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Another slide restoration of a former welsh slate mining area, which I believe was open to the public at the time (mid-1980s) & in better Covid free times, may still be.
into the blue.
dug up from my garden. they have been covered for years.
'Roid week, autumn 2022, day 4 # 2
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into the blue.
dug up from my garden. they have been covered for years.
'Roid week, autumn 2022, day 4 # 1
camera and film unknown
The Saarpolygon is a memorial to the coal mining in the Saar region, which finally ended in June 2012. The large accessible sculpture stands on the Duhamel slagheap in Ensdorf, which rises about 150 metres above the surrounding Saartal valley.
The walkable monument is about 30 metres high. The 35-metre-long transverse section is accessed from both sides by 132 steps at a height of 25 metres. The viewing platform weighs around 60 tons. The Saarpolygon is designed in such a way that it has a different shape from each direction: rectangular archway, triangle standing on the top or base, cross with horizontal line. In the ground plan it has the shape of a Z.
147 designs were submitted in the competition of ideas for the artistic implementation - the winner was the Berlin architect duo Katja Pfeiffer and Oliver Sachse.
Their design of a large walk-in sculpture, which "as a symbol of change in an abstract language of form traces a variety of mining motifs", is intended to form a gateway into the future in the eyes of the beholder. The formal language of the puristic steel grid construction is intended to express the inseparability of origin and future in the country and to show the classic connection of coal, steel and energy in Saarland.
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Das Saarpolygon ist ein Denkmal zur Erinnerung an den im Juni 2012 endgültig beendeten Steinkohlebergbau im Saarrevier. Die begehbare Großplastik steht auf der Bergehalde Duhamel in Ensdorf, die sich rund 150 Meter über das umliegende Saartal erhebt. Das begehbare Denkmal ist rund 30 Meter hoch. Zu dem rund 35 Meter überspannenden Querstück führen von beiden Seiten genau 132 Stufen in 25 Meter Höhe. Die Aussichts-plattform wiegt rund 60 Tonnen. Das Saarpolygon ist so gestaltet, dass es aus jeder Richtung eine andere Form hat: rechteckiger Torbogen, auf der Spitze oder der Basis stehendes Dreieck, Kreuz mit Querstrich. Im Grundriss hat es die Form eines Z.
Im Ideenwettstreit zur künstlerischen Umsetzung wurden 147 Entwürfe eingereicht- Sieger war das Berliner Architektenduo Katja Pfeiffer und Oliver Sachse. Ihr Entwurf einer begehbaren Großskulptur, die „als Symbol des Wandels in abstrakter Formensprache vielgestaltige Bergbaumotive nachzeichnet“, soll in den Augen des Betrachters ein Tor in die Zukunft bilden. Die Formensprache der puristischen Stahlgitterkonstruktion soll die Untrennbarkeit von Herkunft und Zukunft im Lande zum Ausdruck bringen und die klassische Verbundenheit von Kohle, Stahl und Energie im Saarland zeigen.
The mining town of Lake Valley was founded in 1878 after silver was discovered. Almost overnight, the small frontier town blossomed into a major settlement with a population of 4,000 people. Today, silver mining has played out and all that remains is a ghost town.
more into the blue.
dug up from my garden. they have been covered for years.
'Roid week, autumn 2022, day 5 # 1
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Das Deutsche Bergbau-Museum gegründet 1930 in Bochum ist das größte Bergbaumuseum der Welt und zum anderen Forschungsinstitut für Georessourcen und Montanwesen und Bergbauarchiv. Das Museum verfügt über ein Anschauungsbergwerk mit Seilfahrtsimulator. Das weithin sichtbare Symbol des Museums, der 71 m hohe Förderturm kann bestiegen werden.
The German Mining Museum, founded in Bochum in 1930, is the largest mining museum in the world and, on the other hand, is a research institute for georesources and mining and mining archives. The museum has a demonstration mine with a rope simulator. The symbol of the museum, which can be seen from afar, the 71 m high winding tower can be climbed.
Das Deutsche Bergbau-Museum gegründet 1930 in Bochum ist das größte Bergbaumuseum der Welt und zum anderen Forschungsinstitut für Georessourcen und Montanwesen und Bergbauarchiv. Das Museum verfügt über ein Anschauungsbergwerk mit Seilfahrtsimulator. Das weithin sichtbare Symbol des Museums, der 71 m hohe Förderturm kann bestiegen werden.
