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Ruby Alaska a gold rush town on the Yukon River

Genealogy and history of Ruby, Alaska.

Scottish Mining Website

Main focus is on Lanarkshire and Fife but information is available on all areas of Scotland.

Silverwood Mine

The history of a coal mine in South Yorkshire England 1900 to 1996, with listing of 3,000 miners on a linked searchable database for genealogist. This site links families worldwide.

Slatesite

Wales. Project to digitize materials for learning about Wales' late quarries, the lives of the quarrymen, & about the uses for slate.

St. Agnes Tin Mines

Cornwall, England.

Stone & Quarrymen of the West Country

England. Genealogical Index of Stone Workers and Related Occupations in Cornwall and Devon.

The Baddesley / Baxterley Pit Explosion 1882

A history of the Baddesley / Baxterley pit explosion in 1882 in Warwickshire England. Details of the men involved and their families, including a list of those killed and those who won Albert Medals for bravery.

The Coalmining History Resource Centre

UK's largest and most comprehensive website concerning the history of coalmining - including a searchable database of over 164,000 recorded accidents and deaths.

The History of the Treadwell Mines, Alaska

From the Bureau of Land Management's Juneau Mineral Information Center.

The Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania

Western Pennsylvania coal mines listings of known mines and other information about the mines and some links have miners that worked in each mine.

Underground Coal Mining Disasters and Fatalities --- United States, 1900--2006

Welsh Coal Mines

Welsh Mine Links

West Virginia Coal Mines

Yorkshire Main Colliery

The site covers the history of the Yorkshire Main Colliery at Edlington near Doncaster as well as most of the other Yorkshire pits.