Tag:historic=mine

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Description

Location of abandoned underground mine workings for minerals such as coal or lead.

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Can be attached on nodes Can not be attached on ways Can not be attached on areas Unknown or not included in the template

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Experimental industrial archeaology tag, not part of Map Features.

Location of abandoned underground mine workings for minerals such as coal or lead.

How to Map

Add historic=mine to a node. The name of the mine and the main mineral(s) mined can also be added if known.

Examples

Simple example:

historic=mine
name=Shilton Colliery


Or you can expand with more information to help eventual set up a gazateer of world mine locations:

historic=mine
name=Green How Hill
mineral=lead;silver
description=Lead and previously silver has mined here since Roman times
wikipedia:en=Greenhow

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