The slate industry is the industry related to the extraction and processing of slate. Slate is either quarried from a slate quarry or reached by tunneling...

a slate industry in Wales is attested since the Roman period, when slate was used to roof the fort at Segontium, now Caernarfon. The slate industry grew...

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash...

natural slate used for roofing originates from the slate industry in Spain, with the region of Galicia being the primary source of production. Slate is a...

A slate is a thin piece of hard flat material, historically slate stone, which is used as a medium for writing. The writing slate consisted of a piece...

They are the primary product of the slate industry. . The Romans were the first to mine and install standard-sized slate on roofs. In his writings, Pliny...

cars that carried the slate in its various forms. These were first developed on the narrow gauge railways serving the slate industry of North Wales in the...

stone axes and, later, was also one of the centres of the Lakeland slate industry. Great Langdale is known to archaeologists as the source of a particular...

excluded from the park when it was established because of its slate quarrying industry. The boundaries of the Peak District National Park exclude the...

A clapperboard, also known as a dumb slate, clapboard, film clapper, film slate, movie slate, or production slate, is a device used in filmmaking, television...

population of 12,000 at the peak development of the slate industry, but fell with the decline in demand for slate. The population of the community, including...

In Wales, Pennant was a major figure in the development of the Welsh slate industry. He received an Irish peerage from George III in 1783, and died in 1808...

The Slate Industry in the Nantlle Valley was the major industry of the area. The Nantlle Valley is the site of oldest slate quarry in Wales at Cilgwyn...

in Gwynedd World Heritage Site. During the Industrial Revolution the slate industry rapidly developed; in the late nineteenth century the neighbouring Penrhyn...

commercial slate traffic from slate quarries and other mineral extraction operations along its route. During the first world war as well as slate other materials...

the district of Carnarvon in Wales, famous for its slate industry, because of the deposits of slate in the township which were once the site of a failed...

with the geological boundaries of slate deposits, and is based more on the region of the slate industry and slate production. Geologist Charles H. Behre [de]...

The Hunsrück Slate (German: Hunsrück-Schiefer) is a Lower Devonian lithostratigraphic unit, a type of rock strata, in the German regions of the Hunsrück...

Ramsey, D.A., (2000). Newtown Linford Notes and the Leicestershire Slate Industry. Bradgate and its Villages Series, 4. Ramsey: Groby. "McGrath" (2006)...

were one of the main exporters of slate in Europe. The village of Haut-Martelange formed around underground slate mines, which were established towards...

Industry is a television drama series that premiered in 2020. Created by former bankers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, the show follows a group of young graduates...

quarrymen to ride downhill on the steep inclined planes of a slate quarry. Most Welsh slate quarries were steep excavations into the mountains of Snowdonia...

has been slate quarrying in Wales since the Roman period, when slate was used to roof the fort at Segontium, now Caernarfon. The slate industry grew slowly...

Kerry Tramway in Mid Wales, in 1917. After varied service in the Welsh slate industry, Diana was purchased by railway enthusiast Graham Mullis in 1964. After...

Tintagel Slate Quarries fall into two categories: the series of quarries lying between Tintagel Castle and Trebarwith Strand on the north coast of Cornwall...

[baləˈxɯːl̪ˠɪʃ]) in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland, is centred on former slate quarries, and now primarily serves tourists in the area. The name Ballachulish...

Whitehead Greaves, who had been instrumental in the development of the slate industry around Blaenau Ffestiniog. He spent much of his childhood at his father's...

museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of relicts of the Slate industry in Wales. The museum is an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial...

Narrow-gauge railways were often used by the slate industry because of their low cost and ease of operation. Nicholson, Peter (1975). Industrial Narrow...

Monson, Maine. The primary purpose of this railroad was to serve several slate mines and finishing houses in Monson. According to the Scientific American...