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Introductions

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Hi from The Netherlands

General Mining Chat

General chat about mining and exploring

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Old pics/postcards

Digging

A place for all you nutters to show off your work

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legendrider
Digging Projects 2025

Photography

Get help or show off your photography skills here
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Osian
Help Wanted: Where are these?
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Technical/Equipment

For discussion of gear and/or any technical aspects of mine exploration e.g. SRT

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Royfellows
Roys Lamps: "I wonder how many of your early lamps are still going?"

Mining Museums & Events

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Alex
List of Mining Museums

Marketplace

Buy and sell mining memorabilia and equipment
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TomFerry
Petzl stop & srt kit

The Buddle Pit Minerals or gangue accepted

General Chat

No feasibility studies here - a place for conversation of various refinement and quality

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BertyBasset
Breakfast-o-matic Reconstruction

Mines and Quarries Area specific mines chat

North East England

The Dales, Northern Pennines and the North East
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Yorkshire Lad
Mickle Fell

North West England

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West Cumbrian Coal MIne
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Welsh Border and West Midlands

Wrehxam, Cheshire, Shropshire, Black Country, and Forest of Dean

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TomFerry
Ancient tradition of freemining allowed to continue

Peak District

Home of T'owd Man. Lead, Lead and more Lead

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Mine near Earl sterndale

East of England & The Stone Belt

Bath to the Yorkshire Moors

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Brinsley Headstocks demolished for "safety" reasons

South East England

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ilt
Paddlesworth quarry - New mine entry
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South West England

Mendip, Devon and Cornwall

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Is this tin miners helmet genuine?

North Wales

Flintshire & Gwydyr Lead, Snowdonia Slate, Gold, Copper and Manganese, Parys & Great Orme

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BertyBasset
Llandegai Flint Mill

Mid Wales

Corris Slate and The Lead and Silver mines of Mid Wales

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David James
Elan Valley - Nant Methan

South Wales

Including the Coalfields and Iron mines of the South Wales Valleys

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davel
Cae Glas Colliery

Scotland

Lead, Coal, Barytes, Limestone, Strontium, Gold.
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Lochaline Sand Mine

Beyond Great Britain

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ChrisJC
2024-05 Old lead, zinc, silver and copper ore mine in Hunsrück

Special Interest

For the more armchair based mine enthusiast

Book/DVD/Media Reviews

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neutronix
Podcasts / audiobooks on the subject of mining history / disasters?

Mine & Mining History

Possession of a beard would be a distinct advantage for this subforum

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TomFerry
Pub near to Caphouse Colliery / National Mining Musem to be demolished

General Industrial Archaeology

Manufacturing, Transport, Power

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ElectroNick
Bridges 7-15 of the Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway.

Geology, Rocks and Minerals

Strata, scrins and stockwork

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aricooperdavis
Precipitation of metallic copper.

Genealogy

Find about about your family members who worked in the mines

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ilt
Useful internet genealogy resources
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Forum For posts relating to the forum itself

Forum Notices & Issues

Incudes FAQs

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Osian
Image Gallery/Flickr Upload & Image Collections
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Forum Suggestions

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BertyBasset
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