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Roman Deep-vein Mining
13 Mar Open-pit mining and strip mining are the two major categories of surface Many metals are mined by the open-pit technique: gold, silver and copper, . include materials handling, slips and falls, machinery, hand-tool use. Introduction; Types of Roman Mining; Mining Tools; Underground workings; Special Some earlier mines, such as the Greek silver mine of Laurion, had a Roman ground by strip-mining the surface ("the debris of undermined mountains").
Surface Mining Methods
Description:One cause of the rising demand for coal in Britain was the depletion of the woodland and supplies of charcoal, making manufacturers anxious to find a new source of fuel. Of particular importance were experiments of the iron industry in using coal instead of… History Archaeological discoveries indicate that mining was conducted in prehistoric times. Apparently, the first mineral used was flint , which, because of its conchoidal fracturing pattern, could be broken into sharp-edged pieces that were useful as scrapers, knives, and arrowheads. During the Neolithic Period , or New Stone Age about — bce , shafts up to metres feet deep were sunk in soft chalk deposits in France and Britain in order to extract the flint pebbles found there. Other minerals, such as red ochre and the copper mineral malachite , were used as pigments.
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