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Some of the many pieces of rusting mining machinery around the Blaenavon Big Pit. Far from littering the landscape they point to a fascinating industrial history, and one designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage site since 2000.
In 1861 a fire destroyed most of the town. A newspaper article about the fire stated that there were around 40 stamp mills in the vicinity of Nevada, a staggering number for that early date, which surely made the town the milling center of Colorado at that time.
Water system of town of Nevadaville - barrel holds 13 gallons sold 2 barrels for 25 cents
Details of Nevadaville's history are difficult to find as it was always overshadowed by nearby Central City, which was Colorado's most important city for two decades. The 1861 fire was one of the most notable events here, and the stories on it reveal at least some detail on the town's early history.
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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It all started on Route 66. Actually, it started on I-580, then I-5, CA-58, US 395, I-15, and I-40, to the exit marked Ludlow.
Let's just say that the service at the Ludlow Cafe is interesting.
GHH mining machine underground shovel, when they were introduced in the Monteponi mine, helped to make the work lighter and faster. He wouldn't mind seeing it displayed in a protected area and not exposed to the elements. A machine created to work indoors that ends its "career" outdoors. The most interesting part are the reinforcements made by hand welding along the entire profile of the blade of the shovel. Although not a certainly functional artistic work; this is proof of the mastery and skills that the staff had acquired in working in a mine like this.
Pala da sottosuolo GHH mining machine, quando vennero introdotte nella miniera di Monteponi aiutarono a rendere il lavoro più leggero e veloce. Non sabbe male vederla esposta in una zona protetta e non esposta alle intemperie. Una macchina che nasce per lavorare al chiuso che finisce al sua "carriera" all'aria aperta. La parte più interessante sono i rinforzi realizzati con saldatura a mano lungo tutto il profilo della lama della pala. Seppure non un lavoro artistico sicuramente funzionale; questo a riprova della maestria e delle competenze che il personale aveva acquisito nel lavorare in una miniera come questa.
On Thursday, the recently restored remains of the Blue Bird Mine complex -- including a bunkhouse dating back to at least 1877 and a stone caretaker's house that was built when mining resumed after the Great Depression -- will be officially opened to the public at a 2 p.m. ceremony at Boulder County's Caribou Ranch open space.
A mining droid used in subterranean mines. The 0nua features a very advanced Pakari metal, almost twice as strong as steel, capable of bearing loads so heavy they seem to be physically impossible. They can use a variety of tools, but work best when simply using their claws.
Produced by MATA Industires.
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.
One of my person favorite things about light painting is that sometimes I get the pleasure of being able to relax and enjoy life as I watch the sun rise.
Tonight was one of those nights as I set off on a very impromptu 2:30am adventure. I didn't actually get any light painting done as I was shooting for the stars and even those frames didn't come out as well as I had hoped.
This one was quite the bugger to lineup by myself but after about the 10th try I was able to strike gold!
Old mining equipment scattered across the ground, Bannack ghost town, Bannack State Park, Montana.
The ghost town was established in the 1860s, and rose and fell with nearby mining success. The town was even inhabited as recently as the 1970s before being abandoned, and then preserved as a state park.
Olympus E-M10, Olympus 9-18mm lens.
Goolwa.
