April 7, 2020
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June 18, 2019
Obituaries of members of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
We are pleased to announce a new resource in the form of over 1700 obituaries of members of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy covering the period 1892-1968. They were collected by the late David Dixon as part of the research towards his doctorate on technical education in metalliferous mining.…
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January 6, 2019
Coal Mining History Resource Centre
Ian Winstanley, the founder of the Coal Mining History Resource Centre has supplied us with all his data and research and permitted us to publish this on our website, following the closure of the CMHRC website. With the amount of data, it will take quite some time to carry this…
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July 28, 2018
A miners life in the 1950s
We are please to have been given permission to reproduce here, part of Jack Gale's autobiography, relating to the time he was employed at Middleton Broom Colliery, Leeds, from 1951 to 1959. He provides a valuable insight into how coal mines were worked and the life of a miner, in…
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May 21, 2018
Database of Mining Information
We are pleased to announce the release of a database of mining information compiled by the late Alasdair Neill. The database contains over 76,000 entries and is fully searchable. Thanks are due also to Mike Gill who took on, and completed the enormous task of converting well over 6,000 pages of…
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May 17, 2018
Map of Mining Accidents
The mining industry is renowned for having a high number of accidents, many of them fatal. We are pleased to present this new map which shows the distribution of many mining accidents in coal and miscellaneous mines throughout the UK. The image is the Astley Deep Pit disaster 1874 from the…
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December 13, 2017
Resources Page Updated
We have updated our resources page and added some new items like "Index of Graduates at Camborne School of Mines 1898-1940", as well as updating some of the other items. Some items got mislaid during the website migration and these too have been added. On the resources page you can…
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November 2, 2017
SSL Protection Added
What is SSL? SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a standard security protocol for establishing encrypted links between a web server and a browser in an online communication. The usage of SSL technology ensures that all data transmitted between the web server and browser remains encrypted. What is SSL used for?…
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February 1, 2017
Leicestershire Coalfield Pages
A number of pages have just been published on the Leicestershire coalfield, with in depth information on over 75% of the NCB collieries there. The information has come from the Geoff Hayes collection in NMRS records, and is similar to that for the Wigan coalfield, which was published a couple…
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December 13, 2016
Index to NMRS publications & Newsletters
Just released - an index to most of the publications and newsletters that we have produced since 1960. The list was compiled by one of our members, Alasdair Neill, who sadly passed away recently. This massive undertaking, running to over 300 pages of A4, covers over 95% of everything that…
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