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This is a female Buffish Mining-bee (Andrena nigroaenea) emerging from her nest burrow. Did I have to go far to find it? No; there's several nest burrows between the paving at the base of our front door step. Very convenient!
Mining bee (Andrena) foraging on Prairie Crocus flower (Ammone patens)now called Prairie Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla nuttalliana).. Same individual as photo 6261. Hidden Valley, Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada. 30 April 2023
The Goldfields Mining Centre is a very well known tourist attraction. Here you can see a replica of an old Chinese mining village and pan for gold.
Known for its marble mines, this town has furnished marble for the likes of the Lincoln Memorial, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Municipal buildings in New York and San Fransisco, and more. This was said to have been the largest marble mine in the world. There is still plenty left today. Two other towns, Yule Creek and Clarence started out nearby Marble and eventuall grew into Marble. The company that handeled the mining here was the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and the Colorado-Yule Marble Company which J.C. Osgood, of nearby redstone fame, had control of. The town is still alive today although there isn't much mining going on. At one time the town had 2 newspapers and even a city band that played outside on the bandstand during the 20's. A visit here wouldn't be wasted.
This is a female mining bee at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands; one of many native bees that pollinate the flowering native plants. Their reward for this job is all the nectar they can eat. It's size can be gauged by comparing it to the ants seen here.
Where am I from? Colax. Ordinary mining colony. There are dozens of them. Not a perfect place, but it could be worse. Atmosphere is inert, put pressure is normal. So oxygen mask is your best friend there. It’s quite cool place: 10-15C at day, just above zero at night. Rocks, sand and dust everywhere. And iron ore. Goode one. It’s only reason for colony to exist. Ore is quite unique; it’s very reach and doesn’t need much refining. The whole subsector gets iron from here. Plus a bit of extra rare metals. Colax isn’t old colony, everything works perfect. Most of industrial processes are automated. So there are not many workers. It will change in future when machines will start to break. More workers to support equipment, more equipment to support life of workers. You understand. But now it’s fine. Mines are in good condition, metal factory too. Sometimes some issues happen in spaceport, but it is normal. Usually it’s quite there, only a few shuttles arrive per week. But when a large cargo ship appears on orbit, it’s total mess. Such ships can’t land due to their size, so small orbital shuttles are used. Lots of them. But number of landing pads is limited. Spaceport works non-stop for several days to process cargo. And if only somebody mixes up container…
several shots of the railway sadly it was not open on the day I went but I will be going back to have a ride on that one.
Mining Haulage for the 21st Century.
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Could be one of Hiram J. Hackenbacker's creations!
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Taken years ago in an abandonded mining area. This is the passage in which carts (correction here?) were travelling over.
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in underground mine "Hlubina". In operation 1852-1992. It belongs to the unique area together with coking plant and ironworks owned by Vitkovice.
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.
This in the Red Mountain Site. You can see it from MDH, but you can also drive through it if you have a high clearance 4wd drive vehicle.
This is typical mining operations through out the San Juan Mountains.
Part of the Little Dudes series, documenting the little dudes who live in my home.
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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.
Palmer – Company Town in the Rain Shadow Country.
Palmer was part of the 1845 Reedy Creek Special Mining Survey. In 1869 the Australian Mining Company decided to lease as much land as they could to farmers and to create a new township near the old Reedy Creek mines but on the main road to Mannum. The main company director, Sir Samuel Davenport named the town after a close friend of William Light, Lieutenant Colonel George Palmer, one of the Commissioners of the SA Company and another director of the Australian Mining Company. Sir Samuel Davenport, a pioneer of olive growing in SA, established the existing olive plantation at Palmer in the 1880s. The land in the township of Palmer and surrounding farming districts was tenanted until 1905 when the Australian Mining Company sold the land to the tenants, or other buyers. George Melrose of Rosebank near Mt Pleasant wanted to buy the 20,000 acres and evict the tenants. Sir Samuel Davenport opposed this and conducted a public auction of 7,500 acres in the Palmer Institute in 1905 after tenants had already bought land privately( about 12,000 acres) from the Australian Mining Company. The Institute Trustees, who erected the Institute in 1896, purchased the land on which it stood but some land was offered as a gift to the town of Palmer including the olive plantation which is still a public reserve. The first leaseholders in Palmer were almost all German families the Bottroffs, Drabsches, Drogemullers, Lindners, Rathjens, Riedels, Seidels, Steickes and Thieles. The only English background settlers were the Royal and McDonald families. Soon Fendler, Zadow, Wagenknecht, Wachtel and others settled in Palmer with this influx of new families in 1905. These are the names today in the well sited Palmer cemetery which has been controlled by the local council since 1882 when the Company donated the land for it.
