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...l=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208020910/http://www.coalwatch.ca/worst-mining-disaster-bc-history-took-place-125-years-ago-today-nanaimo |url-status=dead *[[Protection Island mining disaster]] ...

{{Short description|1877 industrial accident in Scotland}} | name = Blantyre mining disaster ...

...ary's church built 1864 has a {{convert|130|ft|m|adj=on|1}} spire added in 1877 that is a prominent feature of the area visible for many miles. The spire w ==Coal mining== ...

...ere two rivers converge. It was only during the industrial period that the mining operations of the Porth Estate and the subsequently named railway station t ...and by the middle of the 19th century there was an impetus to expand coal mining in the area.<ref name="Lewis49">Lewis (1959), p.49</ref> In 1841 Richard Le ...

...y (Turicska) and Ábelová (Ábelfalva) were partially damaged during several disasters.}} Mikoviny was possibly born in Turicska or Ábelfalva, in 1686 or 1700.{{s ...13|p=12}} He was a leading expert on the construction of water reservoirs, mining machinery, foundries, and mills. His chief contribution is a construction o ...

...''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 ...

{{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 ...

...reduced in 1844 by the formation of Jackson as a separate township, and in 1877 by the formation of [[Hunlock Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania|Hunlo ===Coal mining=== ...

...ast=Nimura|first=Kazuo|title=[[The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan]]|publisher=[[Duke University Press]]|year=1997|editor-last=Gordon ...pper to modernize and expand the mine with modern technology and foreign [[mining engineering]] expertise. By the 1880s production had increased dramatically ...

{{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}} ...

...e/ |date=3 October 2019 }}, Avant Homes</ref> There was previously a large mining community in this area clustered around several pits including Auchinraith< ...ther east is the modern centre of the town, built up from the 19th-century mining communities at ''Stonefield''<ref>[https://blantyreproject.com/blantyre-pla ...

| 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 ...

The city of Albia was a past center for coal mining in southern Iowa, and is now known for its historic square, and collection ...thumb|upright=1.25|Map of the Albia area from 1908, showing the railroads, mining camps and coal mines (shown in red).]] ...

...he canyon, with the coal transported out along narrow roads. The winter of 1877 came early and was very severe, stranding the miners in the coal pit and ke ...d from the poisonous [[afterdamp]], making this one of the worst coal mine disasters in history. Death came so swiftly that some of the mineworkers were found s ...

...industry other than the coal mining. Many inhabitants not involved in coal mining found employment on the [[Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal]] or in the text ...al|title= Another terrible colliery accident near Bolton|date= 10 February 1877}}</ref> ...

...sFires/TheRaetihiConflagration/en Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand: Disasters and Mishaps – The Raetihi Conflagration]</ref> ...edford (politician)|Harry Bedford]], politician, university lecturer (born 1877) ...

...pgal l|lk=on|abbr=on}} wine barrel to retrieve goods sunk in [[riverboat]] disasters.<ref name=":0" /> He also devised special boats for raising the remains of ...C669FDE| format = pdf| work = New York Times| page = 1| date = February 5, 1877| access-date = January 10, 2009}}</ref> ...

...was bought by the Locust Mountain Coal and Iron Company. Alexander Rae, a mining engineer, moved his family in and began planning a village, laying out stre === Mining begins === ...

...were convicted of murder and other crimes and were executed by hanging in 1877 and 1878. This history remains part of local Pennsylvania lore and the actu ...again in violent confrontations against the anthracite, or ''hard coal'', mining companies in the 19th century.<ref name="PhilipRosen">{{cite news|url=http: ...