The Currency Creek Special Survey was taken out in 1839 by the Currency Creek Association based in England. Locally it was their agent Robert Wright who paid for it on behalf of about 30 men. The Currency Creek Association laid out a major town which they hoped would become the New Orleans of the South. It was after all on a good river, near a great lake and near the mouth of the might Murray River system just like the location of New Orleans at the mouth of the Mississippi in the USA. They named it after the local river- Currency Creek. They also laid out a much smaller port for the town which they called Goolwa. Currency Creek town covered 8 acres, Goolwa 2 acres. History would show they made the wrong decision as Goolwa prospered and Currency Creek withered! One of the early explorers of this region Young Hutchinson (who explored with Thomas Strangways) liked the area so much that he became a major landowner in Goolwa in 1856. Another explorer William Younghusband gave his name to the peninsula near the Murray Mouth. Although the town of Goolwa was laid out in 1840 sales were minimal until the Governor committed the state to developing Goolwa as a river port and Port Elliot as a coastal port for future riverboat trade up the Murray with a horse railway to connect the two. Work began on this £20,000 project in 1851. (An alternate plan to build a canal between the two at an estimated cost of £28,000 was not pursued by the government.) Apart from the Currency Creek Special Survey of 1839 the government also surveyed land along the proposed rail route to Port Elliot in 1849 making land available to buyers. The first land purchases in this region were made in 1849 at Middleton. But Governor Young’s dream of river trade up the Murray and a railway to Port Elliot were not generally popular. A newspaperman wrote in the SA Gazette and Mining Journal in 1851 “There is great difficulty in characterising Sir Henry Young's job "in terms polite". The Goolwa Railway, in the nostrils of the colonists, is odorous of assafoetida, and there are in their mouths, in common use, epithets reflecting upon his Excellency far more offensive than have ever yet appeared in print... Where are the produce, the population, the traffic of the Murray crowding the banks, and suffering for want of an outlet to a market? Why, a single bullock dray once a month will suffice to bring to Adelaide all its exportable produce for the next five years...”
At Goolwa work proceeded and the government invested in the new port town with the construction of the Railway Superintendent’s house in 1852(first occupied in 1854) and the Goolwa wharf in 1852. But the town laid out by the Currency Creek Special Survey in 1840 was still almost non-existent. Its English names like Fenchurch Street and Liverpool Street are now located in North Goolwa. The government surveyed a government town in 1853 next to the Currency Creek Survey town. The first commercial building in the new government town was the Goolwa Hotel (oldest single storey part) built in 1853 and the two storey section was added in 1865. In 1853 the Governor announced a prize of several thousand pounds for the first river boat to prove the Murray was navigable from Goolwa to Wentworth on the Darling River. The Governor and his wife and party journeyed with Captain Cadell. Meantime Captain Randell of Mannum also set off about the same time and the two boats raced to Wentworth. The friend of the Governor - Cadell picked up the prize money and Randell received nothing. But this river boat expedition was so important as it indicated a prosperous future and thus Goolwa began to emerge as a small town with the main street named Cadell after the famous riverboat captain. Next to the government town “Little Scotland” was subdivided into town blocks in 1854. Sales of more town blocks continued in 1855 followed by more in 1856 and some of the first buildings included the bow fronted general store in the Main Street near the old horse tram museum (around 1860), the first Post office 1857(now the Visitor Information Centre), the Police station and Courthouse 1859, the Customs House 1859, the former Australasian Hotel 1857(closed 1934) and the Corio Hotel also 1857 were erected in the fledgling town. Land speculators could see a future for Goolwa and they also began to purchase blocks of land. The first residential stone cottages were erected around 1857 although Highlands House, just a small cottage, was erected in Goolwa in 1853. Goolwa prospered in the 1860s and 1870s when significant development occurred.
One of the finest private buildings of this period from 1860 to 1880 was what is now known as Rose Eden House. This grand two storey Italianate house was built in 1876 with some wrought iron lacework and an upper veranda. It was built for the town school headmaster Mr Phillip Hill who must have run a private school in the town as well as the government school, of which he was headmaster. The government school did not open until 1879. But Mr Hill was a headmaster from 1873 of the town school which became the state school after the passing of the 1785 Education Act. It is claimed that he accommodated school boarders in this large house so that they could attend the Goolwa government school from 1879. Hill left the town of Goolwa in 1884 and the property was sold by him in 1886 when it was known as Hygiene House. It changes hands several times before it was purchased by the SA government in 1913 as a residence for the headmaster of Goolwa Primary School. It served that purpose until sold by the Education Department in 1973. In 2005 it was restored and re-opened as luxury bed and breakfast accommodation with the new name of Rose Eden House. Other fine structures of this 1860 to 1890 era are:
•Thomas Goode’s General Store next to the Goolwa Hotel was built in 1860 and then rebuilt in classical style in 1884. Thomas Goode was the first Post Master of Goolwa in 1857.
