Mining Collection (#6)

Walk through the salt works in the nature reserve of Strunjan, Adriatic Coast, Istria, Slovenia

Take me to where the gold is
This spiral staircase was used to take mine workers to the upper level of the cableways final station

Cherry Creek Nev
A New York to Paris automobile contestant, in a Thomas Flyer car, arrives at the typical American mining town of Cherry Creek in Nevada. Original Artwork: By Spooner & Wells

Graphite Works
circa 1900: A graphite works in Hunupitaya, Indonesia. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Oil Well
June 1919: Storage tank and derrick at Anglo-Mexican oil wells in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cadsby Pit
9th July 1912: A crowd waiting to hear of news of survivors after the disaster Cadsby Colliery. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lead Pickers
December 1909: A team of fluorspar lead pickers at the Blue John Cavern. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Pit Notice
February 1912: Young miners and their brothers read a notice outside a mine in Wigan during the miners strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

On The Verge
July 1912: Families waiting by the roadside for news of survivors from the Cadsby Colliery disaster watching an ambulance returning to the pithead. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Coal Baskets
December 1910: Coal baskets travelling on wire pulleys at the Bargoed Colliery in Wales. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Miners Safety
October 1908: A man demonstrating Shamrock safety gear for the coal mining industry. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Safety Apparatus
October 1908: Workmen attending a demonstration of Simons safety apparatus, for use in the coal mining industry. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lead Picking
circa 1909: Fluorspar lead picking, Derbyshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Salt Collecting
June 1926: Natives gathering salt from evaporation beds at Aden. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Pit Safety
1st April 1908: A mining rescue team wearing safety apparatus. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Les Salines
1911: Les Salines (salt mounds). (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Clay Mine
1912: A china clay mine in Burngollow, showing the drying kilns and ridings for loading. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Colliery Disaster
February 1908: A crowd waiting anxiously outside the perimeter fence of Hampstead Colliery for survivors of a disaster in the mine. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

British Topical Press Agency (1903 - 1957)
Fine Art Storehouse Vintage Photo Gallery: Press Photography: British Topical Press Agency (1903 - 1957)

Expecting The Worst
Main street in Ton-y-Pandy with shops barricaded during the strikes and riots at Glamorgan Coliery

Smoke Helmets
1st March 1908: Three men dressed in Draeger smoke helmets at the time of the Hamstead Colliery disaster, Great Barr, Birmingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Steam
circa 1910: A release of steam at the Bargoed Colliery in Wales. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Army At Tonypandy
1910: Military tents at the colliery during the Tonypandy strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Pit Safety
1908: A demonstration of safety equipment at a mining rescue school. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Coal Wagons
29th August 1907: Coal trucks awaiting shipment from Grimsby Brickpit Sidings, during the great coal crisis. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Welsh Coal Mine
December 1910: Steam billowing out of the coal mine at Bargoed near Cardiff. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Colliery Disaster
circa 1927: A general view of the Ebbw Vale Colliery, where forty miners where killed by an explosion in the pit. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Thebes Excavation
July 1924: An archaeological excavation at Thebes, Egypt. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Gold Mine
6th July 1913: Langlaagte Consolidateds gold mine, Johannesburg. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Gold Rush
circa 1895: A caravan of prospectors arriving at the snowy wastes of the Klondike in Canada to join the great Gold Rush. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Coal Barge
25th April 1917: A motor coal barge on Regents Canal unloading its cargo. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Santa Laura Saltpeter Works in Atacama Desert
The abandoned Santa Laura Saltpeter Works in Atacama Desert, TarapacAa Region, Chile. The abandoned Santa Laura Saltpeter Works in Atacama Desert, TarapacAa Region, Chile

Messel fossil pit site in Hesse Germany

Las Medulas
Ancient roman gold mine

Ancient column with Corinthian capital, Leptis Magna, Libya

Hadrianic Baths Leptis Magna Roman Ruin, Libya

Hadrianic Baths, Leptis Magna, Roman Ruins, Libya

Hadrianic Baths, Leptis Magna, Roman Ruins, Libya

Hadrianic Baths, Leptis Magna, Roman Ruins, Libya

Decorated capital, ruins of the Roman City Leptis Magna, Libya

Ancient columns, Ruins of the Roman City Leptis Magna, Libya

Column with corinthian capital, Ruins of the Roman City Leptis Magna, Libya

Columns with corinthian capital, Ruins of the Roman City Leptis Magna, Libya

Column with corinthian capital, Ruins of the Roman City Leptis Magna, Libya

Columns with corinthian capital, Ruins of the Roman City Leptis Magna, Libya

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

Colonial town of ouro preto
City in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, former colonial mining town located in Serra do Espinhaco mountains and designated World Heritage Site by UNESCO because of its outstanding Baroque

Las MA dulas
Yacimientos de antiguas minas de oro, de la epoca romana.En 1997 fue declarado por la Unesco Patrimonio de la Humanidad.Deposits of old gold mines, from Roman times

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