Industry Mining Footage - WPA Film Library

Industry Mining

IRON MINE AT BOLIVAR MOUNTAIN At Bolivar mountain, dynamite explosion, iron ore on truck, train & conveyor belt to ship.

COPPER MINE - NEW MEXICO New buildings and a 500 foot chimney under construction at a copper mine in Chino, New Mexico.

NEWS FROM AFRICA The Rand Show in Johannesburg is enjoyed by thousands. South Africa.

U.S. COAL MINES Item showing American coal mines, plus housing and healthcare for the miners.

JOHN L LEWIS PRESS CONFERENCE American Miners Leader John L. Lewis holds press conference.

Prospecting for Opals in Coober Pedy

ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE Scenic footage of the mining area

BEVIN BOYS A look at life for 2 young men conscripted as coal miners, Albert Swaisland and Richard Kent.

SHINWELL WITH THE MINERS Emanuel Shinwell meets miners and families.

Prospecting for Opals in Coober Pedy

NEW COAL HAULAGE VEHICLE New coal haulage vehicle in Mulheim, Germany.

NEWS FROM AFRICA The Rand Show in Johannesburg is enjoyed by thousands. South Africa.

DUTCH GIFT OF BULBS TO MINERS The Dutch Government donate flower bulbs to Miners' Welfare Society. Ashstead, Surrey.

QUEEN MOTHER VISITS COPPER MINES

GETTING BACK TO WORK The miners strike is settled and we see the mines being prepared for work again.

MINING Coal Mine & Miner's Club

WHITEHAVEN MINE DISASTER Rescue workers at mine where explosion has trapped 107 miners.

THE DUKE OF YORK Duke of York (later King George VI) visits industrial sites in

RADAR HELICOPTER GOES PROSPECTING RADAR HELICOPTER GOES PROSPECTING A radar helicopter goes prospecting for minerals.

SHINWELL WITH MINERS Shinwell giving speech to the miners regarding the nationalisation of the mining industry.

MOVING A HILL Big machines work in a quarry.

COAL CRISIS Welsh miners cast their votes in a strike ballot, they are demanding a reduction in the price of coal.

NATIONAL COAL BOARD CONCEIVED Mines are handed over to National Coal Board.

BRICKS FOR 10 HOUSES A DAY Process of brick making - from clay digging to a house building.

BLACK MINERS FIRST AID Black miners First Aid competition

Gold Dust in Hand

PRINCESS DOWN MINE Princess Margaret visits Calverton Colliery coal mine in Nottinghamshire

OPEN CAST MINING FOR ZINC AND LEAD Explosions blast rock, rock arrives at factory, lead & zinc separated through floatation process.

PRINCE WITH THE MINERS - SHOTS OF PITHEAD Prince of Wales dons overalls and helmets and walks towards mine with miners.

Old Gold Mine

COPPER MINES OF KING SOLOMON BEGIN WORKING AGAIN Ruins of King Solomon's Mines, new copper workings, Armed Guard patrolling.

FUEL CRISIS - UK Shots of the exterior of Battersea power station with heaps of coal around.

MINERS SCHOOL boys at coal mining school

COAL MINING Coal Miners at Work in Tunnel

Salt

Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Rescued Pennsylvania Miners (Media Blitz)

COLOMBIAN INDIANS HARVEST SALT FROM SEA WATER Women carry sacks on their backs to lay in the sun to dry & with tree bark fluid on their faces.

COAL MAN AND CITY GENT Derek Nairn is coal man during day, and salesman in the evening.

IDLE PIT HEADS DURING MINERS STRIKE

Carrara Marble Quarry

STRIP MINING Fork lift truck fills truck in open quarry.

IDLE COAL MINES AND COTTON MILL Cotton mill out of work due to coal shortage.

IMMENSE COAL RESERVE IN RUSSIA Open cast coal mining in Soviet Union.

Chilean Factories and Industry: Gold Mine

WHITHER AFRICA? Prime Minister Harold Macmillan embarks upon a tour of Africa.

OPEN CAST MINING IN RUMANIA Rumanian mines at work.

COAL MINING The process of coal mining underground.

Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Rescued Pennsylvania Miners (Media Blitz)

ONE MAN COALMINE One man in Northumbria operates a pit all on his own.

QUEEN AND DUKE VISIT JOS - AND DUKE VISITS TIN MINES

THRO' ICE TO SEA Iron ore is transported by ship from St. Lawrence, Canada to Philadelphia

The Golden West: The Story of the Gold Rush

Coal Mining

400,000 TONS OF COAL ARE FISHED FROM BOTTOM OF SUSQUEHANNA RIVER EVERY YEAR Coal Pumped from Susquehanna River

FLAMING DEATH Coal dust is exploded in a Pittsburgh mine shaft to judge the effect of the explosion.

THE QUARRY FOLK OF SHROPSHIRE Stone Quarry in Shropshire

BLASTING A LIME STONE QUARRY IN YORKSHIRE Dynamite explosion blasts a limestone quarry in rubble.

JEDBURGH'S BIG BLAST Quarrymen explode rock for road making at Jedburgh, Scotland.

NEW "BATTLE OF ARRAS" Miners in France parade against unemployment and poor conditions.

Uranium

RUSSIAN INDUSTRY Miners at work below ground - some are women.