•the former Bank of South Australia (1872).
•the Holy Evangelist Anglican church was built in 1867, with the tower added in 1905. But the church was surrounded in controversy as the Governor gave a free land grant in 1855 for the church to be erected.
•the town morgue behind the Courthouse 1883.
•the first part of the Institute opened in 1878. That was the rear part of the current building in a very different style. The Town Hall (now the Alexandrina Council Chamber/Library) was added to the Institute in 1907 facing onto Cadell Street. It was later doubled in size when a matching room was added to the 1907 one.
•the superb Gothic state school built in 1879. The first town school began in Goolwa in 1855.
• the figurehead from the wreck of the Mozambique on the roof line of the Goolwa Hotel. The 403 ton barque Mozambique was built in 1832. It was wrecked off the Coorong in 1854 on a voyage from London to Melbourne. The 22 crew and 24 passengers were all saved but one died from the experience.
•the magnificent ceiling paintings in the Corio Hotel dining room (The Great Yankee Doodle Tobacco mural).
•the original railway station(1872) now an opportunity shop is beside public toilet block near the town rotunda. The railway station was moved to the Goolwa wharf after 1884 when steam trains started operating through to Adelaide. The old yards converted to a park, now the Soldiers’ Memorial Park as the rail yards moved to the Goolwa wharf where it is still located.
•Highlands House in Goyder Street built in 1853. It is probably the oldest residence in Goolwa still in use.
The early churches of Goolwa apart from the Anglican Church include the Congregational Church built in 1859 which is now a dental practice office but it was also used as a Catholic Church from 1896 to 1961. The Wesleyan Methodist Church was built in 1861 with transepts added in 1881 and the Goolwa Church of Christ was built in 1905. The Anglican Church was surrounded in some controversy as without any real authority Governor MacDonnell donated a town block to the Anglican Church in 1855. This was against state policy as it was favouring the Anglican Church as an established church. But the Premier of the day Boyle Finniss put some political spin on it and said the Governor had the right give away one of the government reserves in Goolwa. The local Congregational Minister Reverend Newland of Encounter Bay disputed this and rightly objected but to no avail. The newspapers were flooded with letters of objection.
The fine stone Goolwa flourmill was totally demolished in the 1920s. Edward Dutton had a brewery at Goolwa for some years from 1864 to 1879. Shipbuilding as in river boats and repairs was a major industry in Goolwa but few of these structures remain as they were usually iron and timber and relatively temporary. One of the main companies repairing and building boats was the Goolwa Foundry and Iron Works and Abraham Graham’s Patent Slip and Iron Works established in 1864. Abraham Graham owned Graham’s Castle etc. Ten river barges or steamers were made at Goolwa between 1853 and 1859. Many more followed. Among the many paddle steamers built in Goolwa were the PS Industry (number two) in 1911, the government owned vessel named Prince Alfred (1867), the Canberra - a diesel paddle steamer built late in 1912 and well known paddle steamers such as the Eureka, the Goolwa, the Avoca, the Darling, the Wentworth, the Queen, the Miriam, the Express, the Princess Royal, the Cadell, the Victor, the Kookaburra, the Renmark, etc. Around 60 paddle steamers and barges were constructed in Goolwa with the last completed in 1912. Once the river boat traffic declined Goolwa was left with little industry or employment but this changed in the 1930s when the construction of the Murray River Mouth barrages began. Physical work started in 1935 but preliminary work had started earlier. The five barrages were completed in 1940. They were designed to maintain the river levels between Goolwa and Lock One at Blanchetown and to keep the salt water from the Southern Ocean and the Coorong out of the Murray River channels to Lake Alexandrina. Basically the barrages keep lakes Alexandrina and Albert free of salt so that the water is usable by cattle and stock. The five barrages total 7.6 kms.
