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The Mines of Spiennes cover some 100 ha (250 acres) of downland four miles south-east of the city of Mons. The site is dotted with millions of scraps of worked flint and numerous mining pits, that Neolithic settlers have gradually turned into vertical mine shafts to depths of over 10 m (33 ft). Underneath is an elaborate man-made network of ...
Flint mining is the process of extracting flint from underground. Flint mines can be as simple as a pit on the surface or an area of quarrying, or it may refer to a series of shafts and tunnels used to extract flint. Flint has been mined since the Palaeolithic, but was most common during the Neolithic.
Lynch Quarry Site, North Dakota, NRHP-listed and a U.S. National Historic Landmark, a flint quarry that was "a major source of flint found at archaeological sites across North America, and it has been estimated that the material was mined there from 11,000 B.C. to A.D. 1600."
The Mount Vernon Site, also known as the GE Mound, is a Hopewell site near Mount Vernon in southwest Indiana. The site was discovered and mostly destroyed in 1988 during road construction at a General Electric plastic manufacturing facility.
Mount Pleasant, Perry County, Indiana Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.
Adex holds 102 mineral claims at Mount Pleasant covering approximately 1,600 hectares (4,000 acres), as well as 405 hectares (1,000 acres) of surface rights. [2] Mount Pleasant's Fire Tower Zone contains tungsten-molybdenum mineralization, and is the site of a past-producing tungsten mine operated by Billiton from 1983 to 1985. [3]
Mount Pleasant was platted in September 1837, [3] [4] [5] shortly after New Burlington, making it one of the earliest communities in Perry Township. The town was named after the nearby Mount Pleasant United Brethren Church, which was originally situated near a cemetery along County Road 396-E before it burned down. In 1893, members of the ...
A post office was established at Mount Pleasant in 1824, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1862. [2] ... Mount Pleasant, Martin County, Indiana.