Tag:historic=mine
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 historic = mine
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Location of historic underground mine workings for minerals such as coal or lead.  
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| Group: Historic |
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Location of historic 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
resource=lead;silver
description=Lead and previously silver has mined here since Roman times
Associated Tags
- Where the sites of individual vertical shafts are known, you can additionally map then with historic=mine_shaft
- Where the sites of individual horizontal adits are known, you can additionally map then with historic=mine_adit
- Where a spoil heap can be clearly seen, for example on Bing imagery, you can outline it with man_made=spoil_heap[1]
- An area of (indistinct) shafts, spoil-heaps etc might be mapped with an area historic=archaeological_site