Miner's safety lamp

Miners used safety lamps such as this from the nineteenth century to light underground mines. In coal mines they shielded the naked flame from potentially explosive mixtures of methane and oxygen.

Location

Australia
Queensland Museum
Salford, Manchester, England
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
250mm
80mm
80mm

Mount Crosby Ipswich coalfield, 1972

1 January 1972
17 November 2010
17 November 2010
Brisbane
Department of Mines

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Department of Mines, Mount Crosby, Ipswich Coalfield, 1972. Lease register. An example of a thematic map produced by the Department of Mines. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

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