Wikipedia:WikiProject Mining/Requested articles
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Mining[edit]
- Phosphate mining
- Shaft (Mining) as supposed to Shaft (Civil Engineering) at the moment the same page has to do double duty for shaft sinking (ie. the construction activity) and shaft (mining) (ie. the thing).
- Mine safety - a summary-style article giving an overview of the various topics of mine safety, hazards, mine rescue, etc. There are a bunch of topics and articles, a topic category, and a section in the main mining article, but nothing to tie the smaller topics together.
Coal Town/Camp[edit]
Need to create a coal town article that states what a basic coal town is. Current article redirects to company town, which coal towns or camps could be a subset of BUT, do not fit the definitionCoal town guy (talk) 21:01, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
Mines[edit]
Individual mines[edit]
- Started at User:Turgan/Thompson Mine. All contributions welcome.
- Bagdad mine - Redirects to Bagdad, Arizona
- Goldstrike Mine
- Mission mine, south of Tucson
- Cananea mine, redirects to Cananea, Sonora
- Mount Lyell copper mine
- Brunswick 12 mine - huge lead-zinc mine in northern NB, Canada
Done
- Brunswick 6 mine - lead-zinc mine in northern NB, Canada
- Done
- Commodore Mine
Half done - Honeymoon Uranium Mine
- Done
- Done
- Bois-du-Luc, one of the four Major Mining Sites of Wallonia World Heritage Site mines (French WP article)
- Bois du Cazier, one of the four Major Mining Sites of Wallonia World Heritage Site mines (French WP article)
- Blegny-Mine, one of the four Major Mining Sites of Wallonia World Heritage Site mines (French WP article)
- Vesta No. 4 Mine or Vesta mines (both No. 4 and No. 5), in Pennsylvania, once the largest bituminous coal mine in the world (thus warrants its own article, beyond mere redirect to California, Pennsylvania)
- Yankee Girl Mine, Colorado: found images of it on the Commons, as an in-quotes search term it's getting over 100,000 results on Google
- El Cobre mines, Cuba: the site of the first European copper mines in the Americas
- Mohawk Mine, Michigan: the mine were mohawkite was originally found
- Half done
- Mønsted limestone mines, Mønsted, Denmark: Largest limestone mine in the world. Some media files on Commons. In other wikis: da:Mønsted Kalkgruber, de:Mønsted-Kalkgruben
Lists of mines[edit]
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Mining Companies[edit]
Mining methods[edit]
Equipment[edit]
- Load, haul, dump (or similar)
- Jumbo (mining)
- Jackleg drill
- Stoper - redirects to stoping
- Long Tom (mining)
- Cap lamp (redirects to Headlamp)
- loading pocket
Processes[edit]
Organizations and Institutions[edit]
Publications[edit]
- Mining and Scientific Press, published from the 1860s to at least 1920, out of San Francisco, California
- Engineering and Mining Journal, published from the late 19th century to the present, out of NYC