Mine cages and trams passed through the usual self-closing air doors.

Cuckoo spit, she thought, watching a working man emerging from a mining cage with an inappropriate smile on his blackened face.

A water extraction pipe fell away from the shaft wall, crashing onto an ascending double-decker mine cage.

They borrow this, free the secondary mine cage, and the Doctor goes down the shaft with Dave and two other miners.

The lower levels of the workings were accessed via lift shafts, and mining cages were used during construction.

An instant before the cable was ignited the mine cage with two station tenders aboard had been lowered into the mine.

And we'll be mining ten and twenty miles deep with those mine cages you talked about -' But Gail let go of her father's hands.

If the air pumps stopped, if the mine cages froze halfway down the mile-deep shafts .

Over a dozen volunteers were loaded on the mine cage, among them, the assistant foreman, Sallau, whose carbide light had inadvertently caused the blaze.

Chemical & energy - filters, centrifuges, drying machine baskets, battery separator plates, water screens, gas purifiers, liquid gas burning tubes, mine cages, coal washing, etc.

The largest compartment is typically used for the mine cage, a conveyance used for moving workers and supplies below the surface, which is suspended from the hoist on steel wire rope.

Several Australian mining innovations were made at the Ballarat diggings including the first use of a Chilean mill in 1851 and the first use of a mine cage in 1861.

In the intervals of press work, he acted as Secretary to the Parliamentary Boards on State Schools, Safety Mining Cages, Wattle Bark, etc., and to the Royal Commission on the Tariff.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hunan Nonferrous Metals Corp Ltd said it was conducting an investigation into an incident in which two falling mine cages killed 26 people and injured five at a mine of the company on October 8.

This need can arise in scuba diving, freediving/spearfishing, skydiving, fast descent in an aircraft, fast descent in a mine cage, and being put into pressure in a caisson or similar pressure-bearing structure, or sometimes even simply travelling at fast speeds in an automobile.

He had to forbid her riding on the outside of the mine cage on the H'am main incline shaft to film the drop into the pit, but she went back later, while he was in a meeting with his mine manager, and got exactly the shot she wanted and then smiled away his fury when he found out.