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Mine & Cave Clean-up Competition 2025

General Mining For the more active explorers

Introductions

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Old Cornish Mines

General Mining Chat

General chat about mining and exploring

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James Davies MAMC
Calm YouTube channel recommendations

Digging

A place for all you nutters to show off your work

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cantclimbtom
Digging Projects 2025

Photography

Get help or show off your photography skills here
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Tuck
Plas y coed colliery, drainage level

Technical/Equipment

For discussion of gear and/or any technical aspects of mine exploration e.g. SRT

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Square Buddles

Mining Museums & Events

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Rockall Mines
NCM: Museum guides' pay demands 'would jeopardise jobs

Marketplace

Buy and sell mining memorabilia and equipment
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ChrisJC
Selling at NAMHO conference

The Buddle Pit Minerals or gangue accepted

General Chat

No feasibility studies here - a place for conversation of various refinement and quality

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Pit & Putt Discussion

Mines and Quarries Area specific mines chat

North East England

The Dales, Northern Pennines and the North East
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TomFerry
Eggleston Village Exhibition

North West England

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TomFerry
COMRU: Underground rescue team operating without a base

Welsh Border and West Midlands

Wrehxam, Cheshire, Shropshire, Black Country, and Forest of Dean

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TomFerry
Ancient tradition of freemining allowed to continue

Peak District

Home of T'owd Man. Lead, Lead and more Lead

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JH Lid Repair, 20/06/2025
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East of England & The Stone Belt

Bath to the Yorkshire Moors

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ChrisTwigg
Cleveland Ironstone Mining Publications by Peter Tuffs / Simon Chapman

South East England

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vicarage
Update on the Godstone sinkhole

South West England

Mendip, Devon and Cornwall

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ChrisJC
Great County Adit at Twelveheads

North Wales

Flintshire & Gwydyr Lead, Snowdonia Slate, Gold, Copper and Manganese, Parys & Great Orme

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Gresford coal tip erosion BBC article

Mid Wales

Corris Slate and The Lead and Silver mines of Mid Wales

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Royfellows
Cwmystwyth levels .

South Wales

Including the Coalfields and Iron mines of the South Wales Valleys

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South wales coal level
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Scotland

Lead, Coal, Barytes, Limestone, Strontium, Gold.
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Wartime Mica Prospecting in Moidart

Beyond Great Britain

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thedutchexplorers
Arsiccio mine, Tuscany, Italy

Special Interest

For the more armchair based mine enthusiast

Book/DVD/Media Reviews

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TomFerry
Portraits of the Kolar Goldfield, India - by Rob Vernon

Mine & Mining History

Possession of a beard would be a distinct advantage for this subforum

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Quarrying a grindstone by hand
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General Industrial Archaeology

Manufacturing, Transport, Power

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ElectroNick
Bridges 7-15 of the Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway.

Geology, Rocks and Minerals

Strata, scrins and stockwork

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BertyBasset
Geological Pics - Post any interesting photo here

Genealogy

Find about about your family members who worked in the mines

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ilt
Useful internet genealogy resources
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BCA

British Caving Association
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Forum Notices & Issues

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Add Mine/Change Mine Details Request

Forum Suggestions

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TomFerry
BCA Updates?
British Mine Regions

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