pithead
Mine's surface opening
The pithead is the area at the top of a mine shaft, including the surface structures and equipment for raising ore or coal and lowering miners.
It encompasses the winding gear, buildings, and immediate surroundings where mining operations meet the surface: Workers gathered at the pithead before the morning shift.
Mine shaft superstructure
Narrow vertical passage
- hoistRaise with tackle
- seamJoined fabric edge
- coalfaceActive mining surface
- extractionAct of removing
ventilation · tunneling · tub · tram
One who excavates ore
- collierUnderground fuel extractor
- hewersThose who chop wood
- puttersShort-range golf clubs
- trapperOne who catches animals
deputies · overman · shift · wages · union · strike · workforce · knocker-up
headframe
Mine shaft superstructure
colliery · tippler · washery · weighbridge
shaft
Narrow vertical passage
extraction · ventilation · tunneling · tub · tram
miner
One who excavates ore
trapper · deputies · overman · shift · wages · union · strike · workforce · knocker-up · butty
anthracite
Highest-grade coal variety
- bituminousContaining natural tar
- ligniteLow-rank sedimentary fuel
- slackAbsence of tautness
culm · duff · grading · washing · screening · loading · dispatch · bunker · stockpile
regeneration
Biological self-repair process
canary
Yellow caged songbird
- explosionViolent burst of energy
- evacuationRemoval from danger
- minemine shaft, adit, drift, crosscut, raise
- gold mininggold pan, pan, panning, nuggets, gold nugget
- Industrial heritagefactory, mill, foundry, ironworks, steelworks
- Industrial Historyfactories, cotton mills, coal mines, power stations, mill ponds
- Mining Heritagecolliery, coal town, mining town, mining settlement, mining camp
- Welsh historyironworks, steelworks, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport