Tag:historic=mine
 historic =
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Location of historic underground mine workings for minerals such as coal or lead. 
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Location of historic underground mine workings for minerals such as coal or lead.
How to Map
Add historic= to a node. The name of the mine and the main mineral(s) mined can also be added if known.
Examples
Simple example:
historic=
name=Shilton Colliery
Or you can expand with more information to help eventual set up a gazatteer of world mine locations:
historic=
name=Green How Hill
resource=lead;silver
description=Lead and previously silver has mined here since Roman times
Associated Tags
- If the mine is still in production, use
landuse=industrial+industrial=mineinstead. - Where the sites of individual vertical shafts are known, you can additionally map then with
historic=mine_shaft - Where the sites of individual horizontal adits are known, you can additionally map then with
historic=mine_adit - Where a spoil heap can be clearly seen, for example on Bing imagery, you can outline it with
man_made=spoil_heap[1] - An area of (indistinct) shafts, spoil-heaps etc might be mapped with an area
historic=archaeological_site