As an onlooker to this group I find it interesting, informative and perhaps
because I have no experience in mining history research etc, it has more
importantly motivated me to look more closely at the mining subjects that are
of interest to me. But I do have a problem with some of the technical
terminology, abbreviations cause a particular problem, NSCF being one such
example. Not particularly wanting to show my ignorance or suffer the
potential jibes I firstly ran a Google search, the number of organisations
and other users of NSCF is vast, it is not easy to see where National
Scholastic Chess Foundations or the Nova Scotia Choral Federation play a part
in Staffordshire coal mining. I appreciate that was a bit facetious, but
could I ask that for the benefit of myself and perhaps others equally devoid
of knowledge that where possible abbreviations at least are explained. Having
said all that I am guessing that NS is North Staffordshire and the C could be
Coal but the whole defeats me.
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