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Mining towns were abandoned when the mines closed, largely due to the devaluation of silver in 1893. Mill towns were abandoned when the mining towns they serviced closed. Farming towns on the eastern plains were often deserted due to rural depopulation. Coal towns were abandoned when the coal (or the need for it) ran out.
The Stockton mine railway was, in 1908, New Zealand’s first electric railway. It carried coal from the Westport-Stockton Coal Companies mine to the NZR railhead at Ngakawau on the West Coast of the South Island from 1908 to 1953, when it was replaced by an aerial cableway. The line was 10.5 km long, with 2.4 km in two long tunnels.
The plateau contains rich seams of high-quality coal, which led to the creation and abandonment of the mining towns of Denniston and Millerton, and the current Stockton Mine. Plans to create a new open-cast mine on the southern part of the plateau have become an environmental controversy.
The Rockies Incline was located about 1.3 kilometres (0.81 miles) south of Granity on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. [1] It ran from the Westport Main Coal Company’s Westport Main Mine on a flat-topped ridge at the western edge of the Millerton-Stockton plateau and descended a steep escarpment to the coastal plain near sea level – with a total fall of about 550 metres ...
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Muchakinock, a coal camp of the Consolidation Coal Company, abandoned. Newton, where the well-known Maytag company closed down in 2006. Numa and its abandoned suburb Martinstown, former home of the Numa Block Coal Company. Severs, south of Colfax camp of the Colfax Consolidated Coal Company, abandoned. Stone City, a town built by local ...
In the mid-19th century, Colorado Springs was a center of mining industry activity. Coal was mined in 50 mines in the area and towns, now annexed to Colorado Springs, were established to support residents of the coal mining industry. It was the home to gold and silver mine investors, like Winfield Scott Stratton [1] [2] and William Jackson Palmer.
Carpenter is an extinct coal mining town located in Mesa County, Colorado, United States, twelve miles (19.3 km) northeast of Grand Junction at the end of an extension to 27¼ Road. The townsite is located at 39°11′40″N 108°28′24″W / 39.1944°N 108.4733°W / 39.1944; -108.4733 ( Carpenter ) , at an elevation of 5,808 ...