W.D. & H.O. Wills

Mining

Stock ID: 08b

Full set of 50 antique cigarette cards.

This series consists of the following subjects:

• 1. Asbestos — Quarry at Thetford, Canada
• 2. China Clay — Open-cast Mine, St. Austell, Cornwall
• 3. Coal — Mine Surveying
• 4. Coal — An Electric Coal-cutter
• 5. Coal — Miner Drilling for Blasting
• 6. Coal — A Miner “Holing”
• 7. Coal — An Electric Train
• 8. Coal — Taking Coal to Pit Mouth
• 9. Coal — The Bottom of the Shaft
• 10. Coal — Sorting and Cleaning Coal
• 11. Copper — Calcination of Copper Ore, Rio Tinto, Spain
• 12. Copper — Open-cast Mine, Rio Tinto, Spain
• 13. Diamonds — Kimberley Mines , 1880
• 14. Diamonds — Mine at Kimberley, South Africa
• 15. Diamonds — Premier Diamond Mine, South Africa
• 16. Diamonds — Washing and Concentrating Plant, South Africa
• 17. Diamonds — Searching Tables, Kimberley Mines
• 18. Gold — Mount Morgan Mine , Queensland
• 19. Gold — Descending a Mine, South Africa
• 20. Gold — compressed Air Drill, South Africa
• 21. Gold — Stamp Battery, South Africa
• 22. Gold — Cyanide Vats, South Africa
• 23. Gold — Panning at Klondyke
• 24. Gold — Dredging for Gold, North America
• 25. Iron — Open-cast Mine in the Urals, Russia
• 26. Iron — Iron ORe Mine, Grangesberg, Sweden
• 27. Iron — Steam Shovel at Work, USA
• 28. Iron — Unloading Iron Ore, USA
• 29. Marble — Cutting Marble in a Belgian Quarry
• 30. Marble — Channeling Machine at Work
• 31. Marble — Lowering Large Blocks, Carrara, Italy
• 32. Mica — Mine in Bengal, India
• 33. Oil — Oil Field at Baku, Russia
• 34. Oil — An Oil Field in the Sea, Southern California
• 35. Oil — Oil Field on Fire, Texas
• 36. Platinum — Raising Alluvial Gravel, Russia
• 37. Platinum — Washing Alluvial Gravel, Russia
• 38. Plumbago — Mine at Kurnegalle, Ceylon
• 39. Radium — Mining Pichblende, Cornwall
• 40. Rubies — Mine at Mogok, Burma
• 41. Rubies — Sorters at Work, Burma
• 42. Salt — Mining Rock Salt, Northwich, Cheshire
• 43. Salt — Mine at Northwich, Cheshire
• 44. Salt — Mine at Wieliczka, Galicia
• 45. Sapphires — Digging and Washing Sapphires, Queensland
• 46. Silver — Broken Hill Mines , NSW
• 47. Silver — Mechanical Feed, Broken Hill NSW
• 48. Tin — Mine at Camborne, Cornwall
• 49. Tin — Open-cast Mnie, Perak
• 50. Turquoises — Mines near Nishapur, Persia