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A sinkhole on a northern New Jersey interstate that's closed eastbound traffic for over 24 hours was caused by a collapse of abandoned mineshaft, officials said. Interstate 80 eastbound in Wharton ...
The massive 40-foot by 40-foot sinkhole that opened up a major New Jersey highway Thursday was caused by an abandoned mineshaft, officials said.. Construction crews are working around the clock to ...
The Mineshaft attracted a wide range of patrons, some famous. Among those who frequented the club were author Jack Fritscher (who was present at its opening night and attended hundreds of times), [2] Fritscher's lover Robert Mapplethorpe (who took many pictures of the Mineshaft, was at one point its official photographer, and once said, "After dinner I go to the Mineshaft."), [3] [4] [5] gay ...
The women and children were rushed to the mine shaft with a few men for protection, the rest armed themselves and made a position out of a large two-story adobe building. The Apaches attacked with dozens of warriors, they swarmed the small town until they reached the makeshift fortification .
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.
Now the Mine Shaft sign is back above the entrance to the end zone sections 14 and 15, and 10 minutes before UTEP's 7 p.m. kickoff against Southern Utah on Sept. 7, the team will make the walk ...
Quincy Mine Hoist House. When the mine ceased production in 1945, the Quincy Number 2 shaft was the world's longest mine shaft, at 9,260 feet (2.82 km or 1.75 miles) along the dip of the deposit on a 55 degree decline.
Miners pose with lunch pails in hand on a mine rock pile outside of the Tamarack mineshaft. Many copper mines have existed in the Copper Country of the U.S. state of Michigan . These include both large-scale commercial ventures and small operations.