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No son muchos los datos que se poseen de esta antigua fundición, ubicada en el paraje de Piedrallana, al norte de Villaricos, muy cercana a otra fábrica: la Invencible. Se cree que fue construida sobre 1870, cesando su actividad nada más comenzar el siglo XX, al disminuir notablemente la producción de las minas de Sierra Almagrera.
Hacia 1883, Santa Ana fue adquirida por José Soler Gómez, conocido exportador de minerales de plomo de la zona, lo que para algún autor significa que la fundición mantuvo un ritmo de producción continuo, sin grandes altibajos, habiéndose estimado en unas 30 toneladas diarias el mineral que era llevado para su tratamiento a la fábrica, llegándose a consumir anualmente 3600 toneladas de coque y hulla llegados en buques desde Inglaterra....
Laguna Colorade - Bolivia.
The different colours white, yellow and green are caused by different minerals in the water. The red is from algae.
Orange-Barred Sulphur and other butterflies eating minerals on river bank in Manú National Park.
Mud-puddling, or simply puddling, is a behaviour most conspicuous in butterflies, but occurs in other animals as well, mainly insects; they seek out nutrients in certain moist substances such as rotting plant matter, mud and carrion and they suck up the fluid. Where the conditions are suitable, conspicuous insects such as butterflies commonly form aggregations on wet soil, dung or carrion. From the fluids they obtain salts and amino acids that play various roles in their physiology, ethology and ecology.
Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, Manú National Park
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The wonders of Mammoth Hot Springs always amaze me. I wondered what the water source was, never knew it traveled that far:
"Terrace Mountain at Mammoth Hot Springs is the largest known carbonate-depositing spring in the world. It was created over thousands of years as hot water from the spring cooled and deposited calcium carbonate (over two tons flow into Mammoth each day in a solution). Because of the huge amount of geothermal vents, travertine flourishes.
The hot water that feeds Mammoth comes from Norris Geyser Basin after traveling underground via a fault line that runs through limestone and roughly parallel to the Norris-to-Mammoth road."
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Mineral Water Park
Trilha da Capivara
Área de Proteção Ambiental
Parque Nacional de Brasília
Água Mineral
Brasília Brasil
240 shots from my home stacked and processed with pipp + Autostakert! + Registax + Photoshop.
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240 fotos tomadas desde mi casa, apiladas y procesadas con PIPP + Autostakkert! + Registax + Photoshop.
Photographed at Mineral Ridge
Date: 23rd November 2016
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Photographed at Mineral Ridge
Date: 24th November 2016
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This is a shot of a Sleepy Orange sulphur butterfly mineralling. If you look closely you can see the proboscis leading into the ground. Although no one really knows for sure it seems that the butterfly is drawing up minerals from damp ground that has a lot of salt in it. This shot was taken in an area that has a lot of runners and horses, all of which produce a lot of salt through perspiration and such. This behavior is also known as "puddling". Only certain species are known to do this, and it's just the young males of the species. I've included a shot of some different sulphurs puddling.
Bonneville Salt Flats near Salt lake city in Utah. It had rained and there was water instead of salt. But still it looked more mineral than anything I have seen