enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Bailey Level Gold Mine - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey_Level_Gold_Mine

   Bailey Level is a former gold mine and iron mine in the Forest of Dean, England. The mine and surface features are currently managed by volunteer members of Lea Bailey Light Railway Society. The gold mine was started by the Chastan Syndicate in 1906. Shares were offered at £1 each (equivalent to £136 in 2023). Some 75,000 shares were sold ...

3. Lea Bailey Light Railway - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Bailey_Light_Railway

   The Lea Bailey Light Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railway in the United Kingdom.It is built on the site of the Bailey Level Gold Mine. An attempt was made in 2003 by the owners of Clearwell Caves to open the mine as a tourist attraction, but this was ultimately unsuccessful.

4. Forest of Dean Coalfield - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_of_Dean_Coalfield

   The Mine Law Court was outlawed in 1777 and all its documents were confiscated by Crown Officials. A Royal Commission was appointed in 1831 to inquire into the nature of the mineral interests and freemining customs in the Forest of Dean, leading to the passing of the Dean Forest Mines Act 1838, [5] [6] which forms the basis of freemining law ...

5. Recreational gold mining - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_gold_mining

   Recreational gold mining and prospecting has become a popular outdoor activity several countries, including New Zealand (particularly in Otago), Australia, South Africa, Wales (at Dolaucothi and in Gwynedd), Canada and the United States especially. Recreational mining is typically small-scale placer mining but has been challenged for ...

6. File:English Gold Mining, Forest of Dean, Glos. The Level ...

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:English_Gold_Mining...

   This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

7. Rocker box - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocker_box

   Gold prospector pouring water through his rocker box, Pinos Altos, New Mexico (1940). Rocker box exhibit at Dahlonega Gold Museum. A rocker box (also known as a cradle or a big box) is a gold mining implement for separating alluvial placer gold from sand and gravel which was used in placer mining in the 19th century.