From Carlin How once again (this time captioned ”Loftus Mines”) the stables are centre foreground with Overmen’s Cottages behind them (lovingly named ”Hoss Muck Row” by the locals, for obvious reasons). Behind that the picking belt and heapstead.
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Another shot of Skinningrove Mine, looking straight onto it from Carlin How. The ”Zig-Zag” in the foreground with Duckhole just on the right. The stables left middle with Overmen’s Cottages next to them. Deepdale woods and the shale heap are right background.
I’ve never seen a view from this angle before and I’m still trying to get to grips with it. Carlin How in the background, with the ”Zig-Zag” cutting across the middle of the picture. The building directly in front is the loading shed where the iron ore was loaded into standard gauge wagons. I think I need help with this one please! I think the image was taken from the road from Deepdale woods to Skinningrove village.
A good image of Skinningrove valley, post-1911, showing just how busy this little valley was! On the left we have Skinningrove Mine, with the stables and just visible the Overmen’s Houses and on the right we have Duckhole Pit just coming into the picture. Liverton Mill takes the stage left of centre in the middle, the viaduct (now an embankment) away in the background and towering over it all in the haze is Liverton Mines shale heap. The sweep of rail track cutting through the image is the ”Zig-Zag”. The picture very obviously taken from Carlin How.
A close view of the chimney at the mine at Loftus as it slowly falls. I would suggest that this is Loftus (Skinningrove) mines chimney being demolished. This was the chimney at Loftus mines being felled in 1912.
It doesn’t always go smoothly underground – I can imagine this caused considerable hazard underground, loads of toxic fumes, smoke and, worst of all, a lack of oxygen.
An example of the immense working pressures involved. This pillar was located in the far south of the mine in a panel mined late 2001 and completed early 2002, (and the instability of the crystal structures involved, possibly). (image courtesy of A Franks and information kindly supplied by Tim Coleman – who actually took this image when he was the Rock Mechanics Engineer at Boulby.)
An accident at Boulby Potash, the vehicle has gone from one level to another the short way! (image courtesy of A Franks)
Just to show that even modern mining isn’t without its hazards, here’s an image of a roof fall caused by the somewhat unstable (in air) compound Carnalite. (Carnalite (KMgCl3·6H2O, hydrous magnesium and potassium chloride). Carnalite crystallizes in a rhombic system and has a hardness of 2.5, the same as the finger nail. It usually displays a granular structure. Carnalite can be colourless, pinkish or reddish, always with a vitreous gloss. Carnalite is deliquescent, it dissolves even in the air humidity. Its taste is salty, spicy after the potassium and bitter after the magnesium content – from a web definition, rodders)
Sometimes it just isn’t your day! Running repairs on a big Cat! (image courtesy of A Franks) |
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