Typical of a mining map, it was all in numbers and without names.

The wind fluttered his mine map as he looked at it.

It also serves as a location to retrieve mine maps in an emergency.

Rescue engineers had desperately pored over mine maps and then took their one best guess at where the men might be.

He went back hurriedly to the mine maps.

With the mine map on the information board, visitors can gain insight into the size and complexity of each mine system.

However, it was a distinct mining community with its own coal mines see mine map 336094, located in Beckley.

This information is input into the Mine Map Index System.

The situation is of course quite different when we turn to Afghanistan-where, incidentally, the Soviet-installed regime has released its mine maps.

The United States has refused even to give its mine maps of Indochina to civilian mine-deactivation teams.

Safety regulations require 200 feet of solid rock to surround newly excavated mines, but officials noted that older mine maps often proved inexact.

It serves as a point of reference for mine maps and other information for both surface and underground mines throughout the United States.

In addition, they collect, reproduce, and maintain a national inventory of mine maps and supporting documentation for private and public interests.

"Anthills," said Ms. Bargmann, who has pored over every seam and tunnel of the mining maps.

Above, feverishly checking mine maps for elevation points near where the miners were working, engineers picked a spot and began sinking a five-inch air pipe.

Headlamps, miners' shrines and old mining maps are on display, and photos depict conditions in the shafts from the early years to the present.

The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 established a national mine map repository.

By 2004, CONSOL Energy had donated a vast collection of records, survey books, photographs, and mining maps.

The NMMR utilizes different types of scanning equipment to facilitate archiving mine maps made available in a variety of media.

The NMMR, in addition to being an archival entity concerned with the preservation of mine maps, is also a basic reference file of information on mines.

But the British organization, so far, is the only foreign group to have seen the mine maps, and the only one to have attempted to work through the Kabul Government.

The Wilkes-Barre repository was closed in 2011, and its collection transferred to the Pittsburgh office, which is designated as the National Mine Map Repository.

Its coal mines and a portion of its community (See Mine Map 322942) resided in the vicinity of Amigo, located in Raleigh County, West Virginia.

The preservation of historic mine maps took on increased importance following the Quecreek Mine Rescue in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where the rescue was hampered by faulty maps.

Through analysis of mine maps and related information, the repository assists private and public sectors in industrial and commercial development, highway construction, and the preservation of public health, safety, and welfare.