Nature's Treasure: Potash Boom In Canada

Gold bars

NEAR THE SANDS OF VENDEE Sea Salt Harvesting

Salt Mine

Miner panning in creek

Gold Mining

A COPPER GOLD MINE Men at work at an open copper mine

Defy DeGaulle: French Miners Continue Strike

Mining Boom In Canada

Strip Mine

Saar Votes Union With Fatherland

U.S To Fight 50-Year-Old Mine Blaze

Times Square 'Browns Out'

Of All Things #67: Gold Mining

Uranium In The Hills Of A Ghost Town

News in Brief: Salt Harvest

Weighing gold part 1

Panning for gold

Panning for gold part 2

Weighing Gold part 2

Miner at Creek

TINSTONE - HOW IT IS OBTAINED IN A CORNISH MINE Processing Tinstone at Cornish Tin Mine

THE CHALK GETTERS - A WHARRAM STUDY Chalk Crushed & Transported

THE GRANITE MEN - FILMED AT DALBEATTIE, SCOTLAND Granite Quarry: Explosion, Splitting & Cutting Blocks

PYRAMIDS OF CORNWALL - A WEST CARCLAZE STUDY Clay Pits in Cornwall

Panning for gold & black and white

Panning for gold

THE BIGGEST SCOOPER OF ALL Giant dredger in the Golpa coal mines of Germany is demonstrated.

DOWN IN THE QUARRY - SOMETHING STIRRED Explosions in limestone quarries in Bowes, Darlington.

SALT CELLARS Salt mines in Cheshire - brine is extracted and dried out to produce salt.

119 Die! Trapped in Shaft in Coal Mine Blast.

Prospector Finds Gold Mine

THE MINERS OF MANGANESE Men work at the manganese mines of Morocco.

Mine Explosions Staged To Teach Safety Measures

Ghost Towns

COTSWOLD STONE AND CHIPPING CAMDEN Stone quarrying and views of the quaint town of Chipping Camden

"Continental Guests" Visit Factory, etc., 1920's

Coal Miners at Work and at Home, c. 1920's

Gold Rush in South Africa; c.

Coal Mining Town Visited by Prince of Wales

Chile's Valley Of The Moon

Emerald Mine Bonanza

Queen Visits Mine

Iron Mountain Blown Apart

Rescue Workers In Dramatic Race

Massive Earth-moving Shovel

25 Years Ago.

300 Die In German Mine Disaster

Mine Disaster: 37 Trapped By Explosion

News in Brief: Air Prospecting.

Salt 'n More Salt

Atom Security: Underground Vaults to Safeguard Treasures

$5000,000 Runway Built For Daring Pilots At Mountain Gold Mine

Countryside Mourns As 38 Victims Perish In Fatal Mine Blast

"Shoestring' Miners Get Rich As Gold

City Gold Rush Starts

Black Damp Kills Two Miners

2 Miners Rescued After Being Buried Alive For 3 Days

Grief-torn Kin Wait As Heroes Hunt 152 Mine Blast Victims

MIDDLE EAST WORKERS Rebuilding work goes on in Middle East.

COAL STRIKE IN AMERICA Strikers and workers during the coal strike in America in 1941.

Mining Morton

THE STONE AGE OF TODAY Granite is blasted from the hills of Eastern Poland and broken up to be sent away.

Mining Complex

MALTA QUARRY AND MEGALITHIC STONES Men break up limestone slabs in Malta quarry. Also shows ancient temples.

FRENCH COAL STRIKE Coal Miners Strike In France

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - SCOTTISH QUARRY BLASTING

Gold Miner

EVERY LITTLE HELPS A new fund for stricken miners and their families is opened.

TERRIBLE MINE DISASTER Men gather at coalmine in Scotswood to try and rescue 38 men trapped inside.

WELSH COLLIERY DISASTER Sorrowful scenes at the pit head in Monmouthshire.

COAL MINE Miners arriving to work in new Calverton Colliery.

COAL TRUCKS Volunteers from local cricket team help to clear coal from railway sidings and get it on its way.

REACTIVE DRILLING Engineers operating an air-burning drill in a stone quarry.

COAL CRISIS London kids collect up every last scrap of coal while Miners' wives protest against the strike.

KEEPING THE HOME FIRES BURNING Striking miners discover and work little coal mines off their own.

EVERY LITTLE HELPS A new fund for stricken miners and their families is opened.

KING OF SPAIN IN A COAL MINE King Alphonso XIII of Spain visits Seaham Harbour Colliery.

TERRIBLE PIT DISASTER A rescue party attempts to reach trapped miners after a pit disaster in Falkirk.

COLLIERY DISASTER miners at Pendleton Colliery in Lancashire where 8 were killed in disaster.

SCOTTISH COLLIERY DISASTER Mining disaster at the Stirling Coalfield

A LUCKY ESCAPE Pit head collapses in Glasgow wrecking wagons and winding gear, luckily no one is hurt.

136 MINERS KILLED The flag at a Ruhr coalmine is flown at half mast in memory of 136 miners killed in explosion.

PEACE HATH HER HEROES Welsh Colliery disaster: rescue teams emerge from pit.

