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The Oaks explosion, which happened at a coal mine in West Riding of Yorkshire on 12 December 1866, remains the worst mining disaster in England.A series of explosions caused by firedamp ripped through the underground workings at the Oaks Colliery at Hoyle Mill near Stairfoot in Barnsley killing 361 miners and rescuers.
The Redding 23 mine workings were operated by James Nimmo & Co. Ltd. in the vicinity of the village of Redding, Falkirk, where coal mines had been operating for over 100 years. [ 1 ] Early on 25 September 1923, flood water from the former Coxrod mine workings broke through to the Dublin No. 1 branch of the Redding mine and rapidly filled the ...
Contains vector-image maps of the affected area of the mine and drill hole map, and also the emergency response plan. Utah Geological Survey 2005 Coal Report (Crandall Mine described on pp 7-8) Seismological Report on the 6 Aug 2007 Crandall Canyon Mine Collapse in Utah; Mine Disaster CSI: Earthquakes Shed New Light on Utah Collapse, from Live ...
The death toll from a massive landslide that hit a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines has risen to 54 with 63 people still missing, authorities said Sunday. The landslide hit the ...
The town was the site of a small gold-mining district that saw production from the 1870s to the 1960s. Dixie Valley: Churchill: 1861: Dun Glen: Pershing: 1862: 1894: Later became Chafey. [3] Eagleville: Mineral: 1885: 1915: Neglected site: El Dorado City: Clark: 1863: 1880s: Barren site: Mining camp in El Dorado Canyon in the Colorado Mining ...
The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, where at least 109 men have died, a group representing the miners ...
In 1981 a memorial to the men who died in the disaster was unveiled by the National Coal Board, followed by a second in 2006, to honour the dead of both the 1901 and 1913 explosions. In October 2013, on the centenary of the tragedy, a Welsh national memorial to those killed in all Wales's mining disasters was unveiled at the former pithead ...
Coal Mine explosion: Casualties; 78 dead: The Farmington Mine disaster was an explosion that happened at approximately 5:30 a.m ... Map showing location and size of ...