Sentence examples for drift mine from inspiring English sources
You can even go down into the "10-yard seam" of the drift mine.
There are plans to open a new, community-owned drift mine less than 10 miles from the Caphouse museum.
In Ashland, visitors to Pioneer Tunnel can take an underground tour of a horizontal drift mine that runs 1,800 feet into the side of Mahanoy Mountain.
Their quest to break into the world's largest intelligence agency begins with a raid on a drift mine, followed by an underground shoot-out in which they are ranged against 12 snipers who kill everyone in sight.
This was followed by a tram track, a drift mine, a Co-op store, East Stanley board school, Eston's medieval church, terraced housing, a fairground carousel, flocks and herds of local sheep and cattle and much else.
For the three months to the end of June ,94% of all Welsh coal came from opencast sites, the remainder from drift mines.
There are two drift mines of a similar size to Gleision which have licences but none are in production at the moment.
The NFV is an area of extremely mountainous topography where drift mines can encounter depths of cover that exceed 600 m.
The Gleision tragedy threw a spotlight on the nature of some of the small drift mines that were once dotted around Wales, but the reality of modern day opencast mining is as far removed as you get can from a pit like Gleision.
Lethbridge's economy developed from drift mines opened by Nicholas Sheran in 1874 and the North Western Coal and Navigation Company in 1882.
