Mining Industry

Capturing for posterity the vanishing world of uranium mining, this candid memoir recounts the author's adventures and misadventures working und...

Cornwall is acknowledged internationally as the home of hard-rock mining and the cradle of the steam engine. The rich mineral deposits with which t...

Examines the silicosis crisis in the South African mining industry, and reveals how the rate of, often fatal, tuberculosis among black migrant mine...

The success of the Durham Coalfield and its important role in the Industrial Revolution is attributed to men of influence who owned the land and th...

Middlesbrough and Teesside are renowned for their association with the iron and steel industry. Iron has been produced there on an industrial scale...

On 21 October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults died when a mountainside coal tip collapsed, engulfing homes and part of a school in the village of ...

Yorkshire People & Coal is the third title in Peter Tuffrey's Yorkshire People series, featuring photographs from the Yorkshire Post's picture ...

Shaft sinking for the extraction of minerals has taken place for centuries, and for much of this time, coal mining was carried out in the North Eas...

In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the ...

This seminal work tells the story of Ghana's gold miners, one of the oldest and most militant groups of workers in Africa. It is a story of struggl...

The remnants of slate mining and quarrying form as much a part of the Lakeland historic landscape as the stone walls, heathered moorlands and Lakel...