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[tomferry]

Well it was a mine this one not a quarry  :tease:

 

[Cantclimbtom]

I'm not biting on that bait...

 

[RobinGriffiths]

I'll bite...

Quarry is though to be derived from the Latin quadraria - hewn (squared) stone - hence you get stone from quarries, minerals from mines!!

 

[mikem]

But stones are made of minerals...

 

[tomferry]

I personally call
dinorwig a quarry
Maenofferen a mine  is this correct 

 

[RobinGriffiths]

I've said enough...

 

[sinker]

I personally call
dinorwig a quarry
Maenofferen a mine  is this correct 

Semantics.

However, a few of the Victorian 'subterranean slate extraction facilities' were referred to as "underground quarries"; this because the word "quarry" had a different meaning in law to the word "mine".

The details escape me but I'm sure Cwmorthin was one?

 

[tomferry]

Enough said on my behalf  getting confused I shall 

 

[Fishes]

Well we have an official stone mine in Derbyshire. It was for high purity lumps/powders though, rather than architectural stone.

No weed was smokes or taken in any form when creating this post.

 

[markpot]

And said Derbyshire stone mine is still accessible 

 

[cavemanmike]

The limestone workings at the bottom of olwyn goch in the milwr tunnel is referred to as a quarry.
This was posted under the influence of decaf tea

 

[Paul Marvin]

Simon from AN told me all mines in Wales are classed as quarrys wether under ground or above and he knows more than most of us put together 

 

[mikem]

Owners tried to claim they were quarries as the health & safety was less expensive than being classified a mine.

 

[Fishes]

And said Derbyshire stone mine is still accessible 

No comment.

 

[markpot]

 

[Speleofish]

Aren't the freestone mines around Bath classified as quarries? Not to mention the portland stone 'mines' around Swanage? If so, it suggests that a mine removes rock for the purpose of refining its contents whereas a quarry takes the rock to be used in its entirety. As both involve removing the rock in the first place, the distinction seems a little academic.

 

[mikem]

It is academic nowadays, but the mines inspectorate formed 1843, whilst quarries weren't subjected to similar regulations until 1895, so was quite important for 52 years of Victoria's reign:
https://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/timeline/index.htm

 

[royfellows]

My understanding is that a quarry is a place where construction material is extracted, whether surface or underground. All other extraction sites are mines, again whether surface or underground.

 

[mikem]

But have been used interchangeably at many sites for generations (they all started off at the surface)...

Coal has always been mines or pits, things become less clear cut with stone!

 

[Fjell]

I believe a mine in the UK is still legally defined as subsurface as per the 1954 act. This is entirely due to the substantial HSE issues related to working in a confined space.

Everything else is a quarry, although many would assert a quarry is a mine anyway. People call a coal quarry a mine to maintain clarity for all concerned.

The original meaning of quarry as a verb is to cut and shape large blocks of stone (from latin), so I would tend to think only that should count as a quarry for purists. Everything else is a mine. It leaves open the tantalising prospect of saying the Bath stone mines are actually quarries, and probably would have been called such by the Romans.

I avoid mines and quarries. Smacks of work or something. Ditto digging.