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Photographs Of Sharnberry Last modified - September 27^th by LeeW	Photographs Of East Birch Tor Last modified - September 27^th by Wyn	Photographs Of West Vitifer Last modified - September 27^th by Wyn

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Pike Law East Lead Mine United Kingdom / NY Last modified - May 29^th by Jim MacPherson

Latest Mining & Mine Exploration Documents

Hay Royds 1997 (3.85Mb) General Interest Uploaded October 8^th by christwigg
NAMHO 2019 Review paper. (394Kb) Other Documents & White Papers Uploaded September 3^rd by royfellows
LLCo area plan (624Kb) Map / Survey Uploaded April 30^th by PeteJ
1968 sketch survey Low Level (14Kb) Map / Survey Uploaded April 30^th by PeteJ
History of Discovery of Sungun Porphyry Copper Deposit-Iran (55.30Mb) General Interest Uploaded April 28^th by Hashem Etminan
Enrick copper mine sections (2.09Mb) Map / Survey Uploaded April 22^nd by Tim Colman
Wheal Pool Notional plan (286Kb) Map / Survey Uploaded April 19^th by Dave43
Watts Grove Plantation Sketch (96Kb) Map / Survey Uploaded April 18^th by LeeW
Fine Burn Iron Mine (58Kb) General Interest Uploaded March 8^th by colin567
Ffos-y-Bleiddiaid sketch SH9376 (1.25Mb) Map / Survey Uploaded March 6^th by johnwin
Gwynfynydd Visitor Guide 1993 (8.06Mb) Tourist Guides Uploaded January 25^th by Wyn
magpie mine (53Kb) General Interest Uploaded January 24^th by carnkie
Gwydyr Mines Archaelogical Assessment (9.88Mb) Technical Documents Uploaded December 19^th 2018 by TwllMawr
Cambrian slate quaries 1947 (1.93Mb) Map / Survey Uploaded November 16^th 2018 by cookf
Cambrian slate quaries 1876 (2.50Mb) Map / Survey Uploaded November 16^th 2018 by cookf

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Photographs Of Rosedale (Photo ref 82178) by rikj Full marks for perseverance! Last tin I was there was in thick fog on a school trip with a knackered Land Rover - must have been in the 1960s (Yorkshireman)

Calcined ironstone wagon by simonrail No comment left (kev notts)

Boring by air rock drill in a slope in the old mine by carnkie No comment left (Blober)

Wagon by Wyn Hi Wyn - any idea where the wagon is exactly? Perhaps the original JPG has a GPS location? (purediamox)

Calcined ironstone wagon by simonrail No comment left (ttxela)

Margret E. Jones the manager''s daughter who died in 1892 aged 24 by hymac580c I thought the whole collection was so good (Edwin)

Clayton loco by SimonRL No comment left (Manicminer)

Boring by air rock drill in a slope in the old mine by carnkie No comment left (Willy Eckerslyke)

The Mill by carnkie Superb (Willy Eckerslyke)

Washing gold by carnkie No comment left (Willy Eckerslyke)