>
>Min-Hist Biblio
>
>Descent / The magazine of underground exploration is published by Wild
>Places Publishing. email: [log in to unmask] (155) Aug/Sept 2000
>
>p 14 Brinchcombe Iron Ore Level by Dave Tuffley. Re-opened
>
>p 15 Tingle’s Iron Mine by Dave Tuffley. Lost entrance found by
>dowsing.
>
>p 16 + survey The Search for Bushall’s Adit by Tony Jarratt
>
>p 23 Lead Mining in the Peak District b T D Ford and J H Rieuwerts.
>Book review by Mike Moore.
>
>p 28 Mining in the British Isles [Part 5?] by Chris Jones. Wolfram and
>scheelite.
>
>p 28 An Accident in the North Pennine by Chris Jones. A difficult
>rescue from Ballroom Flat in Smallcleugh Mine.
>
>p 29 other articles include:
>
>Gigantic geode discovered. Spain - 8m long, 1.8m wide and 1.7m high in
>an old silver mine.
>
>The changing scene at Cwmystwyth
>
>Florence’s Future. Last working iron mine in Cumbria.
>
>Parkend pithead facelift to launch £15M regeneration. Huge cash
>injection for former Forest coalfields. Anon. The Forester, Aug 11,
>200 p 1 1 photo. It is planned to extend the railhead to Coleford and
>link up with the cycleway.
>***
>Heritage cash blasts life into Gunn Mill Furnace. Anon. The Forester
>Aug 11, 2000 p 1 photo. Over £100,000 has been pledged to save
>England’s oldest charcoal fire blast furnace, a Grand 2 listed building
>which dates from 1629.
>
>Rescue of ancient firnace `a dream come true’ for owner. Anon. Forest
>& Wye Valley Review p 7 photo.
>
>A cash prop for our old pits by Bob Smythe. Forest & Wye Review. pp
>18-19. Bob explores former Forest colliery sites.
>
>Tribute paid to forest miners. Anon The Citizen Aug 12, 2000. p 5
>photo. Unveiling a £20,000 bronze statue in Cinderford.
>
>£16.5M boost for old Forest pit site. Anon. The Citizen Aug 11, 2000 p
>4. Princess Royal, Lightmoor and Northern United are allocated for
>industrial development and Parkend and Cannop for tourist based
>development.
>
>Can the man they call the `biggest polluter in America’ dig Britain’s
>King Coal out of a hole? by Matthew Fletcher. Financial Mail on Sunday
>August 20, 2000 pp 6-7 4 photos. Bankrupt coal company (RJB) fiddled
>accounts, directors using shareholders money to finance high living,
>this could have come out of the Mining Journal a hundred years ago, but
>no, it is still going on today.
>
>and from the web:
>
>Exploring old mines in Devon and Cornwall and links to named mines:
>httpp://www.dawnmist.demon.co.uk/Page3.htm
>
>Contributed by Tony Oldham, Retired Mining Bookseller.
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