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Winding Gear Animation
Winding gear can be seen at the Big Pit in Wales, and at the National Coal Mining Museum at Caphouse Colliery, West Yorkshire.
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Wales tells its National Coal Museum to find ‘historical injustices’ to teach
The Big Pit museum is a 140-year-old former coal mine in Blaenavon, in south Wales and part of Museum Wales, a government-backed body which is bound to follow a Labour directive to set “the ...
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Free event at Big Pit to commemorate end of Miners' Strike
Big Pit National Coal Museum will host a day of 'strike memories ... is the first educational virtual reality mining experience in the UK. While the VR experience does require a fee and must ...
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Moving graves and people for coal mines: the devastating costs of mining in South Africa
Open-cast mining, where coal is dug out of the ground through a giant, open pit, destroys habitats. South Africa has many of the largest open pit mines in the world. When these were established, a ...