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unusual facts about Mining accident



Minnie Pit Disaster

The Minnie Pit disaster was a coal mining accident in Halmer End, Staffordshire, UK in which 155 men died.

Warington Wilkinson Smyth

He became president of the Geological Society of London in 1866–1868, and in 1879 he was chairman of a Royal Commission appointed to inquire into coal mine accidents, the work in connection with which continued until 1886.


see also

Kameradschaft

Pabst took an actual historical event, a mining accident in 1906 in Courrières, France, where rescue efforts were hampered by the lack of trained mine rescuers.

Kings Bay

Kings Bay Affair, the political aftermath of a mining accident which caused a cabinet to resign

Unorganized North Algoma District

Operations ceased due to a financial panic in the United States and a fatal mining accident.