
Mining Wikipedia
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer depositThe exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic viability of investing in the equipment, labor, and energy required to extract, refine and transport the materials found at the mine to manufacturers who

Derbyshire lead mining history Wikipedia
T'owd Man, Wirksworth It has been claimed that Odin Mine, near Castleton, one of the oldest lead mines in England, may have been worked in the tenth century or even as early as Roman Britain, but it was certainly productive in the 1200s [1] [2] [3] Derbyshire lead mines are mentioned in the Pipe Rolls Recent analysis of a Swiss icecore