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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
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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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Coal mine 'Krupinski', Upper Silesia, Poland.
Picture No: 2021-04-30-9999_63_P5_FRAMED_S
Edited in Canon DPP 4: brightness: +0.33, contrast: +2, strengh: +6. Cropped. No photomontage.
Framed in Photoshop 6.
Walburgiskapelle Weschnitz - Erntedank oder privates Thanksgiving?
Die Walburgiskapelle befindet sich im Wald auf dem Kahlberg, einer historischen Stelle, an der Kaiser Karl der Große im Jahr 795 die Grenzen seines Reiches und die der Mark Heppenheim festlegte.
Schon im 16 Jh. ist an diesem Platz eine Kapelle nachgewiesen - wann sie erstmals gebaut wurde, weiß man nicht.
Die Kapelle ist der heiligen Walburga geweiht, die eine Nichte des Missionars Bonifatius gewesen sein soll. Manche glauben, der Platz könnte zuvor ein keltisches und germanisches Bergheiligtum gewesen sein. In der Tat widmeten christliche Missionare oft heidnische Kultplätze um, statt sie zu zerstören.
Für die Kelten-These spricht, dass man Reste von Erzbergbau gefunden hat, den schon die Kelten betrieben.
Auch heute noch finden Wallfahrten zu dieser Kapelle statt - ein magischer Platz mit einer fantastischen Aussicht.
The Walburgis Chapel is located in the forest on the Kahlberg, a historical spot where Emperor Charlemagne defined the borders of his empire and the Mark Heppenheim in 795.
There is evidence of a chapel on this site as early as the 16th century - no one knows when it was first built.
The chapel is dedicated to St. Walburga, who is said to have been a niece of the missionary Boniface. Some believe the site may have previously been a Celtic and Germanic mountain sanctuary. Indeed, Christian missionaries often rededicated pagan places of worship rather than destroying them.
The Celtic thesis is supported by the fact that remains of ore mining, which the Celts already operated, have been found.
Pilgrimages to this chapel still take place today - a magical place with a fantastic view.
Into the nest of a mining bee. I watched several hovering in front of burrows, swinging their abdomens forward to shoot their eggs inside. Please see this link to Steve Balcomes stream for a most interesting observation. www.flickr.com/photos/stevebalcombe/26484725033/in/datepo...
The Pioche Consolidated Mill, AKA the Godbe Mill. Built in 1891 to process ore from Pioche and other nearby mining camps. It was connected to the mines by the Pioche Pacific Railway, and later by an aerial tramway to Treasure Hill.
The mill burned down and was rebuilt twice; once in 1893 and again in 1929. It operated until sometime around 1980.
It now belongs to the County, who graciously allowed a few of us from the #LincolnCountyPhotoFest to photograph it at night.
Base 11/19 – Loos en Gohelle, Lens.
La Cité des Provinces et la Fosse d'extraction 11/19.
2021 ©MichelleCourteau
This city count about 600 dwellings all destroyed before the WW1, then rebuilt and enlarged in 1920.
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...
The Hearst Memorial Mining Building at the University of California, Berkeley, is home to the university's Materials Science and Engineering Department. The Beaux-Arts-style Classical Revival building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is designated as part of California Historical Landmark #946. It was designed by John Galen Howard, with the assistance of the UC Berkeley-educated architect Julia Morgan and the Dean of the College of Mines at that time, Samuel B. Christy. It was the first building on that campus designed by Howard. Construction began in 1902 as part of the Phoebe Hearst campus development plan. The building was dedicated to the memory of her husband George Hearst, who had been a successful miner.
Andrena s.g. Micrandrena on Speedwell | Veronica sp.
Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2
32mm Macro Tube | f/4.8 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2019.
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 casual mining droid discovers a rich mineral vein hundreds of miles beneath the Earths crust.
Hope you like this moc, have a great day.
A truck stands guard over the remains of a mining camp near a ghost town in Nevada.
Happy Truck Thursday!
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
I saw these funny shaped glass bricks on the side of a building, and instantly thought "Minecraft Pants"!
Minecraft is a 3D-block game that involves mining and crafting. It swept the world about a decade ago and is still going strong. As the mother of an avid player, years ago I was forced to play this game!
Rosedale was once a thriving area with the mining of iron ore. A railway ran around the whole dale. Now all that remains are the ruins of the old smelting kilns and a walking track which was once the railway. There is a wonderful farmhouse cafe deep in the dale which is very popular with walkers.
The death nell of the mines was in part to the General strike of 1926 when iron ore prices were very low and so Rosedale became unprofitable.
An interesting read of Rosedale can be found on Wikipedia. Follow link below.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironstone_mining_in_Rosedale#:~:tex....