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6613 16 13_Head of [log in to unmask], 24 Jan 2001 04:05:25 EST349_US-ASCII Speaking of hydrostatic pressure, does anyone recall the now vaguely remembered (on my part) tale concerning a party of explorers in one of the Arkengarthdale (?) lead mines who discovered an ancient wooden dam with a small needle jet of water issuing from a crack in the structure, which 'stung the hand' ??
MARK PINKNEY35_24Jan200104:05:[log in to unmask]
6630 32 20_Re: Shaft [log in to unmask], 24 Jan 2001 09:11:27 +0000382_US-ASCII > But a sough doesn't necessarily have to be anything > whatever to do with a mine. A field drain, of the cut and > cover variety, is also a sough (at least in N. Derbyshire).
And something similar in Manchester, at least in 1832. A pamphlet written in the aftermath of the cholera epidemic of that year says of "Little Ireland": [...]37_24Jan200109:11:[log in to unmask]
6663 21 20_Re: Shaft definition29_SERVICE CULTUREL [log in to unmask], 24 Jan 2001 13:32:33 +0100497_ISO-8859-1 le 24/01/01 10:11, [log in to unmask] à [log in to unmask] a écrit :
> Sough is given four entries in the Shorter OED, one of which is (1) A > boggy or swampy place;
In the Preston of my youth (50's) a Sough ('suff') was effectively a boggy swampy area, especially around tributary streams (not the main River Ribble), indeed these tributaries had been all but swallowed up by urbanisation & all that was apparent were the soughs in odd bits of land. [...]45_24Jan200113:32:[log in to unmask]
6685 33 33_U.S. Bureau of Mines publications15_Peter [log in to unmask], 24 Jan 2001 22:36:53 GMT350_us-ascii Richard asks about U.S. Bureau of Mines publications from the mid 20th century. From my experience U.S. government publications can be a useful source of statistical information. For current data, including Bureau of Mines material, see the following website -
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/salepub.html
Peter46_24Jan200122:36:[log in to unmask]
6719 49 34_British Coal employment statistics15_Peter [log in to unmask], 24 Jan 2001 22:36:58 GMT447_us-ascii I've received the following query from <[log in to unmask]>
>I am trying to find out how many people haved worked for British Coal between 1 >June 1954 and 31 December 1994. And, if the information is available, how many >people of this number worked underground. > >Alternatively, I would like to find out the average length of employment for >workers between these dates. [...]46_24Jan200122:36:[log in to unmask]
6769 47 37_Re: U.S. Bureau of Mines publications13_David [log in to unmask], 24 Jan 2001 16:37:56 -0800549_us-ascii Peter: The U.S. Bureau of Mines Reports of Investigations were a major contribution to the development of a number of technologies over the years, since they frequently included the raw data with the reports. There used to be an index of these on the web, but with the demise of the Bureau the reference page that I had died. We do have a lot of the reports at UMR and I suspect that most Mining universities in the States also have them as a resource, but I don't think that they are a Web resource any longer [...]38_24Jan200116:37:[log in to unmask]
6817 16 38_Re: British Coal employment statistics12_Keith [log in to unmask], 25 Jan 2001 09:35:45 +0000286_US-ASCII The basic employment statistics are included in the "Annual Abstract of Statistics" published by HMSO. I'm not sure if it gives detaið÷Rîf |