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...t this time. Towards the end of the century there was a marked increase in mining activity, several collieries being opened, including Lefel-Y-Bush (1863), B ...Wales Miners' Federation]] and the Cambrian Combine, a business network of mining companies, formed to regulate prices and wages in south Wales. A bitter cla ...

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Christopher was founded in 1879 as a railroad stop, and named for Christopher Harrison, a grandson of promi ===Coal mining=== ...

...the [[Middle Temple]] where he was certified as a [[Special Pleader]]. In 1879 Pike published "Translations from Dante, Petrarch, Michael Angelo and Vitto ...org/web/20070928063407/http://www.pmmmg.org/Pikes.htm Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum] ...

...ge:Kaitangatamemorial.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Memorial to the 1879 Kaitangata mining disaster.]] ...esponsible for one of Otago's worst disasters, an explosion at the mine in 1879.<ref>Davison, R., "[https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/south-otago/miners-lives- ...

{{Short description|Cataloging of environmental disasters}} This article is a '''list of environmental disasters'''. In this context it is an annotated list of specific events caused by hu ...

...enuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Kearsley/ Genuki Kearsley]</ref> By 1900 the coal mining industry had all but disappeared. ...was opened in 1916. A Wesleyan day school was built next to the church in 1879 and was extended in 1890. The school was demolished in 2009 and replaced by ...

...int]] where it was loaded onto ships.<ref>'''''The Bellambi and Bulli Coal Mining Company Railway''''' Eardley, G.H. [[Australian Railway History|Australian ...first trade union in the Illawarra region was formed by miners at Bulli in 1879. Management retaliated by firing and evicting union miners and hiring [[Str ...

{{Short description|1866 British mining disaster}} ...irfoot]] in [[Barnsley]] killing 361 miners and rescuers. It was the worst mining disaster in the United Kingdom until the 1913 [[Senghenydd colliery disaste ...

...aitangata+coal-- Editorial], Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1098, 25 March 1879, Page 5. "Apropos of the late colliery disaster in the Bruce district [...] ...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 ...

*November 1 – The second [[Springhill Mining Disaster]] occurs killing 39. ...and unknown location of the crash. This was one of the worst civilian air disasters in the world at the time. ...

===Coal mining=== Fayette City's mining history dates to 1830, when the Cardondelet, Furlong, and Snow Hill mines w ...

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

{{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}} ...

* '''[[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 ...

...ause he did not see Japan as a true threat, and there were several natural disasters during the early 1890s which the emperor thought to be more pressing to exp ...ll as a medical academy and a hospital for naval personnel the torpedo and mining detachments also had their headquarters based in the base.<ref name=":0">{{ ...

...llapse.jpg|thumb|The first Tay Bridge [[Tay Bridge disaster|collapsed]] in 1879. At least sixty were killed.]] ...ation of four technical societies: the [http://www.smenet.org/ Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration] (SME) (1957), [[The Minerals, Metals & Materi ...

===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 ...

...k|last=Thompson|first=Roy|title=Thunder Underground: Northumberland mining disasters, 1815-1865|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u6sgAQAAIAAJ|access-date=2 ...gust 4]] – [[William Julian Albert]], U.S. Congressman from Maryland (d. [[1879]]) ...

[[File:Coal mine Wyoming.jpg|thumb|Surface coal mining in [[Wyoming]], U.S.]] ...VATOR.... - NARA - 556393 tweaked.jpg|thumb|Coal miners exiting a [[Hoist (mining)|winder]] [[Shaft sinking|cage]] at a mine near [[Richlands, Virginia]] in ...