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Introductions

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TomFerry
Mining info

General Mining Chat

General chat about mining and exploring

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Oreexplorer
Mine rescue simulated exercise

Digging

A place for all you nutters to show off your work

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cantclimbtom
Digging Projects 2025

Photography

Get help or show off your photography skills here
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Entries now open for the 49th International Speleological Photography Contest

Technical/Equipment

For discussion of gear and/or any technical aspects of mine exploration e.g. SRT

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Navigation

Mining Museums & Events

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dougle89
NAMHO Conference 2026

Marketplace

Buy and sell mining memorabilia and equipment
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ilt
BM 108 Memoirs 2019
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The Buddle Pit Minerals or gangue accepted

General Chat

No feasibility studies here - a place for conversation of various refinement and quality

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ChrisJC
Pit & Putt

Mines and Quarries Area specific mines chat

North East England

The Dales, Northern Pennines and the North East
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Wharfedale Lead Mines - Hebden (Yorkshire, 2026)
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North West England

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ilt
Fairbottom Colliery, Oldham
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Welsh Border and West Midlands

Wrehxam, Cheshire, Shropshire, Black Country, and Forest of Dean

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Alex
Apedale Colliery Discussion
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Peak District

Home of T'owd Man. Lead, Lead and more Lead

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pwhole
Winnats Pass

East of England & The Stone Belt

Bath to the Yorkshire Moors

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AR.
Box “cranes , cathedral, deterioration & death mask ! & old museum .
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South East England

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TomFerry
Colley Hill Hearthstone Mine - factory remains

South West England

Mendip, Devon and Cornwall

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Herodsfoot

North Wales

Flintshire & Gwydyr Lead, Snowdonia Slate, Gold, Copper and Manganese, Parys & Great Orme

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Blober
Maenofferen Works update May 2026

Mid Wales

The Lead and Silver mines of Mid Wales

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James Davies MAMC
Interesting discovery made with ROV submersible

South Wales

Including the Coalfields and Iron mines of the South Wales Valleys

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BertyBasset
Id the Album

Scotland

Lead, Coal, Barytes, Limestone, Strontium, Gold.
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Any adits at Ballachulish quarries?

Beyond Great Britain

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TomFerry
World's deepest Mine Marathon

Special Interest

For the more armchair based mine enthusiast

Book/DVD/Media Reviews

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TomFerry
NMRS 42

Mine & Mining History

Possession of a beard would be a distinct advantage for this subforum

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TomFerry
Do you know these people ?

General Industrial Archaeology

Manufacturing, Transport, Power

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ilt
Medwin & Hall Patent portable engine
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Geology, Rocks and Minerals

Strata, scrins and stockwork

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BertyBasset
Geological Pics - Post any interesting photo here

Genealogy

Find out about your family members who worked in the mines

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Wheal Butson - Genealogy

Organisations If your mine related organisation would like its own forum & moderator, get in touch with Buddlepit staff.

BCA

British Caving Association
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BCA AGM 2026 - Sunday 28th June, 10am in Monyash, Derbyshire.

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Site Updates
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ChrisJC
Armchair explorer background mapping
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