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The Goldfields Mining Centre is a very well known tourist attraction. Here you can see a replica of an old Chinese mining village and pan for gold.
One or two of my ancestors emigrated from the United Kingdom. Even today the regions they left behind rank poorly in the wealth stakes. Cornwall and Devon it seems have not gained from the passage of time and I wonder if, in part, this is why.
My awakening in Cornwall revealed the degree to which Cornwall was dependent on mineral wealth. Like almost everywhere that poor people cannot through poverty raise the capital to exploit these resources I wonder if blow-ins, well, blew in, extracted the wealth and then simply left. It recalls the recent fates of Captains Flat and of the Woodlawn mines in my region.
I don't really know the answer to this question, but I have my suspicions if it hadn't been for the Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick who greatly improved steam pump efficiencies the exploitation of Cornish tin and copper mightn't have happened. Today we get an annoyingly short photo stop at Bottalack, a place where Trevithick's genius enabled deep mining that extended even beneath the sea floor.
Now mostly ruined there's a lot to see here. Spread out along the beautiful Cornish coastline there is the wreckage of not just mines which produced tin, copper and arsenic but their pump houses and roasting ovens. Unremarkable for Great Britain, nestled among the industrial ruins is what looks like the remnants of a WWII gun emplacement.
It's such a shame that, as you will see, today was wasted on nonsense next to substance and the incompetent execution of anything approaching the 6Ps. Instead, you've got fifteen minutes here ā make the most of it.
Where am I from? Colax. Ordinary mining colony. There are dozens of them. Not a perfect place, but it could be worse. Atmosphere is inert, put pressure is normal. So oxygen mask is your best friend there. Itās quite cool place: 10-15C at day, just above zero at night. Rocks, sand and dust everywhere. And iron ore. Goode one. Itās only reason for colony to exist. Ore is quite unique; itās very reach and doesnāt need much refining. The whole subsector gets iron from here. Plus a bit of extra rare metals. Colax isnāt old colony, everything works perfect. Most of industrial processes are automated. So there are not many workers. It will change in future when machines will start to break. More workers to support equipment, more equipment to support life of workers. You understand. But now itās fine. Mines are in good condition, metal factory too. Sometimes some issues happen in spaceport, but it is normal. Usually itās quite there, only a few shuttles arrive per week. But when a large cargo ship appears on orbit, itās total mess. Such ships canāt land due to their size, so small orbital shuttles are used. Lots of them. But number of landing pads is limited. Spaceport works non-stop for several days to process cargo. And if only somebody mixes up containerā¦
The mining began in the 1880s, initially for gold and silver but predominately zinc during later stages of its operation. The mine closed in 1984 and became an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund site. After the closure of the mine and the abandonment of Gilman, a 235-acre (0.95 km2) area, which included 8 million tons of mine waste, were designated a Superfund site by the EPA and placed on the National Priorities List in 1986. The mine had been owned by the New Jersey Zinc Company, in its later years a subsidiary of Gulf+Western. Viacom International was identified by the EPA as the successor in interest to the mine.[3] According to the EPA, the mining operations left large amounts of arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, and zinc in the soil, and led to large fish kills in the Eagle River and threatened drinking water in the town of Minturn downstream on the Eagle River. The clean-up plan, implemented beginning in 1988 included plugging and flooding the Eagle Mine, collecting and treating mine and ground water in a new treatment plant, as well as removing, treating and capping the mine waste products.
A male Andrena mining bee, emerging from a nest hole in our Staffordshire garden this morning.
It's likely to be a Buffish Mining Bee (Andrena nigroaenea). There's a small aggregation of nest holes of this species in this part of the garden.
Where am I from? Colax. Ordinary mining colony. There are dozens of them. Not a perfect place, but it could be worse. Atmosphere is inert, put pressure is normal. So oxygen mask is your best friend there. Itās quite cool place: 10-15C at day, just above zero at night. Rocks, sand and dust everywhere. And iron ore. Goode one. Itās only reason for colony to exist. Ore is quite unique; itās very reach and doesnāt need much refining. The whole subsector gets iron from here. Plus a bit of extra rare metals. Colax isnāt old colony, everything works perfect. Most of industrial processes are automated. So there are not many workers. It will change in future when machines will start to break. More workers to support equipment, more equipment to support life of workers. You understand. But now itās fine. Mines are in good condition, metal factory too. Sometimes some issues happen in spaceport, but it is normal. Usually itās quite there, only a few shuttles arrive per week. But when a large cargo ship appears on orbit, itās total mess. Such ships canāt land due to their size, so small orbital shuttles are used. Lots of them. But number of landing pads is limited. Spaceport works non-stop for several days to process cargo. And if only somebody mixes up containerā¦
This place is on the other side of this narrow road from the Mammoth Mine which was on Mammoth Hill opposite the National Mine - on the same side of the hill. Mammoth Mine work the Lode that measured over 6000 ft making it one of the longest veins of gold ore. Tailings flow down hill and this road looks like it was cut through them so while I'm hunting up that other place I'll check for sure of this area. The Mammoth mine over looked Central City.
