Some of the mines are thought to date to the 1600s. For the most part, miners in the Garden State were after iron ... have a steam engine delivered from England to pump out its shafts and tunnels.

Each time the cage went up the shaft it could be carrying 1 ton of high grade iron ore or 8 miners.The cage came from the last mine to be worked, Moorbank, Hodbarrow. It was used by miners to ...

Cages are normally suspended on a steel winding rope, attached to the drum of the winding engine via ... The headgears are the iron and brick towers that stand over mine shafts.

Each time the cage went up the shaft it could be carrying 1 ton of high grade iron ore or 8 miners.The cage came from the last mine to be worked, Moorbank, Hodbarrow. It was used by miners to ...