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  1. FIELDS OF COAL

    Date released
    Jun 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    345961
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: open-cast mining summarised from start to restoration of land in Northumbria NCB Commentary - Bigger and faster machines are the keys to the striking increases in production which have been...

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  2. Royal Diary - Queen in Scotland

    Date released
    3 Jul 1961
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1674
    NoS ID
    024167
    Story no
    1 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Diary - Queen in Scotland. DESCRIPTION: One of the Queen’s engagements in Scotland was to open Britain’s first Lurgi plant for producing gas from low-quality coal. The plant...

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  3. Silver: A Source of Power for the State: Evidence of Archaeology (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Archaeology; Classical studies
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., Sale as part of A209/VC1 only.

    The initial success of the Athenian empire was founded on the surplus revenue from the silver mines of the Laurion area. Examines how archaeologists go about testing such an idea. Uses excavations at the...

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  4. Energy Resources: Coal (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £55.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Identifies some of the geological complexities in coalfields and explains their origins. Illustrates how, as a consequence of changes in mining practices, more information is now needed about the geology of...

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  5. Mountains of Gold (1989 Video)

    Subject
    Economics; Environmental science
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1993 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the role of the EEC, the World Bank, and multinational mining companies in the destruction of the Amazon forest and how it is related to Brazil’s national debt? Filmed over four years at Sossego,...

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  6. Pine Point: Ore to Metal (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £55.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Detailed exploration gives the mining engineers at Pine Point an accurate model of ore before extraction. The programme shows the complex planning and subsequent operations required to eficiently mine the...

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  7. The Australian Scene: Open Cut Coal

    Date released
    18 Sep 1952
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1215A
    NoS ID
    018061
    Story no
    1 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Open Cut Coal. DESCRIPTION: Coal is always in the news - for no-one seems to have enough of it. In New South Wales, part of Australia’s supply comes from open cut mines, which produce...

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  8. OPEN DAY

    Date released
    Sep 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    346344
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Open Day at Point of Ayr colliery - a modern mine.

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  9. General Templer Sees for Himself

    Date released
    3 Apr 1952
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1191A
    NoS ID
    017708
    Story no
    1 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: General Templer Sees for Himself. DESCRIPTION: General Templer, High Commissioner in Malaya, included a visit to a tin mine in the State of Perak as part of his policy of seeing for...

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  10. Glengowla (2010 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 36 minutes), £12.95

    Glengowla lead mine near Oughterard, County Galway in Ireland started in 1851 and mining was suspended in 1865. During that short 14 year period, "160 square fathoms" was stopped to produce 390 tonnes of...

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