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GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

HathiTrust Digital Library - The history of miners' diseases, a medical and social interpretation, ...

A digitized book by George Rosen.

Life in the Mines

Links to various historic mining resources.

Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Fact Sheet 95-8 - Historical Data on Mine Disasters in the United States

Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA): Guide to Mining Museums and Monuments

Information about memorials and non-profit museums dedicated to the study and preservation of mining cultures.

Mining Artifacts & History

This site is dedicated to those men who daily faced the danger, uncertainty, darkness, dampness, heat and cold of mining, those intrepid individuals who were drawn to toil in the depths of the earth.

Mining History Network

A project hosted by the University of Exeter.