Mining Industry

From local legend, newspaper reports and family history, Alistair Findlay has pieced together a comprehensive documentary of Scotland's shale minin...

Growing up in a mining family, Cath's husband Doug promised his father he wouldn't follow in his dangerous footsteps. But after struggling with ter...

This book is to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Mines Rescue Service in the Rhondda Valleys and South Wales Based at the Dinas Mines Rescu...

Every time you use a cell phone or log on to a computer, you could be contributing to the death toll in the bloodiest, most violent region in the w...

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

Britain and the world were shocked in October 1966 by live television pictures coming from a small mining village in Wales. They showed a human tra...

Which colliery was known as the Fair Lady? And where was the deepest mine shaft? These are just two of the many questions answered in this history ...

In the United Kingdom surface coal mining began in 1942 in response to a national shortage of deep-mined coal. By the 1980s, when Dave Wootton bega...

Coal was the very bedrock on which the town of Whitehaven was built, the trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of the Monasterie...

The book begins with a history of the industrial development of the Tondu Valleys, including the succession of great industrialists who led the way...

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...

The past few decades have witnessed remarkable growth in the application of passive seismic monitoring to address a range of problems in geoscience...

On 3 April 2016 the Queensland government announced that it had granted coal leases to Adani. They are in Banjo Paterson country, where 'Waltzing M...

Although most mining companies utilise systems for slope monitoring, experience indicates that mining operations continue to be surprised by the oc...

An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nations wartime need for...

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