An historic photograph showing a tub of shale arriving at the surface of a shale mine in West Calder, Scotland. Burngrange Shale Mine was owned by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co., on 10 January 1947, the mine experienced its worst underground mining disaster. Fifteen miners perished when firedamp was ignited by an open acetylene cap lamp

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Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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