Mine Exploration & Mining History

AditNow is the leading web site and forum for the mine explorer as well as industrial archaeologists and historians. If you have an interest in mine exploration or mining history you will find thousands of mines in the UK and international mines as well as tens of thousands of photos of mines and a vast resource of mining articles and historical documents.

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Latest UK mining history & mine exploration photographs

Photographs Of Van Last modified - September 23^rd by Lizzie81	Photographs Of Heart Last modified - September 23^rd by Karl Marx	Photographs Of Bagalow Last modified - September 23^rd by Karl Marx
Photographs Of Lambshouse And Gull Point Last modified - September 23^rd by Karl Marx	Historic Photographs Of Calvert Last modified - September 23^rd by Jim MacPherson	Photographs Of Calvert Last modified - September 23^rd by Jim MacPherson
Historic Photographs Of Bonsall Sough Last modified - September 22^nd by Dickie Bird	Historic Photographs Of Old Millclose Mine Last modified - September 22^nd by Dickie Bird	Historic Photographs Of Oxclose Last modified - September 22^nd by Dickie Bird
Photographs Of Parys Mountain Last modified - September 20^th by dajones	Photographs Of Evishacrow Last modified - September 19^th by Drifter	Photographs Of Goginan Last modified - September 16^th by royfellows
Photographs Of Nantiago Last modified - September 14^th by I.A.Recordings	Photographs Of Cowgreen Last modified - September 12^th by colin567	Photographs Of Baddesley Last modified - September 8^th by Dj fraser

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Photographs Of Mountain Mine Last modified - September 12^th by I.A.Recordings	Photographs Of Ok Last modified - August 30^th by Imageo	Photographs Of Cappagh Last modified - June 27^th by Saundry1946
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Photographs Of Avoca Last modified - January 6^th by John_Smith	Historic Photographs Of Warrego Last modified - December 14^th 2017 by B175	Historic Photographs Of Sungun Last modified - December 6^th 2017 by Jimbo
Historic Photographs Of Silvermines Last modified - November 29^th 2017 by Minegeo	Photographs Of Storbo Last modified - November 12^th 2017 by nwminer	Historic Photographs Of Groote Eylandt Last modified - September 27^th 2017 by swansea

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Latest Mines, Quarries & Sites

Tyndrum Lead Mine United Kingdom / NN Last modified - September 17^th by SimonRL
Tyne Boggs Lead Mine United Kingdom / NY Last modified - September 6^th by Jim MacPherson
Goginan Mixed Mine United Kingdom / SN Last modified - September 3^rd by royfellows
Wheal Lilly Copper Mine United Kingdom / SW Last modified - August 31^st by Karl Marx
Tynehead Smelt Mill Lead Smelt Mill United Kingdom / NY Last modified - August 26^th by PeteJ
Croxdale Pit Coal Colliery United Kingdom / NZ Last modified - August 10^th by simonrail
Wellhopeknott Lead Mine United Kingdom / NY Last modified - July 29^th by SimonRL
Bittadon Mixed Mine United Kingdom / SS Last modified - July 22^nd by Karl Marx
Great Watermouth Mine Lead Mine United Kingdom / SS Last modified - July 21^st by Karl Marx
Valletort Consols Lead Mine United Kingdom / SX Last modified - July 21^st by Karl Marx

Latest Mining & Mine Exploration Documents

Pye Hill 1975 (5.58Mb) Technical Documents Uploaded September 22^nd by NeilR
Wheal Lily (Wendron, Cornwall) in Mining Journal (38Kb) Marketing Material Uploaded August 31^st by Karl Marx
The discovery of a prehistoric mine in Sussex (646Kb) General Interest Uploaded August 29^th by carnkie
SUNGUN DISCOVERY INTERVIEW-GSI 2017-B (7.52Mb) Technical Documents Uploaded August 27^th by Hashem Etminan
Newspaper Article 1870 (240Kb) Other Documents & White Papers Uploaded July 9^th by Jonesy83
Croesor Railway Map (154Kb) Map / Survey Uploaded July 9^th by Jonesy83
Notice of Auction, Wheal Mudgan (75Kb) Marketing Material Uploaded July 2^nd by Karl Marx
Wheal Harrison (59Kb) General Interest Uploaded June 25^th by Nicho
Relistian 'Tynn work' in 1696 (631Kb) Map / Survey Uploaded June 16^th by Karl Marx
Inquest - fatal accident with mine trolley (1.18Mb) Other Documents & White Papers Uploaded March 31^st by Peter Burgess
Nomination of the Tasmanian Goldmine at Beaconsfield for an Historic Engineering Marker (1.59Mb) General Interest Uploaded March 20^th by larker
Devis Hole Mine Plan (4.17Mb) Map / Survey Uploaded January 6^th by cchilton-666
Hashem Etminan interview on Sungun discovery 1977 (10.35Mb) Technical Documents Uploaded November 14^th 2017 by Hashem Etminan
Prospectus from 1857 - Pg.1 (4.39Mb) Marketing Material Uploaded November 1^st 2017 by suksel
Snowdon Copper Mines (1.34Mb) General Interest Uploaded August 29^th 2017 by TwllMawr

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Rampgill by in memory of.... Good pic of interesting stonework (legendrider)

Intersection with Georgina Lode in the tunnel, 1965 by Alec Fantastic old fotos (well, only mid-sixties really!) (Nicho)

Railway B&W by LeeW very atmospheric (andym)

Fowey Consols by Scoggan No comment left (spitfire)

Fowey Consols by Scoggan It is written in one of D bartons books on Cornish mining , that the shaft on which this engine stood was so deep and straight ,that someone standing at the bottom could look straight up and see the sky "like a shiny 6 penny piece" .This is very rar (polepump)

Cowgreen Mine by sparty_lea Re-purposed Stanton air raid shelter? (Morlock)

baddesley colliery offices 1980 by mad about mining No comment left (Coggy)

view of baddesley colliery in 1980 by mad about mining No comment left (Coggy)

Taylors Incline, 2018 drought. Incline ''''bottom'''' by royfellows looks a bit different to when we dived this area, you can see ! (Paul Marvin)

Taylors Incline, 2018 drought. Incline ''''bottom'''' by royfellows No comment left (Paul Marvin)