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Loads of bee activity in our Stafforshire garden today, with dozens of these male Andrena mining-bee emerging and swarming about. I think it's Andrena nigroaenea; the Buffish Mining-bee.
An old mining building beside the Miner's Track, Llyn Llydaw, below Snowdon, Snowdon National Park, Gwynedd, North Wales
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From the road I spotted this which looked like it was from the same mining structure - some sort of metal and wood - this was no way I could had gotten closer - rats.
There's no mistaking Broken Hill's heritage as a mining town. New mines are opening and the city is littered with relics from past mining endeavours.
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The son of Italian immigrants, Ettore DeGrazia was born June 14, 1909, in the Morenci mining camp of Territorial Arizona. His early childhood experiences in the ethnically diverse community evolved into a lifelong appreciation of native cultures in the Sonoran Desert and a passion to create art depicting their lives and lore. Happy Birthday Anniversary DeGrazia!
Unidentified mining bee (Andrena) foraging on skunkbush flowers. Hidden valley, Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada. 10 May 2024.
Badbury Rings, Dorset
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The dry weather for the past weeks has caused the local archaeology to become more obvious. A trip out with a drone today yielded evidence of coal pit shafts dating from the late 18th or early 19th century. This previously unrecorded shaft could have been anything up to 250 ft deep and worked with a horse gin. It was certainly already disused by 1826.
The president of the Erie Mining Company railroad historical society, and its only member, at Knox in 2000. Tour guide extraordinaire Doug Buell.
A pair of Ashy mining bees (Andrena cineraria) mating on my colleague's hand. Ashy mining bees are a species that appears in the spring and they will be around until June time.
Mount Isa, Queensland from City Hill Lookout. Three years after blood screenings found 11 per cent of Mount Isa's children had lead poisoning, some with dangerously high levels of other metals, Xstrata has declared it won't be able to meet a deadline to clean up its emissions by next year. The Swiss-based miner is seeking a five-year extension to progressively meet the government-ordered targets over Mount Isa residences while it tries to deal with the problem, and a total exemption on emissions controls in a 20km zone to the west of the smelting operations. (Source: The Australian 09/06/2011)
Lead, copper and zinc mining operations have been active in the Mount Isa region in north Queensland, Australia since 1923. Xstrata assumed control of Mount Isa Mines in 2003. Prior to 1990, historic practices, such as uncontrolled releases of storm water from mining areas, donations of mine-site fill material for use in the community and a leak from the process water dam caused some areas of lead contamination in Mount Isa. (Source: Xstrata Zinc)
I have to love it when their Reserve Mining SD38-2 shows its face. Great ROC (required ore content).
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Before the line between Burngullow and Probus was singled in 1986, the track around the area of Dowgas had strengthening ties added outside the rails to counteract mining subsidence and can be clearly seen here as 50 011 "Centurion" passes with 1E91, the 08:53 Penzance - Newcastle
The line was redoubled again in 2004, but the distinctive strengthening ties were not resinstated
The end of an era as the last of the former Erie Mining units have left the plant. Fortunately they will find a new life on the Vermilion Valley Railroad in Illinois/Indiana.
A male Ashy Mining Bee (Andrena cineraria). I've spotted these locally, but haven't seen one in the garden yet. This male was at a large nesting aggregation in South Staffordshire.
Sego Ghost Town.
Henry Ballard, one of the founders of Thompson Springs, discovered an exposed vein of anthracite coal in Sego canyon in 1908 while exploring the many canyons of the Book Cliffs. He quietly bought the land and began to hire local laborers to mine the coal. The coal camp was naturally called Ballard. In 1911 the town was renamed Nelsen after the company general manager. In 1918 the town was again renamed Sego after the Sego Lilly so common in Utah.
To see more of this interesting abandoned mining town check out my album here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/albums/72157704203388472/