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  1. Terrible Price, The - Gresford 1934 (2006)

    Director
    Martin Smith
    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (60 minutes), £15.99

    A documentary about the Gresford (Wrexham) mining disaster of 1934. Shown on the 70th anniversary of the disaster on BBC in Wales only, this film tells the story of a man-made tragedy which cost the lives of...

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  2. Mining for Platinum

    Date released
    13 Jan 1930
    Series name
    Pathe Pictorial
    Issue no
    615
    NoS ID
    348432
    Story no
    3 / 6

    NoS synopsis: mining for platinum in Columbia

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  3. Weekend of Geophysics, A: Basic Exploration Techniques (1978 Film)

    Director
    John S Murray
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes the activities of a group of Scottish teachers and pupils attending a field course in exploration geophysics. The course was sponsored by the Mineral Industry Manpower and Careers Unit and run by...

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  4. Prince Visits Mining Districts

    Date released
    3 Feb 1929
    Series name
    Empire News Bulletin
    Issue no
    289
    NoS ID
    049612
    Story no
    6 / 7

    Slade catalogue entry: The Prince’s Tour. HRH Prince of Wales Visits the Mining Districts of Northern England.

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  5. Uranium Hex (1987 Film, Video)

    Director
    Sandra Lahire
    Producer
    Sandra Lahire
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Using a kaliedoscopic array of experimental techniques, the film explores uranium mining in Canada and its desctuctive effects on both the environment and the women working in the mines. Images range from...

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  6. Looking at Steel (1971 Video)

    Director
    A Pendry
    Producer
    J Carr
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Free loan (2005), Videocassette. VHS. col. 17 min.

    The British steel industry in action. Commencing with open cast mining of iron ore, shows each stage of the main manufacturing processes that are required to produce steel for industry as sheet, rod, billet,...

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  7. Solomon and Gaenor (1998 Film)

    Director
    Paul Morrison
    Producer
    Sheryl Crown

    Feature film. A loose reworking of the Romeo and Juliet story. Set in a small coal mining village in Wales in 1911, a young Jewish peddler (Solomon) meets Gaenor, the eldest daughter of a Christian mining...

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  8. City of Gold (1957 Film)

    Director
    Wolf Koenig; Colin Low
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A re-creation, with the aid of contemporary photographs, and based on old-time prospectors’ recollections, of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896, the events and personalities which were part of it, and the...

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  9. Get Coal or Else! Shinwell - Mix to - Background to Mining Crisis - By Man from the North

    Date released
    15 Apr 1946
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1578
    NoS ID
    039978
    Story no
    4 / 4

    Problems confronting coal industry surveyed. Minister of Fuel calls for increased output. Typical Yorkshire miners express men’s point of view.

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  10. 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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