Min-Hist Biblio

New chalk mine appears in reading from Harry Pearman.  Chelsea
Spelæological  Society Newsletter Vol 42 No 2 February 2000 p 26. 
During the first week in January a subsidence occurred in the vicinity
of 6, 8, 10 Field Road, Coley, Reading.  This expanded to a crater 15
feet wide causing two houses to collapse.  Remains of a shaft and two
galleries were found.  This is a previously undocumented chalk mine.

Contibucio al coneixement de les mines de coure situades en el
Permo-Trias de Menorca by Damia and Antonio Merino.  Endins (22) 1998
[February 2000]. Palma de Mallorca.  pp 119-123 5 photos, 4 figs, maps,
survey etc.  Copper mining in Menorca is well documented.  These
deposits are of the red-bed type with chalcocite being the principal
mineral and malachite the secondary mineral.  A description and survey
of the Adela mine in the Pia de Mar, Ciutadella, Menorca is given
together with an account of the formation of these copper ores.

The biological implications of heavy metals in the Mendips by M H Martin
and K M Fawcett. pp 95- 112 illus.  [in] THE MENDIP HILLS / Bristol
Naturalists Society Special Issue No 4 1997.  A long period of mining
produced a severely polluted environment and left a metal-rich soil,
which has yielded a fascinating and unusual flora and an illustration of
evolution on an observable timescale.  Mentions Shipham where the
cadmium soil levels are probably the highest in the world.

Pit poser RJB in plea for aid to keep mines open.  Anon.  Guardian March
2, 2000 p 26  Mining company asks government for money to save its 13
pits from closure.

Notes and Queries, Anon.  Guardian March 2, 2000 G2 p 16.  What is the
deepest man has penetrated below the earth’s surface?  The deepest is
3,777 metres [ie 2.34 miles] at the Western Deep Level in Transvaal,
South Africa.

Tower Film move Paris audiences by Rob Thomas.  Western Mail 6 March,
2000 p 3.  French-made documentary a commercial hit.  The French
production of Charbons Ardent (Valiant Miners) has taken Paris by storm.

Snape Wood, Wadhurst, Sussex - Iron Mine re-entered NGR TQ 633 302 from
Harry Pearman.  Chelsea Spelæological Society Newsletter Vol 42 No 3
March 2000.  Claimed to be the only known instance of actual iron mining
in the Weald.  The mine was opened in 1857 and abandoned in 1858, the
ore was sent to Staffordshire.

Contributed by Tony Oldham, Retired Mining Bookseller.


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