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...enuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Kearsley/ Genuki Kearsley]</ref> By 1900 the coal mining industry had all but disappeared. ...is a service northbound to [[Bolton]] and southbound to [[Manchester]]. In 1878, the mineral railway line to Kearsley was opened, at a cost of £100.<ref>[h ...

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 ...xplosion.html|title=List of the Victims of The Wood Pit Explosion Haydock, 1878|work=GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy|access-date=26 November 2007}}</ref><ref ...

|1910= 1878 ...0 lots for coal company houses to house the miners for its new deep [[Coal mining|coal mine]] just to the north. Merchants Coal, and the related Orenda Coal, ...

...opment of the coalfield proceeded very actively from about 1850, when deep mining became significant in the previously entirely rural Rhondda Valley. Coal wa ...n high. The coalfield experienced a late-stage development when [[opencast mining]] was commenced on a large scale, mostly on the gently-dipping north crop. ...

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

...ining towns, and was one of the wealthiest men in Colorado when he died in 1878.<ref>{{cite web |title=John Wesley Iliff |url=https://coloradoencyclopedia. ==== Natural disasters ==== ...

...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 ...

...hinges, and it also sits on the [[Lancashire Coalfield]], and was a [[coal mining]] district. ...er|Wood Pit explosion]] (at Haydock on Friday 7 June 1878), the worst coal-mining disaster in [[Lancashire]] at the time. ...

...local population sought to have the town proclaimed a Municipality in July 1878.<ref>[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=C ...''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 ...

| 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 ...

{{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}} ...

{{short description|Mining explosion in 1913}} ...ion, which killed 439 [[coal mining|miners]] and a rescuer, is the worst [[mining accident]] in the United Kingdom. Universal Colliery, on the [[South Wales ...

===Mining=== ...e was made in 1881 but the small prospectors soon lost control to overseas mining companies. Tin and [[arsenic]] were mined from the 1880s at the Ottery Mine ...

...1893]] led to a collapse of the silver market, and boomed again from gold mining until the recession caused by the [[Panic of 1907]].<ref name=":0" /> The e === Mining era === ...

...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 ...

...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 === ...

The following '''list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland''' is a list of major [[disaster]]s (excluding ...Famines of the World|journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society|year=1878|volume=41|page=433}}</ref> ...

This article lists notable '''industrial disasters''', which are [[disasters]] caused by [[Industrial sector|industrial]] companies, either by accident, Other disasters can also be considered industrial disasters, if their causes are rooted in the products or processes of industry. For e ...