TERRIBLE COLLIERY DISASTER Awful pit explosion in Germany kills more than 250 pe

LANCASHIRE PIT DISASTER Bleak shots of coal mining community after 19 lives are

AGAIN KING COAL TAKES TOLL! Shots of the coal mine in Ashton-in-Makerfield where

SUMMER SKIING German skiers ski all the year round on chalk slopes.

OCEAN DRILL IS TESTED New ocean going drilling machine is tested in the North Sea, Scotland.

MINERS BIG DAY Large parade and speeches at the traditional Durham miners' gala.

THE GRANITE MEN OF POLAND Men at work in a stone quarry in Klesow, Poland.

JUST PUMICE Pumice stones are extracted from quarries in Lipari, Italy.

BOOM The side of a rock face being dynamited in a quarry.

FOR THE WELFARE OF THE MINERS Viscount Chelmsford inspect shower cubicles at Mainsforth Colliery

SALT OF THE EARTH Different methods of mining salt are shown in Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada.

ALL EYES ON SINGAPORE Imperial troops guard Singapore in which there is much interest.

CINETOPICALITIES IN BRIEF (NO. 108) A safety device for coal mine lifts.

COAL AND THE WAR Item about coal production and economical use of fuel.

THE SPITZBERGEN RAID Allied soldiers destroy island of Spitzbergen to stop Germans exploiting resources.

A MARBLE CLOUD Blast in Carara Mine releases 100,000 tons of high quality marble.

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL Quarry Blast

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - QUARRYING COMPETITION

WORLD'S 4TH LARGEST DIAMOND Diamond as large as chicken egg is found in South African mine.

UNDERWORLD HEROES The Ilkeston Mines Rescue Squad in training and on a practice exercise.

GOING INTO COAL Scientist experimenting with coal dust in laboratories.

ALL MINE A demonstration mine open to the public in Virginia, United States of America.

CINEVIEWS IN BRIEF (NO. 11) Apatite mining

CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA (NO. 72) Asphalt mines of Ragusa.

CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA (NO. 66) The salt harvest in Portugal

RUSSIA'S SALT CELLAR A very salty lake in Soviet Union, a look at industrial process used to separate salt from water.

SALT BY THE ACRE Good footage of the salt fields in Cagliari in Sardinia.

MINE DISASTER IN WALES Most terrible colliery disaster since the war happened at Gresford near Wrexham.

PIT DISASTER NEAR BARNSLEY Pit Disaster near Barnsley & Florida Hurricane.

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - DUCKMANTON COLLIERY DISASTER

WITH A MIGHTY ROAR! A limestone quarry in Germany - dynamite blows apart the fac

IDLE PITS EVERYWHERE (long version) Shots of deserted collieries abandoned by miners taking part in General Strike.

COAL STOPPAGE COMPLETE? - A strike in the South Wales coal field brings mining t

COAL ... O ! Footage of men competing in coal race,

WEALTH FOR SOME PENURY FOR OTHERS A diamond rush in South Africa.

FULL SPEED AHEAD FOR PROSPERITY NOW Coal being loaded onto ship at Hull, bound for Italy.

A BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY! Out of work miners try to gather fuel for their homes from colliery slag heaps.

4,300 FT BELOW EARTH'S SURFACE British Farmers touring South Africa visit the famous Robinson Gold Mine.

A BIG BANG 16 charges of high explosives are used to blow out rocks at Llandullas Limestone Quarries in North Wales.

YORKSHIRE COAL CRISIS Sailors from "HMS Lion" are seen working with pit machinery during the coal crisis.

MINISTER OF SUPPLY VISITS TROSTRE WORKS Members of the Iron and Steel Institute visit a state-of-the-art tin works in South Wales.

SOUTH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE MINERS TRAINING Boys being trained to be miners.

PRINCE GEORGE ... MINER! The Duke of Kent pays a visit to the South Wales Coalfi

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald visiting Fuel Research Station.

THE PRINCE...PIT LAD Prince Edward visits a pit and dons miners overalls.

PRINCE WITH MINERS Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, with a group of miners.

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - RESCUED MINERS IN NOVA SCOTIA

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - STAKHANOV - RUSSIAN COAL MINER

SEEING FOR HIMSELF Alderman Ben Turner inspects coal mine at Barmborough as part of his tour of the Yorkshire collieries.

MR. A. J. COOK Miners' Secretary, A. J. Cook, unveils banner bearing portrait of Lenin and himself.

Andean gold mine

Selected originals - P.M.'S BIG WELCOME Material relating to newsreel story "P.M.'s Big Welcome" - 60/11.

BEAUTY OR STEEL? Cotswold residents protest against iron ore scheme which threatens to destroy countryside.

PIT PONIES Various shots of pit ponies and homing pigeons.

THE GHOST TOWN OF LUCKNOW The deserted scenes in Lucknow, Australia. Once a prosperous mining town

SEARCH FOR THE 13. Search for 13 miners trapped in collapsed mine shaft. New Cumnock.

£16,000 EDWIN MAKES A NEW START. Miner, Edwin Midgley explains that he will go back to work after £16,000 football pools win.

SUBSIDING TOWN Mining subsidence in a Swadlincote causes buildings to fall apart and roads to slope.

GERMANY RUHR COAL CONFERENCE Ruhr Coal Conference held at Essen.

