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Goldstream Dredge No. 8 is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located about 10 miles outside of Fairbanks Alaska. Print Size 13x19 inches.
Already for the third time, I was present at this year's model exchange and exhibition held on 27 April 2024 at Ebianum museum in Fisibach, Switzerland. Collectors of construction and mining equipment, cranes and trucks show their latest creations and sell models.
I was present with a selection of six of my models of real life mining equipment, built to a scale of 1/28.5:
- Caterpillar 6090 FS Front Shovel
- Terex Unit Rig MT 6300AC Mining Truck
- Komatsu WE2350 Wheel Loader
- O&K RH 120 C Mining Backhoe
- Komatsu WD 900-3 Wheel Dozer
- Champion 100-T Mining Grader
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From the display: "This motorized mine cart was discovered in an abandoned gold mine in Northern California in 1990. It was used for pulling wagons of ore out of the mine on a narrow-guage track. it is powered by a 1926 Harley-Davidson 21ci single-cylinder engine. The product of a very talented individual, the cart features all-wheel drive and an electric start. A second transmission from a Ford Model A automobile was added, giving the cart nine forward speeds and three reverse speeds."
On loan from the Wheels Through Time Museum
Ref 15 CX 2.B.18.1.4
This type of machinery makes for great HDRs. I took this with a handheld camera using museum lighting.
This cove had some abandoned copper mining equipment from the very early 1900's It was actually painted for children who used it as playground equipment. It added a nice splash of color to the beautiful but cloudy scenery. Near Crow Head on Twillingate Island, Newfoundland. Shot with Fotodiox Wondapana Circular polarizor.
The Bingham Canyon Mine, also known as the Kennecott Copper Mine, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, in the Oquirrh Mountains. It is the deepest open-pit mine in the world. The mine is owned by Rio Tinto Group, an international mining and exploration company headquartered in the United Kingdom. The copper operations at Bingham Canyon Mine are managed through Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation which operates the mine, a concentrator plant, a smelter, and a refinery. The mine has been in production since 1906, and has resulted in the creation of a pit over 0.75 miles (1.2 km) deep, 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, and covering 1,900 acres (7.7 km²). According to Kennecott, it is the world's largest man-made excavation.[3] It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966 under the name Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine
This old house is in Goldfield Colorado, I took this shot using a Pentax K20d and an old Kodak Duo Flex. A method I learned from Bob Merco
Display at Manteno,Ill
A Strong Foundation
Vulcan Materials Company is the nation’s largest producer of construction aggregates—primarily crushed stone, sand and gravel—and a major producer of aggregates-based construction materials, including asphalt and ready-mixed concrete. Our coast-to-coast footprint and strategic distribution network align with and serve the nation’s growth centers.
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The Cornish Miners that worked here at the Day Dream Mine at Silverton in Western NSW did it tough in the mines however things may not have been as bad above ground as they retired for the night to these 'luxuriously appointed' sleeping quarters. The roof was either made of a sheet of corrugated iron, timber slats or possibly native brush.
It rains rarely out here but the night time and early morning temperatures frequently fall well below zero so its assumed for many that consumption of whisky may have aided toleration of the extremes of living in a humble abode such as this.
The guide told us there was a bushy shrub in this area that the leaves of which when crushed gave off a pleasant odour. It was apparently used by pepole as a deodorant as out here there was most often no water available for washing or bathing.
