Mining Collection

Iron Miner
5th June 1948: A miner pauses in a tunnel before starting a shift in Britains most modern iron ore mine, at Irthlinborough in Northamptonshire

Abanoned tin mine at Wheal Coates, Cornwall, UK
This abandoned structure used to house a water pumping engine that was used in the mining process

Corby Ironworks
11th February 1950: Corby Ironworks in Northamptonshire at night. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4975 - Did You Know This Was Happening To England? - pub

Botallack Long Exposure
A long exposure of the abandoned tin mines at Botallack, Cornwall in the west of Cornwall, England, UK. Since 2006 it has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site - Cornwall

Steel Furnace
16th August 1952: Liquid metal spraying out of the furnace at Thomas and Baldwins steel works in Ebbw Vale, Wales. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6005 - Steel Town - pub

Under Tilmanstone
A miner working underground in Tilmanstone Colliery, in Kent. Photograph taken using Sashalite lighting equipment

Mining Geological profiles lithograph 1895
Encyclopedia Britannica 9th Edition Vol I New York, Samuel Hall 1878

Steel Foundry
19th January 1978: The steel foundry at Corby. (Photo by Colin Davey/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Dereliction
8th January 1955: The derelict buildings and discarded machinery of a worked-out coal mine near Wigan, Lancashire. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7467 - Problem Of A Dying Coalfield - pub

Glamorgan Colliery
Police guarding the Glamorgan Colliery during the strikes and riots in the coalmining town of Tonypandy, in the Welsh Rhondda, November 1910

Botallack Copper Mine, Cornwall - 1833 woodcut
Woodcut illustration from The Saturday Magazine, Volume 87, November 9th, 1833, an educational magazine under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature

Peat cutting, Connemara, County Galway, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Salt farm, Noirmoutier-en-l?Ile, Ile de Noirmoutier, Pays de la Loire, France

Botallack Mine, Cornwall
Vintage engraving showing Botallack Tin Mine, Cronwall, 1878

Persberg Mines, Sweden
Engraved illustrations of Mining from Iconographic Encyclopedia of Science, Literature and Art, Published in 1851. Copyright has expired on this artwork. Digitally restored

Coal Mine
Vintage engraving showing a cross section of a coal mine, 1864

Coal miners, wood engraving, published in 1877
Workers in the coal mine. Wood engraving, published in 1877

Victorian coal miner pushing a minecart
Victorian vintage engraving of a 19th century coal miner pushing coal in a minecart. The minecart or mine cart (also known as a mine trolley) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway

Blantyre Mining Disaster
The list of the dead is read outside miners cottages at Blantyre Colliery in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, after a gas explosion killed 207 miners on 2nd October 1877

Spacecraft Landing on a Planet
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Placer Mining By Oldtimers
An example of placer mining for gold, with three men, named Spriggs, Lamb, and Dillon, working alongside a sluice box, Rockerville, South Dakota, 1889. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Hometime
1st August 1926: Miners from the colliery at Crown Farm near Mansfield, Nottingham on their way home from work. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Landscape of the Abandoned Diamond Mining Ghost Town called Kolmanskop near Luderitz, Namibia
Kolmanskop also known by its German name of Kolmannskuppe is a ghost town in the Namib desert in Southern Namibia which is situated approximately 10 kilometres inland from the port town of Lderitz

Landscape of the Abandoned Houses of the Mining Ghost Town of Kolmanskop, Luderitz, Namibia
Color Photo of the landscape of abandoned buildings at the deserted mining town of Kolmanskop, Luderitz, Namibia. Kolmanskop is also known by its German name of Kolmannskuppe

Botallack Mine Cornwall
Botallack Mine, Cornwall, UK August 22, 2013. A view of Botallack Mine set low down the cliffs, wispy clouds on a blue sky. Mist lying on the horizon

Illustration of cross-section through a coal mine

Ruins of the Urartian palace fortress of Kef Kalesi or Kefkalesi, volcano Mount Suphan or Suphan Dagi at the back, Adilcevaz, Bitlis Province, Eastern Anatolia Region, Anatolia, Turkey

Coal fields of great britain map 1884
Encyclopedia Britannica 9th Edition New York Charles Scribners and Sons 1884 Vol VI

Horse powered windlass
Antique engraving of a horse powered windlass being used in a 19th century mine

Red top
Engine house Wheal coats North Cornwall

Leadville District, Colorado
Illustration of Leadville District, a busy mining town in Colorado, circa 1886. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Hydraulic Mining During The Gold Rush
Hydraulic mining at French Corral, the first historic mining camp to appear along the San Juan Ridge, during the California Gold Rush era, circa 1849. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Explosives detonator with push-down handle

Cross section illustration of pit mine showing elevators moving up and down in mine shaft, and train of coal below

Illustration of a quarry

Salt industry on Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles)
Much of Bonaires Southern half has been made into a giant system of ponds and pools which take seawater and allow incrimental evaporation of the water until the only remaining product is sea salt

Ionic capital Leptis Magna Libya

Three columns and architrave Temple of Castor and Pollux Forum Romanum Rome Italy

Bas relief at the Arch of Septimus Severus Leptis Magna Libya

Stonehenge, ancient prehistoric stone monument at Palau island

Potash slag heap near Fulda, Neuhof, Hesse, Germany, Europe

The six remaining columns of the Temple of Jupiter, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Baalbek, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, Middle East, Orient

Ruins of the engine room of a copper mine, Allihies, Slieve Miskish Mountains, Beara Peninsula, County Cork, Ireland, British Isles, Europe

Oil Rigs
The Kingsnorth UK oil rig, anchored off Tilbury

Flooded Homes
6th July 1946: Flooded homes in the village of Norton Canes in the Cannock Chase coalfield. The buildings are being undermined by the mine subsidence

Slag Heap
A vast slag heap at the Grove Colliery, in the Cannock Chase coalfield, 6th July 1946. Original Publication : Picture Post - 4111 - The Hungry Pit Of Norton Canes - pub

The Mines Of England
Engravings depicting child labour in the mines of England. Date unknown. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

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