RETURN TO KLONDIKE Holiday makers take a visit to the old Gold Rush towns of the Klondike.

PRINCESS IN WALES Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon visit Caernarvonshire in Wales.

COAL STRIKE SETTLED John Lewis and Julius Krug announce coal strike is settled. America.

MINERS RALLY Workers from 107 Yorkshire coal mines gather for annual rally and gala. Rotherham.

SLATE QUARRY An item about the world's largest slate quarry at Port Dinorwic in Wales.

SLATE QUARRY Good footage of men at work in a slate quarry in Wales.

NEWS IN FLASHES - BIGGEST QUARRY BLAST

CONTROLLED MINE EXPLOSIONS Explosions at the face of experimental coal mine shaft.

ABERFAN DISASTER - CUTS Various footage from Aberfan one year on after the mining disaster.

MINERS DRAMATIC RESCUE Workers are rescued after collapse of roof in French limestone mine.

MINE DISASTER TRAPS 260 Underground fire traps 260 miners in the 'Bitter Heart' colliery at Marcinelle.

MINES RESCUE STATION Mines' rescue crew at Wakefield on practice exercise.

MINE BLAST - SULLIVAN USA Mine blast in Sullivan, Indiana kills twenty.

DENVER GOLD MINING (LNER) Streets of Denver dug out - allegedly there is gold under them.

GOLD'S IN BIG DEMAND Little gold diggers trying to cash in after rise of gold prices.

MINE DISASTER IN U.S.A. Families waiting around the pit after mine disaster in Birmingham, USA.

BLOWING UP A MOUNTAIN Long shots of an explosion in a marble quarry in Italy - h

LAND GIANT IN ACTION A massive grab digger is shown in action in a Corby Ironstone quarry.

NORTHUMBERLAND WALKING DRAG LINE 3,000 ton drag line being used for open cast coal mining in Northumberland.

THE SUPER SCOOP Brief item about a massive machine used for scooping coal from the ground in Cologne, Germany.

THE SALT OF THE EARTH Visitors to the Austrian Tyrol take a tour of the salt mines, where they have to dress in traditional mining costume.

GOLD IN ABYSSINIA Gold mining in Abyssinia in Ethiopia, Africa.

JIBOUTI'S SALT CELLARS African men work on the salt marshes of Jibouti.

MINING ON THE LEVEL A look at a mining process begun at ground level.

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - LIMESTONE QUARRY EXPLOSIONS

BANG Rock is blasted from a quarry in the stone valleys of Caprona, Italy.

KING COAL Good shots of workers in a new Italian coal mine near Trieste.

THE GOLD DIGGERS - OF OLD MEXICO Great footage from the gold rush town of Mesquite Springs in Old Mexico.

"THE GOLD RUSH OF 1933" American government policy leads to a reopening of gold mines.

A COPPER GOLD MINE Men at work at an open copper mine

4,300 FT BELOW EARTH'S SURFACE Party of British farmers visit a gold mine in South Africa.

WEALTH FOR SOME...PENURY FOR OTHERS Dramatic scenes as young and old race to stake claims.

COKE MAKING Coke production in Beckton works, London.

WORK OR WANT WEEK MAKES THE HEADLINES (aka OPEN CAST COAL MINING NEAR LEEDS) Large scale opencast mining may help with the fuel crisis.

SALT MINE A close look at the process of mining salt in Cheshire.

AUSSIES STRIKE IT RICH. Australians start another gold rush after finding a big nugget in a back garden.

TOKYO SILVER RAISED FROM HARBOUR Silver, gold and platinum dumped into water during the war, is reclaimed by divers in Tokyo.

GOLD IN JOHANNESBURG A look at the process of gold mining in Johannesburg.

QUEEN IN SCOTLAND The Queen in Scotland to see the new Lurgi gassification plant.

SERPENTINE ROCK An item about the quarrying of Serpentine Rock and the souvenirs made from it.

BLUE JOHN A family in Derbyshire mines a precious rock known as Blue John.

BIGGEST GOLD MINE OPENS Opening of new gold mine in South Africa.

DEAD SEA Story showing girls floating in the Dead Sea, the salt works and Ein Geddes waterfalls.

IRON ORE SCHEME A massive Iron Ore mine is underdevelopment in Tasmania.

OLD SANDSTONE QUARRY TO CLOSE A sandstone quarry in Sydney Australia is to close

OPEN CAST MINING IN RUMANIA Rumanian mines at work.

POLAR REGION - POLYMETAL MINING TOWN OF TALNAH Views of Talnah in the Soviet Union

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - MILLION TON BLAST AT CARRARA

KING COAL TAKES TOLL The injured are treated and bodies recovered after gas explosion in coal mine

DUKE IN YORKSHIRE Prince Philip visits new laboratories in Sheffield (B.I.S.R.A.) and goes down mine at Edlington

SHINWELL WITH MINERS Emanuel Shinwell addressing miners in colliery - probably on nationalisation of mines.

COAL MINE Miners working at Bestwood coal mine, Nottingham.

MR. SHINWELL WITH THE MINERS Minister of Fuel and Power Mr Shinwell visits Abercynon Colliery in South Wales.

AROUND SCOTLAND The coal mines are taken into the people's ownership.

