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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.
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.
Manganese mine - the abandoned town of Manganese, outside of Copper Harbor, near the Clark mine; Manhattan Exploration Prospect - Ojibway, Keweenaw County; Manitou Copper mine - near Torch Lake, Houghton County; Mass Consolidated mine - Mass City, Ontonagon County Hazard mine; Mass mine; Merrimac mine; Ogima mine; Ridge mine; Massachusetts ...
The area includes the remains of twelve coal mines and the sites of several long-gone coal mining towns. The Preserve contains over 200 miles (320 km) of mine workings. The largest and oldest town, Nortonville, had a peak population of about 1,000. Somersville, Stewartville, West Hartley and Judsonville were located in valleys to the east. The ...
Lake Trade, Pennsylvania, a now defunct coal mining town in Venango Township, Northern Butler County; Lawrence Park Township, Pennsylvania, built by General Electric Company in 1919; Natrona, Pennsylvania, built by the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company in the 1850s with later additions; Peale, Pennsylvania (1883–1912)
Eureka City is an abandoned mining town in Mpumalanga. It is now a historical site. Diepgezet is an abandoned asbestos mining town in Mpumalanga. It was transferred to tribal land and renamed to Msauli. Leydsdorp is an abandoned mining town near Tzaneen in Limpopo province. [12] Millwood is an abandoned mining town near Knysna. [13]
Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Steve Limani said early Wednesday that the abandoned mine in Unity Township where rescue crews are working to locate 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard is becoming ...
coal mining ghost town Huron: Westmoreland County: Salem Township: A coal mining ghost town. [57] Ingleby: Fowler Centre County: Haines Township: Instanter: Elk County: Submerged under the waters of East Branch Lake. [58] Johnetta: Armstrong County: Gilpin Township: a brick works & coal mining ghost town Joller: Huntingdon County: 1916 1979 ...