Graham’s Castle/Nelcoongal.
Abraham Graham arrived at Port Adelaide in 1853 and then spent a couple of years at the Victorian goldfields looking for a fortune. He returned to South Australia and decided to make money from the gold diggers of Victoria who wanted to buy goods carried by steamer up the Murray River. So he looked at opportunities in Goolwa from where river steamers plied the waters of the Murray River up to Echuca. From there goods were transported overland to the goldfields of Mt Alexander and Bendigo. In 1858 Abraham Graham was appointed as Manager of the River Murray Navigation Company offices in Goolwa. After his arrival in Goolwa he purchased 31 acres of land and in 1863 he built a classical style house called Nelcoongal which the locals referred to as Graham’s Castle. It was on Goolwa Hill and built into the hill and from the flat roof Abraham Graham could watch the shipping along the coast or in the port of Goolwa. The walls of the house were two feet thick and composed of Goolwa limestone. He stayed in Nelcoongal for only a few years before he built Mill Cottage in the centre of Goolwa. Later in 1885 Abraham Graham built a grander house on the Port Elliot Road which he called Burrang and Graham’s Castle was sold. Apart from managing the offices of the Murry River Navigation Company Graham established the Graham’s Iron Works and (boat) Slip in 1864. This company built paddle steamers, barges engines and boilers for the river craft. Graham closed that business in 1886 after he had built Burrang and after the new railway line between Mt Barker Junction and Goolwa had opened thus impacting upon the Murray River traffic and business. In its heyday the Goolwa Works had employed 30 to 40 men. Only the old Chart Room remains of what was once an extensive barge and steamer building foundry and slip. The last of the major machinery and engines were sold to the Chaffey Brothers irrigation scheme at Renmark in 1888. Abraham Graham died at Burrang in 1903 and was buried in the Currency Creek/Goolwa cemetery.
Grahams Castle had numerous owners after the 1890s and gradually fell into disrepair. In 1962 it was purchased by the WEA of Adelaide as a residential centre for adult education courses. But first hundreds of volunteer hours by WEA students and tutors and a small government grant saw Graham’s Castle restored and refurnished. The WEA President of the day Dorothy Pash attended local clearing sales and furnished Graham’s Castle with antiques which at that time were almost worthless and generally unwanted. The refurbished Graham’s Castle was officially opened for the WEA by the Attorney General Don Dunstan in 1967. Although students loved the courses at Graham’s Castle they seldom covered costs and in 1973 the WEA was forced to sell the property which the National Fitness Council purchased. They in turn sold the property a few years later to the government for use by the Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport. Today Graham’s Castle has lost all of its surrounding lands and it is just another Goolwa residential property.
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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I re-discovered this old rock-crusher engine the other day. I keep photographing it because its radiator is made of a, well, radiator! This engine is located near the old Whit-Roy mine.
An old wagon outside the Ravenglass railway museum which long before it was a tourist steam railway was used for transporting iron ore and stone along the Eskdale valley.
The Hanging Flume is perhaps one of the most risky and lofty plans in mining history . . . and for the purposes of placer mining, pretty much a complete failure. But as a heritage tourism site, it still holds our attention, long after the memory of its father, the mysterious Nathaniel P. Turner and hundreds of grunt workers have faded. Recent preservation efforts promise that we will enjoy the Hanging Flume for generations to come.
Deep inside the mountain miners cut huge marble blocks out of the rock for shipment to market.
Carrara, Italy
in underground mine "Hlubina". In operation 1852-1992. It belongs to the unique area together with coking plant and ironworks owned by Vitkovice.
The Mining Tanker is built to go into in low underground tunnels to provide refueling needs for mining equipment.
