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  • Thumbnail for Shaft sinking
    Shaft mining or shaft sinking is the action of excavating a mine shaft from the top down, where there is initially no access to the bottom. Shallow shafts...
    21 KB (2,977 words) - 19:43, 8 May 2024
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    A line shaft is a power-driven rotating shaft for power transmission that was used extensively from the Industrial Revolution until the early 20th century...
    21 KB (2,416 words) - 18:26, 10 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Slănic mine
    statue A mining cart The elevator shaft "Slanic Prahova, Salt mine". Romanian Monasteries. Retrieved 2022-09-22. "Visit Europe's largest salt mine in Slanic...
    8 KB (913 words) - 07:35, 6 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Saint-Charles shaft
    The Saint-Charles shaft (or No. 8 shaft) is one of the main collieries of the Ronchamp coal mine. It is located in Ronchamp, Haute-Saône, in eastern France...
    23 KB (3,195 words) - 13:56, 23 May 2024
  • element used to transmit power Line shaft, a power transmission system Drive shaft, a shaft for transferring torque Axle, a shaft around which one or more wheels...
    4 KB (529 words) - 11:26, 2 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mines in the Battle of Messines (1917)
    Harvey, had already begun the preliminaries. By January, several deep mine shafts, marked as "deep wells" and six tunnels had been started. Sub-surface...
    61 KB (5,686 words) - 09:38, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charters Towers mine shafts
    Charters Towers mine shafts are a heritage-listed group of mine shafts and ruins at Charters Towers, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. It...
    27 KB (4,172 words) - 11:38, 22 December 2023
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    Headframe (redirect from Headstock (mine))
    above an underground mine shaft, built for hoisting machines, people, and materials. Modern headframes are made of steel, concrete, or a combination of both...
    7 KB (691 words) - 04:27, 15 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lucky Friday mine
    mining. The mine's primary access and production are through the Silver Shaft, an 18-foot (5.5 m) diameter, concrete-lined shaft sunk to a depth of 6,200...
    6 KB (612 words) - 19:49, 26 January 2022
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    quickly closed for good. When the mine ceased production in 1945, the Quincy Number 2 shaft was the world's longest mine shaft, at 9,260 feet (2.82 km or 1...
    15 KB (1,617 words) - 21:37, 8 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Notre-Dame Mine Shaft
    The Notre-Dame (or Éboulet) Pit was one of the principal mine shafts of the Ronchamp Mining Company (les Houillères de Ronchamp), located in North-Eastern...
    21 KB (2,584 words) - 12:14, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Walden, Ontario
    The Worthington Mine ore body was initially discovered in 1884 by Francis Charles Crean. In 1891, the first mine shaft was sunk, with a small community...
    36 KB (4,151 words) - 17:14, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bochnia Salt Mine
    the mine. It runs from the east to the west of the mine, connecting in a straight line the bottom ends of the Campi and Sutoris shafts. It is at a depth...
    6 KB (656 words) - 00:35, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saint-Joseph Coal Mine
    The Saint-Joseph Coal Mine is one of the main shafts of the Ronchamp coal mine, in the Ronchamp commune, within the French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté...
    19 KB (1,857 words) - 19:55, 22 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sainte-Barbe Coal Mine
    Coal Mine is a former shaft of the Ronchamp coal mines located near the Champagney ballast pits (Haute-Saône department), in eastern France. The shaft was...
    11 KB (1,156 words) - 10:41, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Isa Mine Early Infrastructure
    comprise the Lawlor Shaft & Winding Plant, the Urquhart Shaft and Headframe, the Mount Isa Mine Experimental Dam, and the Mount Isa Mine Power Station. They...
    22 KB (3,142 words) - 07:48, 12 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Kusasalethu mine
    Elandskraal, an amalgamation of Elandsrand and Deelkraal mines) is a gold mine on the West Wits Line near Carletonville, Gauteng, South Africa, and 75 km...
    5 KB (406 words) - 09:54, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bowen Consolidated Colliery
    site for the mine was chosen and two parallel tunnels driven into the Garrick Seam. This activity generated cash which enabled a shaft to be sunk into...
    29 KB (4,431 words) - 06:13, 20 November 2019
  • Thumbnail for Lochnagar mine
    to the British. On Christmas Day 1914, French engineers sank the first mine shaft at La Boisselle. Fighting continued in no man's land at the west end of...
    30 KB (3,908 words) - 07:56, 11 February 2024
  • mine's 1,280 feet (390 m), concrete-lined vertical shaft in 1918 a few miles south of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company's Muscoda mines....
    5 KB (626 words) - 21:58, 24 August 2023
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