Mining and Heavy Industry

Slate Mine Wales. Submitted by Yummy-Mummy Amy

General Links

• National Union of Mineworkers

• Mining Memorabilia and Mining History

• Coal-Mining History Resource Centre

• The National Coal Mining Museum For England

• Mine exploration, photographs and mining history for mine explorers, researchers and historians

• Names of Mining Victims in Great Britain

Wales

• National Coal Mining Museum of Wales

• University of Swansea - South Wales Coalfield Collection.

• Welsh Mining Disasters

• Slater's 1880 Directory in the Maesteg/Llynfi Valley Area of Mine Owners & Collieries

England

• The Whitwick Colliery Disaster 19th April 1898

• Durham Virtual Mining Museum

• The Durham Miners' Project

• Somerset Coalfields around Midsummer Norton

• Radstock Village Museum, Somerset

• Altofts Colliery Explosion Report

• Cornish Mining

• Geevor Tin Mine

• Lamorna Granite Quarries

• Wheal Jane Mine

• Bal Maidens in Cornwall & Devon, Pit Brow Lasses, Women in Mining UK & Worldwide

• The Peak District Mining Museum

• Whitby Jet Heritage Centre

• Whitby Jet

• Ironstone Mining in North Derbyshire PDF

• Victims of the Wood Pit Explosion in Haydock 1878

Scotland

• Scottish Mining Villages

• Fife Pits

Women & Mining

• Searchable Database of Women at The Mines of Devon & Cornwall

• 1842 Commission on Employment of Children in Mines Indexes

• Female Mining Deaths: 1851-1913 - England

• Women and The Pits

Other Countries

• Mining Accidents, USA, Canada and Australia

• Quarrying and Stonecarving in the USA

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