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Cave & Mine Cleanup Competition 2025

General Mining For the more active explorers

Introductions

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TomFerry
Another tourist

General Mining Chat

General chat about mining and exploring

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Mining/railway exhibition

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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Lights

Technical/Equipment

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

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Royfellows
Fellows Lamp Forum

Mining Museums & Events

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TomFerry
Namho 2025 Photo thread

Marketplace

Buy and sell mining memorabilia and equipment
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AR.
Miners hat
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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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immyk
Wezzit - Mine Edition
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Mines and Quarries Area specific mines chat

North East England

The Dales, Northern Pennines and the North East
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PeterJ
Redcomb and Willyhole

North West England

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BertyBasset
Winter Hill Coal Mines, Horwich.

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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JH Lid Repair, 20/06/2025
  • DCA

East of England & The Stone Belt

Bath to the Yorkshire Moors

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Quarryman
Some Notable Wiltshire Quarrymen - download link

South East England

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Quarryman
Own up.. who was digging in Godstone??

South West England

Mendip, Devon and Cornwall

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BertyBasset
Post War Reconstruction - 1944 report promoting Cornish mining

North Wales

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

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vanoord
Oakeley Quarry - 40year extension bid

Mid Wales

Corris Slate and The Lead and Silver mines of Mid Wales

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ChrisJC
Bwlch glas

South Wales

Including the Coalfields and Iron mines of the South Wales Valleys

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Cae Glas Colliery

Scotland

Lead, Coal, Barytes, Limestone, Strontium, Gold.
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Wartime Mica Prospecting in Moidart

Beyond Great Britain

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China: The Yangshan Quarry

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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skimble
Falcon Hildred

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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Yorkshire Lad
Geological Pics - Post any interesting photo here

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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BertyBasset
Document Library - Additions

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BertyBasset
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