Michigan Bar on the American River, Folsom, Ca. Dec. 2017. Gold mining started here in the mid 19th century and continued into the 20th, and the region has mile after mile of water-polished rocks, places where all the soil and smaller rocks were washed away. Brush or scrub forests have covered some of it, but a century or more later plenty is still bare rocks.
Just another day of mining in these cold and damp caves.
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(I'm a dwarf diggy diggy hole)
This entire mountain of coal will be loaded into the waiting hopper cars before the day is done.
All photos taken on the Rosebud Mining Co. site are with permission.
Taken mid morning on this sunny yet cold day as this female was slowly emerging from her nest entrance . For this shot I was able to set my camera up on my tripod at ISO 200 F18 and patiently waited 45 mins for her to emerge allowing me this portrait.
On a tour of old mine's with the stuff around the engine that was used to raise and lower stuff from the hole. This was in a family but had decided to Boulder County, Colorado to take this over - it's on the historical list.
Entrance to the Blue Bird mine.
Over 140 years ago prospectors in the scrappy mining boomtown of Caribou were buzzing with You can still see the bunkhouse dating back to at least 1877 and a stone caretaker's house that was built when mining resumed after the Great Depression. Several other structures, outhouse, mine entrance, chicken coop, can also be seen. That bunkhouse must have looked awful inviting after a 10 hour day in a mine shaft.news of the discovery of a nearby silver vein. Back in 1871 some said the ore was running six thousand dollars a ton. The mine was active for over 90 years finally closing in early 1960ās. In the early 1900s the narrow gauge train brought visitors up the Switzerland Trail to have an outing in this quiet meadow for picnics, wildflower collecting, and sightseeing. The miners' bunkhouse was converted into a boarding house, catering to tourists until the Switzerland Trail stopped running in 1919.
This is a female Buffish Mining-bee (Andrena nigroaenea) emerging from her nest burrow. Did I have to go far to find it? No; there's several nest burrows between the paving at the base of our front door step. Very convenient!
Known for its marble mines, this town has furnished marble for the likes of the Lincoln Memorial, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Municipal buildings in New York and San Fransisco, and more. This was said to have been the largest marble mine in the world. There is still plenty left today. Two other towns, Yule Creek and Clarence started out nearby Marble and eventuall grew into Marble. The company that handeled the mining here was the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and the Colorado-Yule Marble Company which J.C. Osgood, of nearby redstone fame, had control of. The town is still alive today although there isn't much mining going on. At one time the town had 2 newspapers and even a city band that played outside on the bandstand during the 20's. A visit here wouldn't be wasted.
Three Legged Cross, Dorset
Andrena sp. (unidentified)
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(Andrena cineraria) One of the most distinctive solitary bees with striking black and grey/white markings. Female Ashy-mining bees excavate small tunnels in the earth to make their nests.
I like its white beard! I have never seen one of these before, this one was in the garden.
More info can be found at: www.bumblebeeconservation.org/ashy-mining-bee/
Ā© Mike Broome 2021
Mining is a global industry that underpins industrial development in many regions. It is a key sector not only because it is the source of essential raw materials, but also because it potentially leads to economic and social development, often in remote and poorly developed areas, due to its importance in national accounts, level of employment and influence of international markets, etc. Mining activities can also cause severe environmental degradation because of its location (almost all conceivable places, often with insufficient infrastructure), size and timescale. Potential negative impacts of mining operations include: * Energy and water consumption * Air, water and land pollution * Landscape alteration * Soil erosion * Destruction of river banks * Health & safety nuisance.
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Exact Mining Services Kenworth T904 hauls a CAT 777D Dump Truck from Whyalla on-route to Telfer Goldmine in Western Australia.
Engineer Pete and his crew leave Euclid Yard in Ishpeming, MI with 19 empties for Lundin Mining's facility at Humboldt.
It isnāt to say that the idea of building a flume was so crazy. Flumes for placer mining were common at the time. Flume construction methods had been used in California for years and required only minimal skills. To cross arroyos and washes, water could be funneled through flume boxes supported by trestles. But in the canyons of the Dolores and San Miguel Rivers, minimal engineering skill was not enough. This flume would have to be ten miles long, and to complete the entire route at the proper gradient, the Flume would have to cling to seven miles of sheer rock walls, at times suspended hundreds of feet above the river.
Will I can figured one thing out - this had a belt for movement of material and
Georgetown was a hot mining area and silver also.
Tubular boilers were popular in mining districts. Their name came from the long tubes running the horizontal length inside a cylindrical-shaped boiler. Inside the boiler the tubes were surrounded by water. Below the boiler a fire was kept burning. The heat and smoke from the fire was drawn through the long tubesāheating the waterāand continued on, rising up through the smokestack. This process created steam very efficiently and powered mining and milling machines.