This model was built for both the Lego Space Discord's Febroverary build challenge, as well as the Old Gray Bricks Discord's Color My Bricks contest.
The Mining Tanker is built to go into in low underground tunnels to provide refueling needs for mining equipment.
This model was built for both the Lego Space Discord's Febroverary build challenge, as well as the Old Gray Bricks Discord's Color My Bricks contest.
The small Qikeng coal mine near Jixi. The winding house for the main drift stands top of the bank to the left of centre. This rail served mine was finally closed in early 2008.
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The light is cast through the broken windows from the outside world of an Eastern Kentucky holler. Through the creaking steel lies the echo of a lost colony, a tattered era of a lust for black gold that has purged the region for over a century. International Harvester was among the many coal companies that stapled their name into the thick seams beneath the earth, crafting the coal town of Benham around their claws in the pursuit of the sustenance to feed their growing empire at the expense of the mining man. Later laws would benefit the miner, yet the damage was done- scarred into the flesh of a generation who defined the true meaning of work. 40 years has this town slumbered. A handful of decades compared to the near-century of activity beneath it. IH owned the town, they owned the mines and they owned the people. But those folks did what they had to do to put food on the table. Those stories are now whispered in the wind among the reapers bondage, the unwanted scraps of Arch Minerals all that remains of one of the greatest names in the coal industry. 40 years since the IH buyout in '86 and the old bathhouse has sat silent, only disturbed by the curious mind such as myself. Men who emerged from the depths of the earth would trod through it's halls, stripping of their dust-covered clothes and hanging them on rusty metal baskets, then hoisted into the air by the very chains now draped over the windows. Hoisted long enough to sustain a nights rest before lowered at the light of another day. The sun rises over the mountains at 10 in the morning and dissipates at 3 in the afternoon as these men disappeared into the gaping mouths of the coal mines. Repetition that engulfed this piece of the world for decades until the pockets were padded and the hunger ceased. Then at the drop of a hat, the billionaires were gone and the broken dead men were lost, forced to vacate the towns that raised them to take up new occupation away from their home. The population dwindled, water seeped from the mine portals and the ruins remained. While Lexington and Louisville flourished from their newfound funds, Benham deteriorated and fell to the wayside. The sowers had sown and the millionaire reaped. And through the broken windows of the outside world, the reapers bondage is all that remains of a generation.
Had to get creative to maKe out the letters on the end but it says - MFD BY UNIVERSAL CRUSHER.CO
Yule Marble is a marble of metamorphosed limestone found only in the Yule Creek Valley, in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado, 2.8 miles (4.5 km) southeast of the town of Marble, Colorado.[1] First discovered in 1873, it is quarried today inside a mountain at 9,300 feet (2,800 m) above sea level, in contrast to most marble, which is quarried from an open pit and at much lower elevations.
Victor is a statutory city in Teller County, Colorado, United States. Gold was discovered in Victor in the late 19th century, an omen of the future of the town. With Cripple Creek, the mining district became the second largest gold mining district in the country and realized approximately $10 billion of mined gold in 2010 dollars. It reached its peak around the turn of the century when there were about 18,000 residents in the town. Depleted ore in mines, labor strife and the exodus of miners during World War I caused a steep decline in the city's economy, from which it has never recovered. The population was 397 at the 2010 census. There is a resumed mining effort on Battle Mountain.
Victor was founded in 1891, shortly after Winfield Scott Stratton discovered gold nearby. The town was named after the Victor Mine,[7] which may have been named for an early settler, Victor Adams. In 1892 Harry, Frank and Warren Woods founded the Mt. Rosa Mining, Milling and Land Company.[8][nb 1] Battle Mountain, located just above Victor, had the largest, most prolific mines in the mining district and the town became known as the "City of Mines." Victor officially became a city on July 16, 1894.[8] In 1894 the Woods brothers discovered gold when they began digging the foundation for a building, which resulted in the creation of the Gold Coin Mine. At that time 8,000 people lived in Victor.[8