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This book tells how mines evolved from simple bell pits into extensive networks of shafts and tunnels and extending deep underground.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Winning the coal; Underground transport; Winding; Power; Hazards; Preparing the coal for sale; Coal mining today; Some mining terms; Further reading; Places to visit

Product details

Published 01 Feb 2000
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 32
ISBN 9780747804345
Imprint Shire Publications
Dimensions 210 x 149 mm
Series Shire Library
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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