This National Historic Site consists of three facilities: a main office and two significant Cold War-era sites, a launch control center and a missile silo/launch facility, formerly operated by the 66th Strategic Missile Squadron of the 44th Strategic Missile Wing, headquartered at Ellsworth Air Force Base in Rapid City, South Dakota. The facilities represent the only remaining intact components of a nuclear missile field that once consisted of 150 Minuteman II missiles, 15 launch control centers, and covered over 13,500 square miles (35,000 km2) of southwestern South Dakota.[4]
The silo, known as launch facility Delta Nine (D-09) was constructed in 1963. It occupies 1.6 acres (6,000 m2) one-half mile (800 m) southwest of Interstate 90 at Exit 116 and six miles (10 km) from the town of Wall, South Dakota, in eastern Pennington County. It consists of an underground launch tube ("missile silo") 12 feet (3.7 m) in diameter and 80 feet (24 m) deep made of reinforced concrete with a steel-plate liner. An unarmed missile is on display inside. The launch tube's 110-ton cover has been rolled partly away and welded to the rails it rides on. The launch tube was then covered with a glass viewing enclosure. Not only does this permit visitors to see the missile, it means Russian satellites are able to verify that the site is not operational, and hence in compliance with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Because the only way to get to the underground part of the site is by a ladder 20 feet (6.1 m) long, tours are not conducted underground for safety reasons. Visitors can conduct self-guided tours of the site during the day by calling a number on their cell phones and walking around the site, listening to the description of various points over the phone.
The launch control facility, known as Delta One (D-01), is about 10.5 miles (16.9 km) away, to the east-southeast in northwestern Jackson County. It occupies approximately six acres (24,000 m2) 1.7 miles (3 km) north of I-90 at Exit 127. It consists of an above-ground building containing a kitchen, sleeping quarters, offices and life support equipment. Below this building is the actual launch control center, buried 31 feet (9.4 m) deep, connected to the building by an elevator. Guided tours are conducted underground here, but are limited to six people at a time due to the very small underground launch control center ("capsule") and are a half-hour long. Self-guided tours are not possible here; the gate for the fence around D-01 is always locked, just like it was when it was an active launch control facility.
Walking toward the old mill as the light fades. The sounds of metal creeking and crying filling the early night air. I ask myself, is this where I want to be?.
"Description: The Gold Coin Club was rebuilt after the great fire of 1899 at a cost of $50,000 by the Woods family, founders of the City of Victor and developers of the Gold Coin Mine (located across the street). It is a rare example of a social club built exclusively for the miners by the mine owners. Patterned after the New York Athletic Club, the Gold Coin Club contained a ballroom, gymnasium, bowling alleys, pool and game room, a 700-volume library, dining rooms and space for a 25-piece band which played at most Victor community events. The second tier of the porch was originally open and reportedly once served as a balcony from which President Theodore Roosevelt spoke to a crowd.
The glory years lasted only briefly. Labor strikes in 1903-1904 devastated the financial empire of the Woods family and forced closure of the Gold Coin Club. In 1904 the building was sold to Dr, C.E. Eliot who operated it as the Red Cross Hospital for a decade. In the mid-1900's Dr. A.C. Denman used the building as a residence and office. Later, this vast structure housed a restaurant and a theater." from Westernmininghistory.com
This is the mine up Buckskin Gulch. Also, this is a mine I had posted a telephoto shot of in March. A hard hike on a very steep mountian. I wonder how they did it?
Trucks continue to haul and dump making the access to more ore possible. Upper left is another shovel and a few trucks working to strip overburden while in the upper center is another shovel stripping and loading overburden into trucks while moving across where Highway 5 used to be.
This wheel was used in the late 1800 to run a stamp mill. The stamps broke down rock to get to the gold ore.
There seems to be some kind of narrow=gauge electric railway system in the mine, (seen also in photos in this website)judging by the size of the Wohnwagen in the centre. Germany is the world's largest miner of Brown Coal followed by China and the USA, much of it in the former DDR.
The two huge Schaufelradbagger or Bucketwheel excavators in the photo were probably made by TAKRAF in Eberswalde, the DDR's specialist crane maker, with models prefixed SRs
This photograph is from the collection of Barry Howard, who was an Electrician at local coal mines such as Hebburn No. 2 and Northern (Rhondda) Colliery, and at Saxonvale Colliery, further up the Hunter Valley. Mr Howard has very kindly permitted us to to publish these photographs on this website for the benefit of researchers and for those who served in the mines and their families.
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Still trying to get an old tin type look to my mill photos. Understanding that many photographers will not like this approach.
