Mining continues to be a dangerous activity, whether large-scale industrial mining or small-scale artisanal mining. Not only are there accidents, but exposure to dust and toxins, along with stress from the working environment or managerial pressures, give rise to a range of diseases that affect miners. I look at mining and health from various personal perspectives: …
Get MoreChild labour in the mines. Taken from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844: Friedrich Engels (1845).. Engels wrote his book after the passing of the 1842 Mines Act which prohibited the employment underground of …
Get MoreThe Dowlais iron works also owned iron and coal mines; they were the largest in the world at this time and supplied products to many parts of the world. However, they still relied on children for their profits. Three sisters worked in one of their coal mines:-"We are doorkeepers in the four-foot level.
Get MoreThough various types of mines have existed across the nation, almost from the very discovery of America, those in the American West are and were, the most plentiful, and the history they've left in their wakes is of romance, fortunes …
Get MoreIn the 1930s, George Orwell volunteered to spend time down a coal mine to find what life was like for coal miners. For the six foot, middle class, old Etonian, the experience of going down a mine was a real shock. The …
Get MoreThe Life of a Coal Miner. BY REV. JOHN McDOWELL. "I'm twelve years old, goin' on thirteen," said the boy to the boss of the breaker. He didn't look more than ten, and he was only nine, but the law said he must be twelve to get a job. He was …
Get MoreThe Marquette iron range played an instrumental role in the development of one of the large population in the Upper Peninsula. The demand for Michigan's Upper Peninsula rich deposits of iron rose through the roof with the …
Get MoreNov 16, 2020. SSPL/Getty Images. The 'Iron Lady' earned her reputation for toughness when coal miners called a nationwide strike in 1984. As Margaret Thatcher took office as Britain's first ...
Get MoreCoal shafts could go hundreds of feet into the ground. Once a coal seam was found, the miners dug horizontally. However, underground the miners faced very real and great dangers. Even with Watt's improved steam engine, gas flooding was a real problem in mines. E xplosive gas (called firedamp would be found the deeper the miners got. One spark ...
Get MoreCalifornia Gold Rush for Kids. In 1848, people found gold in the Sacramento Valley. The California Gold Rush was started by the discovery of gold in 1848. Thousands of people came to this area looking for money. In total, $2 billion in precious metal was extracted from the area by 1849. Before gold was found, the US had been fighting for two ...
Get MoreBecause life was a series of horrors without rewards, miners drank heavily to forget the bad times. They would spend what little money they had on 10-cent beer and stay all night in Zekes, the Stope, the Amber Inn, or the Gold Coin where they …
Get MoreMiners. In the 19th century the coal mines of Great Britain provided the primary source of energy for the industrial revolution. Coal powered the steam locomotives, ships, steam engines in mills etc. It also generated heat and light …
Get MoreIt was one of the toughest years of ex-miner Paul Kelly's life, but 30 years on from the bitter end of the strike, he says he has no regrets. The 54-year-old was working at Agecroft Colliery ...
Get MoreOther miners and their families in this era weren't so lucky. These 19 photos show a glimpse of mining life in Kentucky in the first half of the twentieth century. Two things are for certain about mining in the early 1900s: Life was hard—but the …
Get MoreThe History of Breckenridge, CO: A Day in the Life of a Miner. . The day started early and ended late for miners and others working in the mines of Summit County. Mining companies expected their workers to be down in the mine at 7:00 a.m. ready to go. This required the miners to rise early and walk or ride to work, sometimes in heavy snow and ...
Get Moreminers Mineral Resources While 1997 was the bicentenary of mining in Australia by people of European descent, the history of mining in this country stretches back much further. For more than 40 000 years before the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney Harbour, Australian Aborigines had been mining the land for ochre and stone.
Get MoreLife for soldiers in World War I followed a specific routine that involved waking up at around 5 a.m., performing military drills when not engaged in direct combat, eating breakfast, having an early dinner, sleeping briefly, performing more military exercises and then doing physical labor before retiring for the evening. Soldiers in World War I spent most of the time in …
Get MoreHe was 18 when rules allowed him to buy bitcoin for the first time. And now, at 19, Sears has doubled down on his life as a bitcoin miner, saying "no" to college and "yes" to living in a ...
Get MoreFor immigrants, life on the Iron Range was not easy. Mine laborers worked long hours and received low wages. Underground mines operated on a contract labor system—an arrangement in which miners received payment …
Get MoreVictorian workers. Life was hard for working people during Queen Victoria's reign. The changeover to an industrial society meant that new types and methods of work were created and, for the first time, massive numbers of …
Get Moreillness among the miners. These included things like stunted growth, crippled legs, curvature of the spine, skin irritations, heart disease, ruptures, asthma, bronchitis and rheumatism. Although the problems in the mines had existed for many years, it was somewhat a case of 'out of sight, out of mind'. This became increasingly so as the demand ...
Get MoreThese 15 rare coal mining photos from Pennsylvania give us a look into what life was like for miners and their families in the early part of the 20th century. Click here to view a rare video from Pennsylvania in the 1940s. Pennsylvania In …
Get MoreIt was one of the toughest years of ex-miner Paul Kelly's life, but 30 years on from the bitter end of the strike, he says he has no regrets. The 54 …
Get MoreThe life of a Cornish Miner. For much of its life span Levant had five or six hundred employees, men, women and children. A typical miner's day was long and very hard going; a life under the sea was not easy and life above it was hardly better. 'Those who are not killed by accident perish of exhaustion and excessive toil; the rock is hard and ...
Get MoreVisitBritain/Britain On View/Getty Images. Life for soldiers in World War I followed a specific routine that involved waking up at around 5 a.m., performing military drills when not engaged in direct combat, eating breakfast, having an …
Get MoreA DAY IN THE LIFE OF A COAL MINERS FAMILY IN THE 1930'S - E LOTE MINING IN ALDRIDGE STEAM POWERED LORRIES OF THE ALDRIDGE COLLIERY CO.LTD. ALDRIDGE COLLIERY No. 2 PLANT 4am. Dad gets up to go to work, and he will meet all the other miners waiting to get the bus to either 'Dry Bread' or the 'Fair Lady'. All pits had strange …
Get MoreA Day in the Life of a Coal Miner: A coal miner says good-bye to his wife and children, and heads off to work. He reaches the mine, prepares his lamp, and then descends into the mine along with some other workers. As he and the others …
Get MoreHow Miners Lived, Dressed, and Died in the 1800s. While most people know that blue jeans have their origin in the great, late-1800s mining booms in places like California, Nevada, and Colorado, not many have a nuanced grasp …
Get MoreA DAY IN THE LIFE OF A MINER. Our school caretaker used to work in a coal mine. As part of our history topic, looking at the history of Ossett, he came into our class to tell us about his life working in the mine. From this, we wrote a descriptive story detailing what we thought it would be like to be a miner.
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