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5782 48 12_RE :- [log in to unmask], 22 Jan 2001 14:24:00 -0000199_iso-8859-1 Referring to my now retired Pit working Friends, the term level simply refers to undergound passages traversing shaft to shaft or shaft to working face.
regards,
Alan Dootson44_22Jan200114:24:[log in to unmask]
5831 57 23_levels, slants & drifts14_Stephen [log in to unmask], 22 Jan 2001 14:36:32 -0000226_iso-8859-1 Levels (presumably always horizontal tunnels) and Slants (always inclined tunnels) seem to be the universal nineteenth-century terms used for coal and iron-mining tunnels from the surface in the south Wales valleys.50_22Jan200114:36:[log in to unmask]
5889 17 20_Re: Shaft definition9_Mike [log in to unmask], 22 Jan 2001 16:27:07 -0000270_iso-8859-1 Philip,
It is a pity that most respondants did not stop to read and digest your
question, before replying. I did and must admit to not being clear what
"mining-related compromises in the earth's surface" are. Any clues?
Mike Gill43_22Jan200116:27:[log in to unmask]
5907 12 20_Re: Shaft [log in to unmask], 22 Jan 2001 11:58:05 EST70_US-ASCII Re Mike Gill's question.
I assumed holes.
Richard Amies36_22Jan200111:58:[log in to unmask]
5920 33 20_Re: Shaft [log in to unmask], 22 Jan 2001 13:12:26 EST456_ISO-8859-1 People may (or may not) be interested in acquiring a copy of one of the two
following second-hand books.
1. A Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Industry, by Albert Fay. 1920
reprinted 1948
754 pp. U.S. Bureau of Mines. Around $20 (£ 15) + p+p.
2. A Dictionary of Mining, Minerals and Related Data, by Paul Thrush. 1968
1269 pp.
55,000 entries, 150,000 definitions. U.S. Bureau of Mines. Around $30 (£20) +
p+p. [...]36_22Jan200113:12:[log in to unmask]
5954 20 20_Re: Shaft definition15_Mark [log in to unmask], 22 Jan 2001 12:59:55 -0600288_US-ASCII On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> ...and add SOUGH to the list..... a drainage level, often asscociated with
> Derbyshire metal mines
>
> MARK
>
Pronounced "soo," "sow," "suff?"
Another MARK40_22Jan200112:59:[log in to unmask]
5975 33 0_10_Martin [log in to unmask], 22 Jan 2001 19:56:13 -0000464_- As my earlier reply may have gone straight to the sender rather than the
list i will try again.
In the North Pennine and Yorkshire Dales metal mines the terms adit and
level are the same. However the levels usually perform the dual role of
haulage and drainage. Although the two terms are often used interchagablably
in mining records when it came to naming horizontal entrances into mines
"level" is the most common suffix. [...]44_22Jan200119:56:[log in to unmask]
6009 14 22_Levels, Drifts, Slants9_John [log in to unmask], 22 Jan 2001 21:28:19 -0000360_iso-8859-1 In the ball clay mines of the south devon Bovey Basin, a level is a tunnel
driven in a clay seam & following a contour of the seam. In practice this
usually rose at 1 in 35 to ease man-handling of empty wagons from, and aid
gravitation of full wagons to, the rope haulage road.
A slant is a tunnel driven between two different seams.43_22Jan200121:28:[log in to unmask]
6024 84 6_Shafts15_John [log in to unmask], 23 Jan 2001 11:09:08 +1100549_is¨ø›5 |