I am pointing a drill hole with 15 sticks of dynamite, a fuse, and a blasting cap all from work done in the 1960's.
Atlas Copco Construction and Mining located on Riverside Drive in Mountjoy in the Township of Mountjoy in the City of Timmins in Northeastern Ontario Canada
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We went to the Ludlow massacre site. I found this to be one of the most unsettling places I have ever been. We visited the site then drove up the canyon where the CF&I Rockefeller mines were. I had a sense of depression that I have rarely had on a photo trip (mabe at the Sand Creek Site) I was glad to leave here, it is not a good place.
Trucks continue to haul and dump making the access to more ore possible. Upper left is another shovel and a few trucks working to strip overburden while in the upper center is another shovel stripping and loading overburden into trucks while moving across where Highway 5 used to be.
Perforadora esperando el cambio de turno en una mina subterránea. La mina está ubicada en la Provincia de Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina.
Olympus Stylus 790SW
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Title: [Texas Gulf Sulphur Company]
Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall (1908-1984)
Date: ca. 1939
Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection
Place: Newgulf, Wharton County, Texas
Description: This image shows Texas Gulf Sulphur Company railway steam cranes loading sulfur into railroad cars.
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 25.4 x 20.5 cm
File Name: ag1982_0234_1630_054_texgulfsulphurco_sm_opt.jpg
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Rocky Mountain National Park is a national park located in the north-central region of the U.S. state of Colorado. It features majestic mountain views, a variety of wildlife, varied climates and environments—from wooded forests to mountain tundra—and easy access to back-country trails and campsites. The park is located northwest of Boulder, Colorado, in the Rockies, and includes the Continental Divide and the headwaters of the Colorado River.
The park has five visitor centers. The park headquarters, Beaver Meadows Visitor Center, is a National Historic Landmark, designed by the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture at Taliesin West.[3]
The park may be accessed by three roads: U.S. Highway 34, 36, and State Highway 7. Highway 7 enters the park for less than a mile, where it provides access to the Lily Lake Visitor Center which is closed indefinitely. Farther south, spurs from route 7 lead to campgrounds and trail heads around Longs Peak and Wild Basin. Highway 36 enters the park on the east side, where it terminates after a few miles at Highway 34. Highway 34, known as Trail Ridge Road through the park, runs from the town of Estes Park on the east to Grand Lake on the southwest. The road reaches an elevation of 12,183 feet (3,713 m), and is closed by snow in winter.
The California Zephyr serves Granby (near the west entrance of the park) by rail from Denver, crossing the Continental Divide through the Moffat Tunnel well south of the park. The park's website suggests Granby as an appropriate rail terminus for visitors,[4] although it lies a good sixteen miles from the park without public transportation connections.
The park is surrounded by Roosevelt National Forest on the north and east, Routt National Forest on the northwest, and Arapaho National Forest on the southwest.
An abandoned boiler sits at an abandoned mine west of Helena,Montana. It looks like the guts inside have been removed and savaged, leaving only the shell.
These safety lamps were used around 1815 to 1930s. They were much safer than oil lamps and carbide lamps as the open flame was enclosed to minimize chances of igniting gasses. While good for testing for gasses, safety lamps gave off a less bright light and could not be worn on a helmet, which made the miners less efficient. Their best use was for burning off methane gas in mines. These models have mesh inside enclosing and cooling the flame, glass enclosure around the flame for letting the light through and a metal bonnet which protects the flame from drafts.
This photograph is from the collection of Barry Howard, who was an Electrician at local coal mines such as Hebburn No. 2 and Northern (Rhondda) Colliery, and at Saxonvale Colliery, further up the Hunter Valley. Mr Howard has very kindly permitted us to to publish these photographs on this website for the benefit of researchers and for those who served in the mines and their families.
If you have any information about the photograph, please contact us or leave a comment. We greatly value your contribution.
Please contact us if you are the subject of the image, or know the subject of the image, and have cultural or other reservations about the image being displayed on this website and would like to discuss this with us.