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...1866. Westville, along with Stellarton, was once home to a thriving [[coal mining]] industry. At its peak, during World War I, Westville boasted three underg ...nderground mine, the Drummond pit, closed in the 1970s. Extensive open-pit mining on the Drummond and Acadia sites was carried out throughout the 1980s and 1 ...

...two brothers who brought the first steam locomotive (Primus) to Purbeck in 1866 – The Pike Brothers – John William and William Joseph Pike ([[Purbeck Ball ...org/web/20070928063407/http://www.pmmmg.org/Pikes.htm Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum] ...

...mistaken him for a gold buyer carrying gold from the nearby Arnold [[gold mining|goldfield]]. A [[monument]] now stands where George Dobson was murdered.<re ...l-status=dead}}</ref> It was the site of one of the country's worst mining disasters. Nine men were killed in an explosion at the mine in 1926.<ref>{{cite web|u ...

{{Short description|1866 British mining disaster}} ...al View of the Oaks Colliery, Barnsley, the Scene of the Late Disaster ILN 1866.jpg ...

| name = General Mining Law of 1872 | fullname = An Act to promote the Development of the Mining Resources of the United States. ...

...ps://youtube.com/rCLFozx3FMI?t=819 |website=YouTube |publisher=Mayday: Air Disasters |access-date=26 June 2025}}</ref> * 1849 – Edward Remington and the Patapsco Mining Company opened [[cobalt]] mines near Finksburg ...

The colliery, owned by [[Andrew Knowles and Sons]],{{sfn|Durham Mining Museum|2012}} was located in the [[Irwell Valley]], just off Lumns Lane and ...bserver'' (quoted by Cutler) reported the ejection of locked out miners in 1866 and their replacement by "200 men from Cornwall and 300 from Staffordshire" ...

...e is dedicated to operational preservation of the Welsh heritage of [[coal mining]], which took place during the [[Industrial Revolution]]. ...tory/>}} which means it has some of the oldest large scale industrial coal mining developments in the [[South Wales Coalfield]].<ref name="Evans2000" /> The ...

...p]]. Further reductions occurred when Plymouth Borough was incorporated in 1866, and Larksville Borough was incorporated in 1909. The western half of Edwar ===Coal mining=== ...

...Old Ordnance Survey Maps; Salford (West), Lancashire Sheet 104.5</ref> In 1866 Pendleton became a separate [[civil parish]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vi ...r Coalfield]], part of [[Lancashire Coalfield]]. In the early days of coal mining seams lying on or close to the surface were exploited, but as time went by ...

Haydock is the home of the [[Haydock Park Racecourse]], while the old mining tip and spoil areas south of the village have been developed into the Lyme ...ww.dmm.org.uk/uknames/u1878-02.htm | website = Durham Mining Museum| title=Disasters - 7th June 1878, Haydock, Wood Pit | access-date = 10 March 2025 }}</ref> A ...

...''tangata'') or as "people for food". After the [[Kaitangata Mine disaster|mining disaster]] in 1879 a local newspaper pointed out the meaning of the name an ...ss meant that mining did not commence until the late 1850s. At Kaitangata mining began in 1862, just after the township commenced with the sale of its first ...

...as "the Peak Downs". The first newspaper, the [[Peak Downs Telegram]] and Mining Record, was established in August 1864, and the first issue was dated Tuesd ...article/20310381|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=17 September 1866|title=PEAK DOWNS.|page=4|newspaper=[[Northern Argus (Rockhampton)|Northern ...

{{For|a list organized by the number of fatalities|List of disasters in Canada by death toll}} This '''list of disasters in Canada''' includes major [[disaster]]s (arranged by date), either [[Man ...

...Government Railways|WAGR]] [[Marble Bar Railway]], which serviced the gold mining area of [[Marble Bar, Western Australia|Marble Bar]] from July 1911 until c ...ss-date=12 February 2015|work=The Inquirer & Commercial News|date=8 August 1866|location=Perth, WA|page=2}}</ref> ...

| designation1_partof = [[Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape]] ...orld Heritage Site|UNESCO World Heritage Site]], [[Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape]]. ...

* '''[[1934 in Wales]]''' - 265 miners are killed in the Gresford mining accident ...Wales]]''' - 439 men killed at Senghenydd in the worst disaster in British mining history ...

...d, Mark S. Klima, and Peter J. Bethell, eds. Littleton, Colo.: Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, 2007. {{ISBN|0-87335-257-2}}</ref> ...rt to the surface.<ref name="Korson">Korson, George Gershon. ''Black Rock: Mining Folklore of the Pennsylvania Dutch.'' Manchester, N.H.: Ayer Publishing, 19 ...

{{short description|Accident occurring during the process of mining minerals}} ...ease make this article a table instead. -->{{broader|List of accidents and disasters by death toll}} ...

| linelength_km = 1866 ...html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080615041829/http://www.mining-journal.com/HTML/12-10-07.html |archive-date = 2008-06-15}}</ref> were cont ...