the site became the biggest open-cast copper mine on the planet, as well as the world's first producer of copper. The Great Orme Mines in Llandudno are the only Bronze Age copper mines in the world open to the public.
the naming of the area is Muloobinba, meaning “place of the edible sea fern”. European settlers and convicts arrived at the turn of the 18th century to dig coal mines and a convict camp called King’s Town was established. The area was named Newcastle after Newcastle upon Tyne, in ...
After a mere 90 years, it is the second most spoken language in South Africa, behind Zulu. South Africa is the world's biggest producer of gold, platinum, chromium, vanadium, manganese and alumino-silicates. The world's two largest platinum mines are located near Rustenburg. South Africa ...
and the earliest Indigenous reference to the naming of the area is Muloobinba, meaning “place of the edible sea fern”. European settlers and convicts arrived at the turn of the 18th century to dig coal mines and a convict camp called King’s Town was established. The area was named...
Swansea, city, Swansea county, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), southwestern Wales. It lies along the Bristol Channel at the mouth of the River Tawe. Swansea is the second largest city in Wales (after Cardiff). In the early 12th century the Norm
Cardiff’s expansion stemmed from the development of coal and iron ore mines aroundMerthyr Tydfil, to the north, beginning in the second half of the 18th century. In 1794 theGlamorganshire Canal opened between Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff, and in 1798 the firstdockwas built at the canal’s...
The presence of noxious and flammable gases caused miners to recognize the critical importance of ventilation in coal mines from the earliest days. Natural ventilation was afforded by level drainage tunnels driven from the sloping surface to connect with the shaft. Surface stacks above the shaft incr...
Lambing Flat Riots, (1860–61), wave of anti-Chinese disturbances in the goldfields of New South Wales, Australia, which led to restriction of Chinese immigration. Many white and Chinese miners had flocked to the settlement of Lambing Flat (now called Young) when gold was discovered in the...
and after meeting them Robeson visited Wales in support of their cause. (This scenario was recreated inThe Proud Valley, a 1940 film about Welsh miners in which Robeson starred.) His political views impelled him to visit theSoviet Unionin 1934, and from that year he became increasingly identifi...
with the world collapse of tin prices in the 1980s, the last few tin mines in Cornwall were allowed by the British government to close. In 2006 the copper and tin mines in Cornwall andWest Devon, a nearby borough in Devon county, were designated a UNESCOWorld Heritage site. Kaolin, the...