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To achieve the first goal, five steam pumps with a total capacity of 79.29 m 3 /min were used – three drainage machines at the drainage shafts: Schmidt I [75] [76] (sinking began in 1855, [74] drainage machine put into use in 1858, [77] in 1859 riveted pipes made of 3 ⁄ 8-inch (9.5 mm) thick boiler plate with a diameter of 36 inches (910 mm ...
Shaft mining or shaft sinking is the action of excavating a mine shaft from the top down, where there is initially no access to the bottom. [1] Shallow shafts , typically sunk for civil engineering projects, differ greatly in execution method from deep shafts, typically sunk for mining projects.
Closer to the spoil tip, visible structures include the sports hall in Tarnowskie Góry, the headframe of the Anioł shaft at the Historic Silver Mine, the buildings of the former Segiet farmstead, the embankment of the Upper Silesian Narrow-Gauge Railway, and the spoil tips of shafts from the former Friedrich Silver Mine: Nettelbeck, Minette ...
The first shaft, the 1856 Barbara shaft was abandoned at 30m. The second shaft, the Concordia shaft was renamed the Guido shaft. Exploratory mining at 80m was abandoned due to faulting. At 117m water was struck. Financial assistance was received from the Upper Silesian Railway Association (German: Oberschlesische Eisenbahn Gesellschaft).
The Hottinguer coal mine was one of the main collieries of the Épinac coal mine.The buildings, raised between 1872 and 1876, housed a revolutionary atmospheric extraction system: a piston moving in a 558 m-high tube, machined in Le Creusot (an original technique by engineer Zulma Blanchet), rather than by traditional cables, which at the time were unable to descend to such depths (over 600 m ...
The area of the former Fryderyk Smelting Works (formerly the Zamet Mechanical Works, currently Zamet Budowa Maszyn S.A.) is located in the north-western district of Tarnowskie Góry – Strzybnica [] – between Zagórska Street [] (part of national road 11 []), Father Edward Płonka Street (formerly Metalowców Street), [4] Kościelna Street, and – until 22 December 2016 [5] – Zametowska ...
The Upper Silesian Coal Basin (USCB; Polish: Górnośląskie Zagłębie Węglowe, GZW, Czech: Hornoslezská uhelná pánev) is a coal basin in Silesia, in Poland and the Czech Republic. [ 1 ] The Basin also contains a number of other minable resources, such as methane, cadmium, lead, silver and zinc.
1971, 23 March – Rokitnica coal mine in Zabrze – 10 killed (after seven days rescuers found Alojzy Piątek alive). 1974, 28 June – Silesia coal mine in Czechowice-Dziedzice – 34 killed. 1978, 5 July – Staszic coal mine in Katowice – 4 killed. 1979, 10 October – Dymitrow coal mine in Bytom – 34 killed.