WILL LAWTHER NCB Will Lawther, President of the National Union of Mineworkers, speaking from his desk.

JOHN PARSONS WITH MINERS John Parsons interviews miners about unemployment.

DRIVE FOR COAL - GOVERNMENT CHIEFS VISIT DURHAM MINERS Government Ministers arrive at Durham Miners' Gala.

INDUSTRIAL SURVEY NO 7 MINES NEED D.P. LABOUR - A REPLY FROM WALES Miners in Wales discuss the possible introduction of foreign labour into the pits.

WORLD AT YOUR ELBOW - PRIVATE ENTERPRISE Start of the last coal mine to be sunk under private enterprise in Fyfe, Scotland.

MINING SCHOOL Schoolboys are taught mining along with traditional subjects at Deresford Colliery, Nottingham.

ONE MAN COAL MINE Bram Pashley runs his own small coal mine at his home in Wakefield, Yorkshire.

INDOOR COAL MINE (UPSTAIRS COAL MINE) Converted warehouse in South Wales is model coal pit to train young miners.

MY NEW COAL PLANS SHINWELL Minister for fuel and power, Emanuel Shinwell, makes his case for Nationalisation of the mines.

RUHR MINE EXPLOSION TRAPS 550 Mining disaster in Germany; only 70 miners are rescued, 11 of those are dead.

ONE MAN COAL MINE A man works in a small coal mine at the bottom of his garden.

BERLIN AIRCRAFT Coal airlifted in Berlin during the blockade.

END OF FRENCH COAL STRIKE Coal miners return to work at end of strike

POLISH COAL WORKERS Polish coal miners at work.

RUHR STEPS UP COAL AND STEEL PRODUCTION Coal mining and steel making.

TOM EASTWOOD STRIKES COAL - 400,000,000 TONS A new coal field is identified near Lichfield in Staffordshire.

TOM EASTWOOD STRIKES COAL Eastwood and Smith talking, diagram of geology of the area and map.

Berlin Blockade

NEWS IN FLASHES - EDDIE THOMAS IN TRAINING.

Selected Originals - PRINCE PHILIP DOWN MINE Material relating to newsreel story 'Prince Philip down mine' - 52/30

Selected Originals - DUKE IN YORKSHIRE Material relating to newsreel story "Duke in Yorkshire" - 53/90

AIRMEN START A GOLD RUSH Troops in California search for gold

MR.GRIFFITHS SEC OF STATE VISITS NORTHERN RHODESIA British Minister for the Colonies visits a copper mine and the Victoria Falls in Zambia.

TROSTRE TIN WORKS (Reel 1) Assorted material about tin mining in Wales.

WOOL FROM VOLCANOES In Sicily, spun lava is used for from soundproofing to glamorous gowns - extraordinary story!

SALTY BUSINESS A look at the work of Britain's only surviving crystal salt works at Maldon.

URANIUM CITY IS BORN Shots of Uranium mine and the town being built to service it - Eliot Lake, Ontario.

A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND Christie's retain their biggest ever diamond at a price of £65,000. London.

DIAMOND MINING IN SOUTH AFRICA Diamond mining in Oranjemund, Namibia

THIS MINE IS MINE A Welsh miner has his own private mine.

LET THEM WORK Hungarian refugees train to be miners hoping they will be allowed to work.

THE QUEEN AMONG MINERS Queen Elizabeth goes underground to inspect a new coal mine in Scotland.

HIGH SPEED COAL COMBINE Gumennik an inventor & Kovaltchuk chief of Baydayevskaya Mine in the Kuznetsk Basin.

COAL TRUCKS Coal trucks passing, workmen filling sacks, coal stacks.

SURPLUS COAL STORED

36 MINES MUST CLOSE A look into the closure of coal mines and the switch to the use of gas for heating.

YANOVSKY HYDRAULIC COLLIERY Coal washed away with water to be sent up to surface & piped to the concentrating mill.

Strike Grips Nation - Belgian Nationwide...

A MILE OF COAL! A massive train carries a huge amount of coal through South Australia.

Giant Coal Excavator - Ekibastux Mine - Kazakhstan

Advanced Mining Technique Cu

New Device Used In Hungarian Coal Mine. Gv

Coal Mine Disaster.

Coal Mine

FRENCH COAL STRIKE Miners striking in France - idle mines.

MECHANICAL COAL HANDLING Mechanical Coal Handling Exhibition is held at Marylebone, London.

GOLD AND SILVER MAKE RARE FINDS - GOLD PROSPECTING IN CANADA

GOLD FIND IN THE WICKLOW MOUNTAIN Gold is found in the Wicklow mountains in Ireland (Eire).

GOLD MINING METHODS South African mining process.

GOLD MINING METHODS (REEL 2) Methods of mining in South African town.

FRENCH ALCHEMIST AT WORK

MINE TRAINING Italian students make a model of a mine to learn how it operates.

Ore Project Opened In Labrador.

Mercury Production In Russia. Vs

CANADA PASSES THE SALT A look at work in the salt mine of Ojibway, Canada.

SALT SMUGGLING IN SICILY Huge mound of salt, shots of women running away to conceal their identity.

Industrial Mining-tin New Tin Plate Plant At...

