-cast coal mines are lignite coal mines in Kosovo operatied by the Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK).
The two mines cover a working surface area of 10 km and, if all the external dump sites from 1956-1991 are included, the...
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| x Grimes Graves Flint Mines | 15 m | Flint | Location | ||
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| x Borrowdale Wad Mines | Project focus | ||||
| x Murrayshall & Craigend Limeworks | Lime | Location | |||
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| x Burn Naze salt works | Project focus | ||||
| x Preesall Salt Mines | Project focus | ||||
| x Devon Union Mine | Copper |
SX 518/792Mary Tavy, Devon, England.2 shafts sunk into the alluvium of the River Tavy, in a cluster of trees in Harford Caravan Site (1966)
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| x Ashburton United Mine |
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200 m | Arsenic |
SX 772/735 (Ordnance Survey Refs). Shaft 600' deep. Active in 1860 - http://people.exeter.ac.uk/pfclaugh/mhinf/mj1860.htm
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| x Bagtor Mine, Islington, Devon | Tin |
SX 765/752 Ordnance Survey Refs1 adit 350 yards NNW of Bagtor Cottages existed in 1966. In a nearby gulley was also a shaft about 10m deep. Various slag heaps and a caved in tunnel 400 yards west of Bagtor cottages. ...
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| x Bamfylde Mine | 330 m | Barite |
SS738/328 OS Ref. North Molton, Devon, England. Transactions of the Devonshire Association 70, P149
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| x Bedford Mine | 300 m | Tin |
SX 45/70 OS Ref. Tavistock Hamlets, Tavistock, Devon, England
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| x Bedford and Gawton Mine | Lead |
SX 455/691 OS Ref. Bere Alston, Devon, England
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| x Beer Mine, Beer Seaton, Devon | 300 m | Tin |
SX 438/680 OS Ref. Active 1895. http://64.233.183.132/search?q=cache:ujNbiKDZZjcJ:www.pdmhs.com/1896%2520Lists/1896-70.htm+beer+alston+mine&hl=pt-PT&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=pt
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| x Belstone Mine, South Tawton, Devon | Copper |
SX 632/945 OS Ref. Part of Wheal Emily
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| x Bennah Mine, Christow, Devon |
SX 835/847 OS Ref
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| x Bertha Consols Mine, Buckland Monochorum, Devon | Copper | Location | |||
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| x Wheal Betsy Mine, Mary Tavy, Devon | 300 m | Lead |
SX 510/810 OS Ref. Reopened in 1806, mining for lead, but closed by 1900. Shafts 840', 576', 480' and 30' in 1966. Many shafts filled in by military exercises. One stark Engine House house (preserved) remains, but another was apartently blown up....
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| x Minas de Aljustrel | Zinc | Location | |||
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| x Minas de Neves Corvo, Portugal | Zinc | Location | |||
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| x Devon Great Consols | 550 m | Copper |
SX 42/73 OS Ref. Once the biggest copper mine in the world. Founded by Josiah Hitchins in 1844 on land leased from the Duke of Bedford. Numerous unsuccessful attempts made to rework the tips over the years.
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| x Crebor Mine | 250 m | Arsenic |
Main shaft 720'. One of the oldest underground workings around Tavistock, discovered during the construction of the Tavistock Canal tunnel to Morwhelham. Inclined shaft by entrance to the canal tunnel was already disused in 1828.New companies took...
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| x Minas da Panasqueira | 300 m | Wolframite |
One of the largest active underground mines in the world. 1910 run by Wolfram Mining and Smelting Cº Limited until 1928 when it became the Beralt Tin and Wolfram Cº Limited. This continued till 1973, when it became the...
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| x George and Charlotte Mine | Copper |
SX 453/698 OS Ref. In 1869 sold 110 tons of Iron Pyrites. Now part of Morwhellam Mine Experience.
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| x Minas de São Domingos | Copper | Location | |||
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| x Minas dos Carris | Wolframite | Location | |||
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| x Minas de Penedono | Gold |
Penedono, Portugal
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| x Mina de Lousal | Pyrite | Location | |||
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| x Minas de Boralha | Wolframite | Location | |||
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| x Adams | Lead |
Adams Mine, Christow, Devon
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| x Albert | Tin | Location | |||
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| x Alfred | Copper | Location | |||
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| x Aller | Lead | Location | |||
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| x Allerford | Manganese | Location | |||
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| x Alvington | Location | ||||
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| x Anderton | Copper |
Disused mine near Tavistock, Devon.Murrays Shaft 480' and 2 shafts 200 yards W x N of Murrays. "Shaft 310 E of Rixhill Engine Shaft. Adit 246 yards east of shaft". A small built in tunnell which is perhaps a way to the shaft or just a drain ,...
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| x Ann | Lead | Location | |||
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| x Anna Maria | Copper | Location | |||
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| x Anne | Tin | Location | |||
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| x Arundel | Copper | Location | |||
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| x Aston | Manganese | Location | |||
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| x Atlas | Location | ||||
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| x Bagtor | Tin |
Islington, Dartmoor, Devon, England
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| x Barton | Iron ore |
North Molton, Devon, England (Exmoor)
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| x Batchelors Hall | Tin |
Near Princetown, Dartmoor, Devon, England.(Lydford Parish).
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| x Wheal Jane |
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Wheal Jane was a tin mine near Baldhu and Chacewater in West Cornwall, England. The area itself consisted of a large number of mines.
Wheal Jane was probably seriously worked for tin from the mid 1700s. Given the complexity of ore formation near...
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| x Ok Tedi Mine |
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Copper |
The Ok Tedi Mine is located near the headwaters of the Ok Tedi River, in the Star Mountains Rural LLG of the North Fly District of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
The mine is operated by Ok Tedi Mining Limited (OTML) which is majority...
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| x Eland Shaft | 1,400 m | Gold | Location | ||
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