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By 1890, the coalfield was producing 3 million tons of coal per year, [2] and by 1933 this had risen to over 5 million tons. [ 3 ] The last working coal mine beneath Cannock Chase, Littleton Colliery , was situated in the village of Huntington, Staffordshire on the A34 and closed on 3 December 1993. [ 1 ]
In addition to coal the South Staffordshire coalfield has been mined for its iron ore.In 1855, William Truran in The Iron Manufacture of Great Britain reported South Staffordshire to have sixty-five sites, a total of 169 furnaces and an annual production of around 950,000 tons of crude iron; the third largest producing area in Great Britain after South Wales and Scotland.
In 1862 the HBC sold its coal interests to an English Company known as the Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Company (VCML). Output was 100 tons a day by 1863 and double that by 1866. By 1874, annual production was 80,000 tons and it was 10 times that by 1884. The mines in Wellington were owned by Robert Dunsmuir. Initially his company was ...
The Ronchamp coal mine railway is a former industrial rail track serving the Ronchamp coal mines. It is located in the French department of Haute-Saône and the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté . The link between the mines' local rail network and the line from Paris-Est to Mulhouse-Ville runs near the Ronchamp station via a particular station ...
The economics of coal mining (1928). Fine, B. The Coal Question: Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (1990). Fynes, R. The miners of Northumberland and Durham: a history of their social and political progress. 1873, reprinted 1985. Online at Open Library. Galloway, Robert L.
Coal-mining in the area is believed to have been undertaken by the Romans, as the coalfield lay on Watling Street. [1] Mining activity was first documented in the 13th and 14th centuries, when the monks at Buildwas Abbey were granted the right to coal and ironstone by Phillip de Benthall. [ 2 ]
The Ronchamp coal mines adit is a large drainage channel with brick walls. It was used to drain the mine water between 1783 and 1840. It has a section of 70 × 50 cm and is 1.3 km long. It was supplied by the Henri IV shaft and the Clocher adit. Map showing the passage of the large drainage channel at the hamlet of La Houillère.
With wooden bodied wagons proving uneconomic to replace for their owners, and post the 1930s recession the wagon makers looking for more economic longer-life products, both Charles Roberts and Company and the Butterley Company started developing standard all-steel construction mineral wagons, with capacities of 14 long tons (14.2 t; 15.7 short tons) and 15 long tons (15.2 t; 16.8 short tons).