Industrial Mining (uranium) Uranium Mine Gv

MARBLE QUARRY IN RUMANIA

50 YEARS OF UNION A look back at 50 years of the Union of South Africa.

COAL MINE Miners working at Bestwood coal mine, Nottingham.

MINESWEEPERS Miners at work in Stobswood colliery.

OPEN CAST MINING open cast mining at Temple Newsam near Leeds, Yorkshire.

MINERS Bevin Boys conscripted to coal mines prepare for work.

PERCY HASEMAN PARKINSON VICTIM Yorkshire miners collect money for friend's operation.

Music Down Mine Vs

GOLD AND DIAMOND MINING IN JOHANNESBURG

SEA SALT Working salt plant in Barletta, Italy.

SALT MINE Men working in Meadow Bank salt mine.

SALT MINE Men at work in Meadow Bank salt mine.

STONE MEN OF WALES Good study of a large stone quarry

RUSSIAN HEALTH SUBSTANCE Ancient Russian balsam called Mumiyo extracted for use in pharmaceutical industry.

COAL MINE Life model of coal miners being set up for museum

WE DIG COAL

THE LIME MEN Lime Quarry in Yorkshire

GOLD FROM WALES Gold Mining in Wales

Nickel Rifinery

THE FINEST IN THE COUNTRY New pithead baths are opened at coal mine in Ebbw Vale in Wales.

Challenge of Change, R1

Baraka-Pt. 1 Pan and Scan

Alert

New Gold Rush

Twenty Tons Of Dynamite Explode In Terrific Blast

Coal Miners Hold Sit-Down Strike Deep Under Ground

Coal Strike Over - New Contact Ends Nine-Month Walkout.

Industry

Mining

CHINA CLAY China clay is obtained from the Little Treviscoe Pit near St Austell in Cornwall.

Selected Originals - AUSSIES STRIKE GOLD. Material relating to newsreel story 'Aussies Strike It Rich' - 50/29.

FLOWER POTS flower pot making

A TALE OF TALCUM! Men gather talcum rocks at an Oregon quarry while women powder their faces with it.

BRICKS BY THE MILLION Bricks made a Peterborough brickworks and two chimneys demolished in Washington DC.

PEEPS THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE WORLD (NO. 74) Phosphorite mine

UNTER DEM OBERSALZBURG (aka MINE, BERCHTESGADEN - MINING FUHRER'S TUNNEL) Shots of a salt mine near Berchtesgaden in Germany.

NEVADA STRIKE STARTS GOLD RUSH Prospectors hunt for gold in hills of Nevada.

COAL STRIKE IN AMERICA Strikers and workers during the coal strike in America in 1941.

DIAMOND MINING A look at diamond mining in South Africa and some of the jewellery which is produced as a result.

CHINA CLAY Clay is extracted from man-made pits then turned into powder in St Austell.

ENGLISH INDUSTRIAL AND POVERTY SCENES Good scenes of declining British industry and poor housing.

RUSSIAN COAL MINE Soviet miners work extra hard to supply coal for their troops fighting the Germans.

CINEVIEWS IN BRIEF NO 64 lead mining in Italy

CINETOPICALITIES IN BRIEF (NO. 47) A miners' initiation ceremony.

CINETOPICALITIES IN BRIEF (NO. 45) The salt mines on the Black Sea

THE SUPER GIANT A huge digging crane scoops clay out of a quarry.

WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? No 1 Drill hits strange substance

BLACK DIAMONDS a working coal mine

SALT FROM THE SEA Men at work on the salt fields of Tunis.

CINETOPICALITIES IN BRIEF (NO. 6) A Missouri limestone mine

RICHES OF THE EARTH Wild West gold mining towns compared with industrial gold mining of present day

PEEPS THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE WORLD (NO. 17) Austria's granite quarry.

CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA (NO. 71) a model coal mine

MINING FOR RADIUM Radium is mined in Czechoslovakia and patients at the Jachymo Institute undergo radiation treatment

MINERS OFF TO FIND THEIR FORTUNE

STONE MEN OF WALES Good study of a large stone quarry

CORNISH TIN MINE DISASTER Shots of the Broken shaft at the Levant Tin Mine in Cornwall that caused many deaths.

Manchukwo Industry

GERMAN NEWSREEL Coal mine disaster in the United States.

QUARRY AND GOAT A goat and pig are mascots of a limestone quarry.

IRONSTONE Iron ore being excavated to make weapons in Lincolnshire.

OUTCROP COAL Outcrop coal is mined near Leeds and then the ground is used for planting crops

SALT MINES Item showing salt being mined and packed in Punjab, India.

DYNAMITING A MOUNTAIN A mountain is blown up with dynamite causing fragments of limestone to fly far and wide.

IDLE PITS EVERYWHERE (short version) Shots of deserted collieries abandoned by miners taking part in General Strike.

Stone Quarry

OPENING OF NEW CALVERTON COLLIERY Opening of the new Calverton Colliery in Nottinghamshire.

France Analyzes its Coal Production

Old Gold Mine

BRICKS Educational film showing various stages of brick making.

CHALK how it is quarried, broken up, transported etc.

CHINA CLAY processes involved in obtaining clay from the ground.

CHALK how it is quarried, broken up, transported etc.

CHINA CLAY processes involved in obtaining clay from the ground.