The German Mining Museum, founded in Bochum in 1930, is the largest mining museum in the world and, on the other hand, is a research institute for georesources and mining and mining archives. The museum has a demonstration mine with a rope simulator. The symbol of the museum, which can be seen from afar, the 71 m high winding tower can be climbed.
St Aidens Dragline “Oddball” and Ferrybridge Power Station in the background amongst the mist and beauty of this morning.
A great start to my favourite time of year for photography.
David P. Morgan once described the Reserve Mining Railroad as a perfect railroad; one unencumbered by the ICC, passenger trains or branch lines. They focused solely on one commodity. and with a great physical plant they ran the hell out of it. There were years when the RMCo Railroad moved more tonnage than the entire Soo Line! Some remnants litter this shot, with Reserve era signals and ore cars mixed with newer locomotives. Out of sight but up and to the right exists a tailings pond, the result of "The United States of America v. Reserve Mining Company", a landmark case which marked the beginning of the EPA wielding significantly more power over corporations polluting the environment. I think spot is gated off now, the camera in the distance was new when I shot this and no doubt a contributing factor. Even out of its Reserve days, the North Shore Mining Company was still as cool as it always was.
Liège-Guillemins railway station / Liège / Wallonia / Belgium
Album of Belgium: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157712012...
Album of High-key photos: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157718851...
Butterflies cannot live on Nectar alone. Minerals are also required by butterflies and to get them they do what is called Puddling. Puddling is when butterflies gather on muddy areas of soil to suck up water that contains devolved minerals. They radically fly over the wet soil; it seems radical to me, but they might have a method, then land in their chosen spot and suck up the mineral rich water.
Clipstone Colliery was a coal mine situated near the village of the same name on the edge of an area of Nottinghamshire known as “The Dukeries” because of the number of stately homes in the area. The colliery was owned by the Bolsover Colliery Company and passed to the National Coal Board in 1947. The headstocks and powerhouse are grade II listed buildings.
A truck stands guard over the remains of a mining camp near a ghost town in Nevada.
Happy Truck Thursday!
Goldfield, Colorado
View of the Little Theresa Mine from the interpretive loop trail. which was operated from 1895 to as late as 1961 by several companies, including the Theresa Gold Mining Company, the Vindicator Consolidated, the United Gold Mines Company, and the Golden Cycle Mining Company. The entire surface plant was destroyed by fire in 1934, and the metal frame shown here rebuilt in 1938.
Copper mining infrastructure, part of Phelps Dodge Corporation copper mining operation in Bisbee, AZ. Mining operations stopped in 1974. I believe these towers were used for some type of post-processing of the recovered slurry.
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Limburg, Heerlen, Dutch Mining Museum, Cap lamps (cut from B&T)
Rechargeable cap lamps at the Dutch Mining museum in Heerlen. They were mounted on the hard hats (caps) of the miners to enable them to see what they are doing in the suboptimal lit mines, The batteries ae probably of the NiCad type (but I can't rule out that they're traditional lead-acid ones).
The museum uses the shaft building of the decommissioned Oranje-Nassau 1 mine (once commonly known as ON1). I started up in 1899 and decommissioned in 1974. It's history is here.
The profitable mining in Zuid Limburg enabled Holland to build up the welfare state. But the region paid the price. Deep mining proved to be dangerous and sometimes even deadly. Many miners suffered from silicosis and other miner's diseases. And there were geological consequences such as the rising and falling of the ground of certain parts of the region and local earthquakes. And the highly polluted (asbestos, drilling emulsion) water from the decommissioned mines is rising, which will eventually reach the groundwater table. Check out this (sorry only Dutch).
From the early sixties onwards, the Dutch coal industry withered away and eventually was terminated due to the import of cheap American coal and the start of the exploitation of the Dutch natural gas fields in Groningen.
Another factor in this process was the big conversion from coal to oil as an energy source. A spectacular example is the conversion in the shipping industry from WW1 onwards. There were large cost savings in this conversion -among others on labour costs. And it sped up the world economy.
The mine closure caused severe social and economic problems in the region.
About the production of gas in Holland: every city / large municipality had its coal-gas factory (coal to gas conversion). Due to the Dutch natural gas availability, these factories with their typical large gasometers could be phased out – from 1963 to 1972, the Dutch Gasunie installed a nationwide underground natural gas transport network. This led to yet another conversion process. This time in the Dutch households. The burners in the water heaters, stoves and furnaces had to be changed ‘cause of the higher energy content (caloric value) of natural gas ánd the high pressure of the Gasunie network.
This is number 1207 of Minimalism / explicit Graphism