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- ...story.org/moweaqua-museum.html |archivedate=2011-07-26 |df= }}</ref><ref>''Mining Memories: 54 men killed in the Moweaqua Coal Mine Disaster are remembered o ...nently. The ''Moweaqua Coal Mine Museum'', founded in 1986, contains many mining artifacts that recall the disaster and the work of the miners.<ref name="Co ...8 KB (1,326 words) - 15:16, 25 March 2025
- ...and Trans-frontier Commerce on the Lawa River | chapter=3 Small-scale Gold Mining and Trans-frontier Commerce on the Lawa River |series=In and Out of Surinam ...ussian Tsar [[Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III]] who in May 1891 awarded the area to Suriname. In 1902, then-Governor [[Cornelis Lely]] in S ...10 KB (1,305 words) - 17:38, 12 April 2025
- ...cription|Any of three mining disasters in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada (1891, 1956, 1958)}} ...l, Nova Scotia|Springhill]] in [[Cumberland County, Nova Scotia]]. In the 1891 accident, 125 died; in 1956, 39 were killed; and in 1958, 75 miners were ki ...24 KB (3,546 words) - 12:34, 9 May 2025
- ...nting Office|location= Washington DC |pages=203–204 }}</ref> The earliest mining of coal in the coalfield was in [[Pocahontas, Virginia]] in 1883 <ref>{{cit ...ne_Disasters/search_Coal_county.asp?COUNTY=McDowell+County%2C+WV Coal Mine Disasters in the United States - By County] ...9 KB (1,287 words) - 22:50, 2 March 2025
- ...tatus=dead }}</ref> MSHA carries out the mandates of the Mine Act at all [[mining]] and [[mineral processing]] operations in the United States, regardless of ...ne Safety and Health division is divided into 12 districts covering [[coal mining]] in different portions of the United States. The Metal-Nonmetal Mine Safet ...19 KB (2,652 words) - 01:39, 15 May 2025
- ...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 ...29 KB (4,304 words) - 23:46, 27 June 2025
- ...area by the early 1970s. The community is famous for both the [[Springhill Mining Disaster]] and being the childhood home of international recording star [[A |1891|4813 ...36 KB (4,949 words) - 12:10, 10 March 2025
- ...es, established in 1887. Once a thriving [[silver]], [[lead]] and [[zinc]] mining community, the town saw significant decline in the mid-twentieth century af ...implicated in the [[Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899|Idaho mining wars of 1899]].{{sfn|Schwantes|1996|p=317}} Both the Hecla and Star mines a ...24 KB (3,467 words) - 03:13, 2 June 2025
- ...c]] nature of [[cyanide]] has led to controversy regarding its use in gold mining, with it being banned in some parts of the world. However, when used with a The expansion of gold mining in the [[Witwatersrand|Rand]] of South Africa began to slow down in the 188 ...25 KB (3,560 words) - 00:11, 24 May 2025
- | designation1_partof = [[Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape]] ...orld Heritage Site|UNESCO World Heritage Site]], [[Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape]]. ...18 KB (1,718 words) - 18:33, 28 April 2025
- ...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 ...21 KB (3,140 words) - 02:07, 30 December 2024
- Haldane visited the scenes of many mining disasters and investigated their causes.<ref name=acott/><ref name="Goodman2007">{{ci On 12 December 1891 John Scott Haldane married Louisa Kathleen Coutts Trotter (1863–1961),<ref> ...21 KB (3,024 words) - 16:22, 18 June 2025
- ...south-eastern edge of the [[South Wales Coalfield]] and has been shaped by mining, together with other heavy industries, for many centuries.<ref name="oxford |1891 ...16 KB (2,382 words) - 10:17, 24 June 2025
- {{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 ...45 KB (6,718 words) - 13:48, 28 June 2025
- * '''[[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 ...19 KB (2,950 words) - 16:16, 17 August 2024
- {{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}} ...109 KB (14,845 words) - 02:54, 1 July 2025
- ...k|last=Thompson|first=Roy|title=Thunder Underground: Northumberland mining disasters, 1815-1865|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u6sgAQAAIAAJ|access-date=2 ...3]] – [[Samuel C. Pomeroy]], American politician, railroad executive (d. [[1891]]) ...19 KB (2,411 words) - 16:29, 3 October 2025
- ...al inauguration of the entire line so the railway had been operating since 1891.<ref name=elsol>[https://www.elsol.com.ar/mendoza/tren-trasandino-una-foto- ...een [[Mendoza, Argentina|Mendoza]] and Uspallata was opened on 22 February 1891 and extended to Rio Blanco on 1 May 1892,<ref name=elsol/> to Punta de Vaca ...16 KB (2,326 words) - 05:20, 17 June 2025
- ...2.</ref> The post office was established at Wilburton, Indian Territory in 1891.<ref name="OK-place-names"/> At the time of its founding, the community was ...e_disasters/search_Coal_state.asp?ACC_STATE_NAME=Oklahoma |title=Coal Mine Disasters in the United States by State: Oklahoma |website=usmra.com |access-date=Jan ...14 KB (1,914 words) - 03:44, 12 September 2025
- ...storic county]] of [[Lancashire]], Westhoughton was once a centre for coal mining, [[Spinning (textiles)|cotton-spinning]] and [[Textile manufacture during t In 1891, the Rose Hill Doubling Mill had 8,020 spindles and Higson and Biggs' Victo ...45 KB (6,120 words) - 02:22, 25 February 2025