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5281 145 18_'Caverns of Night'13_Peter [log in to unmask], 27 Jan 2003 12:03:12 +0000715_ISO-8859-1 >> >> Anyone familiar with the programme, 'Round Britain Quiz' on R4 will >> be forgiven for the slight familiarity of the following convoluted >> question. 'What is the connection between the following, Sherlock >> Holmes and the 'Molly Maquires', Elizabeth Barrett Browning, J.M. >> Turner, W.H. Auden and Tony Harrison's infamous poem 'V.'? >> >> The answer, as many will have realised, is coal-mining, or more >> particularly, the portrayal of coal mining in the arts and thus this >> intriguing book, Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and >> Film, should engage any mining historian whose [...]49_27Jan200312:03:[log in to unmask]
5427 25 26_Re: Manganese and [log in to unmask], 27 Jan 2003 13:24:22 -0000416_US-ASCII I think it was about 1780 when Samuel Skey established an early sulphuric acid works on the banks of the River Severn near Bewdley. Various local historians have claimed that he mined his sulphur locally. Assuming this isn't a total figment of their imaginations, the only likely mineral Skey could have got would have been iron pyrites from the sulphur coal that is found near Bewdley. [...]44_27Jan200313:24:[log in to unmask]
5453 17 26_Re: Manganese and Sulphur.13_Bernard [log in to unmask], 27 Jan 2003 08:31:26 EST313_US-ASCII It would be interesting to know what was contributed by the W.Cumberland and Barrow Iron Works. Sulphur would have been produced as a by product from most if not all Iron Smelters for a very long while I would imagine - let alone Copper & Lead smelters (a nice sideline that was free). [...]33_27Jan200308:31:[log in to unmask]
5471 19 22_Re: 'Caverns of [log in to unmask], 27 Jan 2003 13:45:18 +0000480_US-ASCII > >> industrial and mining landscapes, here the essayist is carried away > >> with what he terms the 'homoerotics' of the genre, drawing particular > >> attention to the semi-naked miners at their work! It would be > >> interesting to read this essayist's thoughts on the famous > >> documentary of the same period and genre on the subject of the GPO's > >> night mail trains, all those uniforms! [...]49_27Jan200313:45:[log in to unmask]
5491 75 25_Re: Manganese and Sulphur11_Dave [log in to unmask], 27 Jan 2003 14:36:44 +0000481_us-ascii John
Thanks for the message.
>The Harlech Dome manganese mines worked carbonate-silicate manganese ores, >which formed a statiform bed best developed around the southern/western >flanks of the Rhinogau, chiefly from above Bontddu, around west to Barmouth >and northwards beyond Harlech. > >Although the footwall-rocks have a bit of cubic pyrite, it never >constituted a signifcant component of the mineralisation. [...]44_27Jan200314:36:[log in to unmask]
5567 82 17_Re: German [log in to unmask], 27 Jan 2003 15:33:18 +0000559_us-ascii Reading Peter's & Mike's interchanges on the subject, it appears that we are going round in circles.
The Lakes mining venture was always a marginal operation but it kept many people in living an some made a comfortable living at that. If silver brought in 9-15% of the income in the later stages of the venture then Peter would be correct in saying that silver was an important aspect but then Mike would be correct in saying that it was not the main line of business which was copper. Or am I being too simplistic? [...]37_27Jan200315:33:[log in to unmask]
5650 13 18_Naming of minerals12_Chris [log in to unmask], 27 Jan 2003 16:53:23 -0000137_iso-8859-1 Yh°r |