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- 20:07, 2 April 2026 Mining Record Office — sources on the origin of the MRO (hist | edit) [18,420 bytes] Scotfot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "= Mining Record Office — sources on the origin of the MRO = == Timeline == {| class="wikitable" |- || 1836 || The initial impetus for the establishment of the Mining Records Office came from a great mining disaster that happened in Co. Durham in 1836, when water from old workings burst into a mine and many miners lost their lives. |- || 1838 || At a British Association Meeting in Newcastle in 1838 Sopwith read a paper urging the importance of collecting and preservi...")
- 12:02, 25 March 2026 History of the BGS Mine Plans Search (hist | edit) [17,478 bytes] Rtalbot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== Background to maps held by the British Geological Survey === Mining has occurred in Great Britain since approximately 2700 BCE. A diverse range of minerals has been extracted by underground mining, from industrial minerals such as limestone to precious metals like gold. Plans, sections and shaft information exist, recording many of these workings. However, with the exception of coal mining, there has been no coordinated effort to catalogue and create a national dat...")
- 20:28, 17 March 2026 Ephemera - index, GA 'Carreck Archive' (hist | edit) [9,274 bytes] Scotfot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "There are two sets of ephemera in the GA Carreck Archive, GA154 and GA048. Both are included on this page. Note: Indexing is ongoing.")
- 00:47, 17 March 2026 Czechoslovak Republic: Post-Cards - index, GA 'Carreck Archive' (hist | edit) [7,024 bytes] Scotfot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[https://largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/seadragon/geolsoc.html?id=GA047_0001 Item 1] [https://largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/seadragon/geolsoc.html?id=GA047_0002 Item 2] [https://largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/seadragon/geolsoc.html?id=GA047_0003 Item 3] [https://largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/seadragon/geolsoc.html?id=GA047_0004 Item 4] [https://largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/seadragon/geolsoc.html?id=GA047_0005 Item 5] [https://largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/seadragon/geolsoc.html?id=GA047_0006 Item 6] [https://larg...")
- 00:40, 17 March 2026 Sun Album. Geological ABC of North Cornwall - index, GA 'Carreck Archive' (hist | edit) [4,882 bytes] Scotfot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Pages== [https://largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/seadragon/geolsoc.html?id=GA153_0001 Image 1] [https://largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/seadragon/geolsoc.html?id=GA153_0002 Image 2] [https://largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/seadragon/geolsoc.html?id=GA153_0003 Image 3] [https://largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/seadragon/geolsoc.html?id=GA153_0004 Image 4] [https://largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/seadragon/geolsoc.html?id=GA153_0005 Image 5] [https://largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/seadragon/geolsoc.html?id=GA153_0006 Image...")
- 11:43, 25 February 2026 Bob Payne Collection - GA 'Carreck Archive' (hist | edit) [4,797 bytes] Scotfot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "= Bob Payne Collection - GA 'Carreck Archive' = Obituary (from magazine of the Geologists' Association Volume 13 No. 4 December 2014.) Robert (Bob) Payne May 1929 – August 2014 Bob was born in North London and started work in 1943 in the building & construction industry, progressing to senior site management on contracts all over the London area and Scotland. He had spells working abroad, in Khartoum, Gibraltar, Kuwait, Muscat and Bahrain. On retiring in 1992, havi...")