Shaft-sinking equipment had reached a depth of about 6,500 feet when water from an underground aquifer began rushing in. The miners were prepared to handle 80 gallons per minute, which is what ...

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Picture: Shaft sinking While society has dictated that surface mining is no longer acceptable in many countries, it has also dictated that underground mining must be done safely.

The mine was worked steadily until 1896, when it closed. At the time of its closure, it had a length of 3,500 feet and a depth of 1,400 feet, measured on the slope.

Some say their homes are sinking because of it. Concerns are growing after a reported Pennsylvania sinkhole swallowed up a grandmother into an old mine shaft.

The Hartley Mining Disaster The disaster Like many 19th Century coalmines, the Hester pit at New Hartley had only one shaft. This meant miners had only one exit and entrance and only one means of ...

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THE sinking of deep shafts is a branch of mining of such an occasional nature that it is unusual to find anyone having experience of more than a few sinkings in one or two localities, or of the ...

Books Received Published: 18 July 1907 Shaft Sinking in Difficult Cases Nature 76, 291–292 (1907) Cite this article ...