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List of coal mines UK 1880

LLywernog Silver-Lead Mine Museum and Caverns

Collection of machinery and archives housed on the site of a restored 19th c. Lead & Silver Mine in Ceredigion (Cardiganshire) Wales UK.

Michigan’s Copper Country

Mines and mining

Research guide from the National Archives, United Kindgom.

Mining Accidents United States, Canada, Australia & New Zealand

600,000 mining accident records (fatal and nonfatal) covering most of the United States, New Zealand, provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec in Canada, and provinces of New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. However, about 283,000 of the mine accident records are the state of Pennsylvania. The mining accident records are from the late 1800s through the early 1900s.

Mining Blantyre Project - Official History Archives, Lanarkshire

Mining in Michigan

Mining in Northern Wisconsin - The Boom and Bust of the 19th Century

Mining in Wyoming

History of mining in Wyoming.

Ohio History Connection - Coal Mining

Peak District Mines Historical Society - Mines of Wales in 1896

Postcards recording the terrible explosion at the Universal pit, Senghennydd

Wales. On October 14, 1913, there was a disaster in the the Universal Steam Coal Company pit - the most severe in the history of the Welsh coal industry. 439 men and boys were killed. From the National Library of Wales.

Ruby Alaska a gold rush town on the Yukon River

Genealogy and history of Ruby, Alaska.

Scottish Mining Website

Main focus is on Lanarkshire and Fife but information is available on all areas of Scotland.

Silverwood Mine

The history of a coal mine in South Yorkshire England 1900 to 1996, with listing of 3,000 miners on a linked searchable database for genealogist. This site links families worldwide.

Slatesite

Wales. Project to digitize materials for learning about Wales' late quarries, the lives of the quarrymen, & about the uses for slate.

St Agnes Mining District

Cornwall, England.

Stone & Quarrymen of the West Country

England. Genealogical Index of Stone Workers and Related Occupations in Cornwall and Devon.

The Baddesley / Baxterley Pit Explosion 1882

A history of the Baddesley / Baxterley pit explosion in 1882 in Warwickshire England. Details of the men involved and their families, including a list of those killed and those who won Albert Medals for bravery.

The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 - A University of Arizona Web Exhibit