LUMBERING IN NORTHERN ONTARIO Educational film showing work in timber industry in Canada.

SPEECH ON NATIONALISATION OF COAL Emanuel Shinwell makes speech about Nationalisation of Coal Industry.

TIN MINING Educational film about tin mining in Cornwall - various processes illustrated.

SLATES Educational film showing how slate is quarried and used for roofing.

Italian Village Saved By Explosives

WORLD NEWS REVIEW People searching for uranium in Gunnilake village.

BLACK DIAMONDS a working coal mine

ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE Scenic footage of the mining area

MINING Coal Mine & Miner's Club

Mine Footage

COAL MINING IN ARGENTINA Argentine miners at work on the coal face at Rio Turbio.

Gold Rush Historical Recreation

Rosenborg Castle Artifacts: Riding Trappings

Rosenborg Castle Artifacts: Amethyst

Rosenborg Castle Artifacts: Order of the Elephant and Order of Dannebrog

Rosenborg Castle Artifacts: Display Case

Selected Originals - URANIUM CITY IS BORN

ENGLISH PAIR WIN DANCING TITLE Harry Smith-Hampshire and Doreen Casey win European Professional Ballroom Dancing title.

Selected Originals - ENGLISH PAIR WIN DANCING

Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Rescued Pennsylvania Miners (Media Blitz)

MINING AT JOHANNESBURG FOR GOLD AND URANIUM

IN THE MOUNTAINS OF KABARDA - TYRNY-AUZ Miners arriving at mine, and of them at work.

Trailer: MR SHINWELL ON COAL Coal is the Key.

INDUSTRIAL TOWN OF VASMU Shots of industrial town, processing of mineral ore.

PIT PONIES STILL GOING STRONG DOWN UNDER

TROCQUER AND MAGINOT Re-Occupation of Ruhr industrial District Leads to Economic Collapse

Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Rescued Pennsylvania Miners (Media Blitz)

TOWN COMES TO LIFE AFTER LONG STRIKE Australian mining town regenerated after months of strike action

Old Gold Mine & Museum

Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Rescued Pennsylvania Miners (Media Blitz)

GIANT CRANE AIDS COAL MINING Open cast mining in process.

PRAIRIE POTASH Canadian prairie's need for fertilizer

US COAL PROBLEMS Good shots of a Dakota mining town and coal miners at work.

ALL PITS IDLE Navy workers take over the work during the coal strike of 1921.

GUINEA GOLD Mud and stones are dredged for gold in New Guinea.

THE MARBLE MEN Cutting and Transporting Marble

GOLDMINE A look at a large gold prospecting concern in New Guinea.

NEWS FROM AFRICA - SWAZILAND'S NEW RAILWAY New railway is being build in Swaziland.

WILL IT BE WEALTH UNTOLD? Mining company digs for silver in farm land in Ireland.

NEW COAL MINING MACHINE New coal mining machine being tested at mining institute in Russia.

NEW STEEL MILL IN ANDES A look at a new steel mill in the Andes.

Steel Mill Operations

COAL MINERS TAKE CHARGE Workers run a colliery in United States of America.

NEW COAL MINES FOR THE RUHR Item showing new miners in the Ruhr as part of drive to replenish industry. Germany.

DUTCH BULBS FOR MINERS British miners accept goodwill offering of bulbs from Holland.

DUKE OF EDINBURGH OPENS COAL BOARD EXHIBITION

QUEEN MOTHER VISITS COPPER MINES

Salt Refining Plant

DUKE OF EDINBURGH IN CORNWALL Prince Philip visits Geevor tin mine and Melbur clay pit in Cornwall.

Prospecting for Opals in Coober Pedy

STRIKE IN THE RUHR AREA Nearly a million German workers bring German industry to a standstill.

MALAYA aka MALAYA AT WORK tin mining

PORTLAND STONE Famous Portland stone before and after - from rocks off Dorset coast

WINTER HARVEST Gathering salt from large salt flats.

Dredging for Gold

Mining in the Mountains

MINERS STRIKE General views of idle mine areas.

SILVER MINING IN ONTARIO Various shots of silver being mined - all processes are featured from finding the vein to transportation.

SIDELIGHTS ON THE COAL SITUATION Miners' representatives listen to an address by Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell.

SALT HARVEST A look at the process of gathering sea salt.

DUTCH BULBS FOR MINERS Footage of Lord Walter Citrine planting bulbs at Chislett Colliery in Kent.

Coal Mining

SLATE QUARRY Men working in Scottish slate quarry.

SHINWELL WITH MINERS Shinwell giving speech to the miners regarding the nationalisation of the mining industry.

COALMINE IN THE SKY Canadians mining coal from 7000 feet high up Rocky Mountains and bring it down in trucks.

IRON ORE FOUND IN MOUNT BOLIVAR Iron ore found in Venezuelan mountain.

Gold Mining

Coal Mining

Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Rescued Pennsylvania Miners (Media Blitz)

SOUTH AFRICA GOES South Africa leaves the Commonwealth.

SALT A look at how salt is mined, processed and packed

RECORD OUTPUT OF TATABANYA COAL MINE

GYMNASIUM IN MINING TOWN OF VORKUTA People at work in Soviet mine and then playing basketball in gymnasium.

