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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Springhill mining disaster, Westray Mine, Sullivan Mine, Kanichee Mine, Ekati Diamond Mine, Lupin Mine, Raglan Mine, Heath Steele Mines, Windsor Salt Mine, Tanco Mine, Pine Point Mine, Phoenix Mine, Giant Mine, Northland Mine, McIntyre Mines, Golden Giant Mine, Eldorado Mine, Rayrock Mine, Snap Lake Diamond Mine, Cigar Lake Mine, Drummond Mine explosion, Rabbit Lake mine, Birchtree Mine, Atlas Coal Mine, McArthur River uranium mine, Brunswick 6 mine, Buckles Mine, Stanleigh Mine, Cominco Mine, Caribou zinc mine, Brunswick 12 mine, Pronto Mine, Milliken Mine, Gunnar Mine, Nordic Mine, Spanish American Mine, Big Dan and Little Dan mines, Blue Hawk Mine, Copperfields Mine, Lacnor Mine, Can-Met Mine, Quirke Mine, Denison Mine, Panel Mine, Creighton Mine, Garson Mine, Beanland Mine, Hillcrest mine disaster, Stanrock Mine, Discovery Mine, Barton Mine, Camlaren Mine, Con Mine, Madawaska Mine, Wedge Mine, Murray Mine, Lorado Mine, Leckie Mine, Dome Mine, Ptarmigan and Tom Mine, Hedley Mascot Mine, Burwash Mine, Frood Mine, Copper Cliff North Mine, Bucko Lake Mine, Copper Cliff South Mine, Negus Mine. Excerpt: The term Springhill mining disaster can refer to any of three separate Canadian mining disasters which occurred in 1891, 1956, and 1958 in different mines within the Springhill coalfield, near the town of Springhill in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. The mines in the Springhill coalfield were established in the 19th century and by the early 1880s were being worked by the Cumberland Coal & Railway Company Ltd. and the Springhill & Parrsboro Coal & Railway Company Ltd. These entities merged in 1884 to form the Cumberland Railway & Coal Company Ltd., whose investors later sold it to the industrial conglomerate Dominion Coal Company Ltd. (DOMCO) in 1910. Following the third disaster in 1958, the operator Dominion Steel & C...