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Definition of Sulphur mine
1. Noun. A mine where sulphur is dug from the ground.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sulphur Mine
Literary usage of Sulphur mine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored by Georg August Schweinfurth, Ellen Elizabeth Frewer (1874)
"Inducements to a second. Plan and object. Customhouse difficulties at Suez.
Scenes in the Governor's divan. Environs of Suez. sulphur mine of ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"... that in a trench of an old sulphur-mine in New Granada he was »Imo-t suffocated
and thrown into a violent perspiration by this gas, the heat of which he ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1861)
"M. Boussingault says that in a trench of an old sulphur-mine in New Granada he
was almost suffocated and thrown into a violent perspiration by this gas, ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1853)
"sulphur mine in Upper Egypt.—An extensive bed of sulphur has been opened in Egypt,
between the village of ..."
5. Mexico? Si, Señor by Thomas L. Rogers (1893)
"A curious combination that of ice-house and sulphur mine," said the Captain.
The mine has been worked steadily since 1849 ; the product is about four tons a ..."
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