mining

This building is part of a cluster of highly regarded academic buildings, some dating back many years. As far as I can tell this is the only one that is disused - since 2008. It was built relatively recently in 1913 and externally is not quite as pleasing to the eye as some of the others. In a...

The mine of westerholt was one of the last remaining German coal mines in the Ruhr area. It dates back to 1907 when shaft 1 and two were sunk. Coal was delivered to a nearby coke plant which was replaced in 1956 by another, nearby plant. The old one got demolished and the area used to sink shaft...

Saint-Clair-de-Halouze mine site The Saint-Clair-de-Halouze mine site encompasses all the mining installations dating from 1949 to 1978. The headframe, towering over the concrete infrastructure (receipt building, crushing plant, engine room, ore storage silos, miners' changing rooms and...

The historic landscape area of Cwm Bargoed Washery essentially comprises the site of the washery established during the later half of the 20th century with its extensive tips and lagoons. The washery has removed or buried most of the mining and transport remains, which previously stood in the...

One from a great bank holiday road trip around Wales sweeping up various sites i'd wanted to see for ages. I missed the first round of colliery exploring as they don't feature in the south outside of a small area in Kent, and as with a lot of stuff up North (anything north of london) I lacked...

: --- Hawthorns / Euroclydon Tunnel – Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire Hidden deep in the Forest of Dean near Drybrook, Hawthorns Tunnel (sometimes called Euroclydon Tunnel) was built in the 1870s for the Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway. Stretching roughly 638 yards (584 m)...

Visiting Maenofferen for a second time, and as last time the security guy in his 4x4 clearly saw us and didn't care this time we spent 7 hours exploring lots of different areas from the first visit. It was 28degrees outside so was a great way to keep cool. Our route included the mill floor...

History Sallet Hole №1 sits in Coombs Dale and has worked Lead & Fluorite on the Deep Rake, at least since the late 18th century. With №2 beginning work on the Watersaw level in the mid 1980, connecting fully in 1987. For this report, although I have seen others that treat them as separate sites...

Gunnerside Gill, tucked away in the Yorkshire Dales, looks like a peaceful valley today but its past tells a very different story. From the late 1600s through to the 1800s, this valley was one of the richest lead mining centres in Britain. The mines here played a huge part in the wider...

After doing a bit of searching on the Internet and scanning Google Maps for a little while, I came across the old colliery in Snowdown, adding to my forever expanding list of locations to explore. HISTORY The Snowdown Colliery was founded by the Arthur Burr’s Foncage Syndicate in the year 1907...

History This former colliery was originally sunk in the 1920's under the Llwynonn Colliery Company and, after its takeover by the Amalgamated Anthracite Combine in 1926, finally succeeded in producing its first coal in 1930 from shafts drilled through hard Blue Pennant sandstone. The mine...

Visited in 2010 (and posted a thread at the time), but found myself back in Death Valley today, so - wife & kids now in tow - we took a route back to LA which took us via Eureka Mine. Was close to 100 degrees near the mine (better than the 118 degrees in Badwater the day before), and as always...

We’ve just dropped a new video exploring one of the most striking industrial ruins in the Yorkshire Dales – the Old Gang Mines above Swaledale. It’s a mix of moorland scenery, derelict smelt mills, and some atmospheric underground passageways that still echo with the past. (link below images)...

Goyt Colliery, also known as Goyt’s Moss Colliery, was a significant coal mining site near Buxton in Derbyshire’s Peak District. Situated on the high moorlands west of Buxton, this colliery was part of a network of small-scale mines that operated from the 17th century until the early 20th...

During 2024 I found myself with six months off work to do as I please and we decided to go on a pretty epic road trip around Namibia. One of our stops was to visit the fairly well known Ghost town of Kolmanskop as it is somewhere i've wanted to see for years. Yeah, it's permission and you pay...