CORNISH TIN MINING - CAMBORNE Tin mining in action and it being processed to separate the tin content.

PRINCE PHILIP DOWN MINE The Duke of Edinburgh visits a big Lancashire Colliery.

SHINWELL WITH MINERS Shinwell giving speech to the miners regarding the nationalisation of the mining industry.

U.S. COAL MINES Item showing American coal mines, plus housing and healthcare for the miners.

RUSSIAN HEALTH SUBSTANCE Ancient Russian balsam called Mumiyo extracted for use in pharmaceutical industry.

Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Rescued Pennsylvania Miners (Media Blitz)

MARBLE QUARRY Shots of marble being quarried

PIT PONIES Various shots of pit ponies and homing pigeons.

QUEEN MOTHER VISITS COPPER MINES

AUSTRALIA FINDS VALUE IN SAND - VALUABLE MINERALS DISCOVERED UNDER WINDSWEPT BEACHES Excellent story about the restoration of Australia's beaches

MINING Coal Mine & Miner's Club

GOLD AND DIAMOND MINING IN JOHANNESBURG

Mining & Refining

COAL MINING IN ARGENTINA Argentine miners at work on the coal face at Rio Turbio.

Down Mine Shaft

THE MARBLE MEN Cutting and Transporting Marble

NEWS FROM AFRICA The Rand Show in Johannesburg is enjoyed by thousands. South Africa.

RAND EASTER SHOW Glittering diamond display is top feature of Rand Easter Show.

MINING FOR PLATINUM Mining for Platinum in Colombia

Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Rescued Pennsylvania Miners (Media Blitz)

ESKIMOS MINE THEIR OWN COAL Eskimo miners digging coal from cliff face, Husky dog teams pulling loaded sleds.

Coal Mining on a Budget aka "Steal This Coal Mine"

Trailer: COALS OF FIRE telling people not to waste coal as it is needed for battle.

MINERS RALLY, BAKERS STRIKE Miners demonstrate against pit closures, and bakers strike causes bread shortages. Wales.

Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Rescued Pennsylvania Miners (Media Blitz)

BIG BLAST AT WESTMORELAND Footage of huge explosion in Westmoreland.

GEM STONES TO BE FOUND IN AUSTRALIA Precious stones found in Oberon, Australia.

COPPER MINE IS IN ACTION AGAIN Coper mine in Cobar, Australia, is working again.

Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Rescued Pennsylvania Miners (Media Blitz)

DIAMOND NECKLACE TOWARDS WAR COST A Diamond Necklace is Sold at Christie's in Aid of the War Effort

Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Rescued Pennsylvania Miners (Media Blitz)

Andean gold mine

GIANT DRAGLINE The world's largest mobile dragline (giant bulldozer) in action.

NATIONAL COAL BOARD CONCEIVED Mines are handed over to National Coal Board.

DUKE VISITS COLLIERY Duke of Edinburgh visits Bevercotes Colliery in Nottinghamshire.

Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Rescued Pennsylvania Miners (Media Blitz)

COAL STRIKE OFF John L Lewis calls of coal strike. United States of America.

OPINION POLL - IF YOU WERE MR SHINWELL Into the streets to ask people about the Fuel Crisis and the position of Mr Shinwell.

COAL STRIKE IN USA Footage of coal strike in the USA.

P.M.'S BIG WELCOME Harold Macmillan visits gold mine and meets Swazi warriors on his tour of Africa.

COAL MINES SUNDERLAND Shots of collieries in Sunderland.

NATIONAL COAL BOARD IN SESSION National Coal Board in session - shots of meeting in progress.

COMMUNIST TROOPS TAKE OVER MINING PORT IN INDOCHINA

YAKUT DIAMONDS Diamonds are found in Yakutia, Russia.

Miners

NATIONAL COAL BOARD CONCEIVED Mines are handed over to National Coal Board.

THE MARBLE MEN Cutting and Transporting Marble

Prospecting for Opals in Coober Pedy

Coal processing factory

MODERN METHODS AT BEVERCOTES COLLIERY Wagons being loaded with coal by modern methods at Retford colliery, Nottinghamshire

LIGNITE QUARRY Italian electricity generators are built to be powered by Lignite.

DUKE GOES DOWN MINE (aka DUKE AT RHONDDA VALLEY) Prince Philip goes down a coal mine during his visit to Rhondda Valley to give a new charter.

ENERGY Surreal item examines numerous different forms of energy.

GOLD PROSPECTING gold mining in Lanarkshire.

Mining Ore for Steel

DUKE OF EDINBURGH IN CORNWALL Prince Philip visits Geevor tin mine and Melbur clay pit in Cornwall.

DEEP SHAFT SETS RECORD - SOUTH AFRICA South African gold mine competes with Soviet mine for world's deepest shaft.

Cement Industry

SEA - BED COAL From a specially built tower men drill the bed of the Firth of Forth to test the coal layers.

STRIP MINING Fork lift truck fills truck in open quarry.

Flashpoints USA w/Bryant Gumbel & Gwen Ifill - Rescued Pennsylvania Miners (Media Blitz)

Hydraulic Mining

MALTA QUARRY AND MEGALITHIC STONES Men break up limestone slabs in Malta quarry. Also shows ancient temples.

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL Mrs Roosevelt down a coal mine.