The town developed quickly. The first Lutheran church services were held in a farmer’s house in 1869 but soon there were two Lutheran churches. In 1872 Christ Church Lutheran was built where it still stands and in 1873 St Pauls was erected. It was demolished around 1967 and the bell tower of St Pauls and some stone from the old church are in a memorial behind the current Palmer Lutheran Church, formerly Christ Church Lutheran. A Lutheran school opened at Christ Church in 1870 but closed in 1917, whilst in 1881 a state public school opened in the town. Some of the first people to take up leases were store keepers, a blacksmith, a general stock and station agent and an inn keeper. The old Miners Arm Hotel was first licensed in 1869 but closed in 1888. Meantime on the opposite side of the street the Palmer Hotel also opened in 1868 and it is still trading. An Institute was erected in 1896 and then finally demolished and just a plaque on the foundation stone laid by Sir Samuel Davenport remains on the site at the entrance to the town. The demolition was in the 1970s as the building was unsound. Importantly for a town near a mine site, a police station opened in 1872. The first police officer was stationed at the Reedy Creek mine a few kms away but in 1872 he argued that his presence was needed in the town where there were two hotels and many dwelling houses. Sir Samuel Davenport offered an allotment for the police station. The station was erected in 1873 but replaced with a new station in 1884. Just ten years later the police officer was recalled, the station closed and the building became a private residence. It still stand attached to the former Post Office which is now the General Store. In 1934 a second Police Station was built in Palmer. It is a fine stone and brick quoin building opposite the General Store. The old cell block behind it is still visible from the main street. It cost £975 to build yet closed 22 years later in 1956. The current General Store was built for August Wachtel in 1898. One of the early settlers of Palmer was William Loxton who later settled in a hut on the Murray River and gave his name to the town that developed there. Palmer is blessed with many olive trees. Sir Samuel Davenport trialled the commercial production of olives and olive oil in the 19th century. The 1880s olive grove of Palmer now surrounds the sports oval. The gates to the oval have the town’s Centenary Memorial celebrating the centenary of white settlement of South Australia. They were built in 1936 in Art Deco style. Opposite the entrance to the oval is the Palmer school. It began 1882 in the main street with 42 students and moved to a new stone school room on the present site in 1893. That stone building no longer remains but several 1940s or 1950s wooden school rooms remain there in Olive Grove Avenue. The stone school was still being used in the 1950s. Mr Kretschmer opened a blacksmiths in Palmer in 1890. In later years this blacksmith produced not only ploughs and horse and bullock shoes but also drays, wagons, buggies and sulkies and harvesters etc. The implement works moved to Port Adelaide in 1935.
The first Christ Church Lutheran building was converted to a teacher’s residence and the current church in Palmer was built in 1872 with the tower added in 1928. St Pauls was used for services until 1967 when the two Palmer Lutheran congregations amalgamated. The railway line was extended from Monarto South to Sedan in 1919 with a siding called Apamurra 2 kms outside of Palmer. This handled passengers but also the grain of the district. A local farmer subdivided some land to create the private town of Apamurra in 1921 but nothing much ever happened there. In 1961 bulk grain handling was introduced to Apamurra with the introduction of silos. But before the railway arrived Palmer was an important staging place for horses and coaches on their way to Mannum on the River Murray. Fresh horses could be obtained in Palmer or your own horse stabled overnight. Not far from Palmer the Monarto to Sedan railway had to cross Reedy Creek as it wends its way to the River Murray. A superb five span railway bridge was constructed. It still exists just beyond the Palmer Lutheran cemetery. The other government infrastructure which boosted the town was the Palmer pumping station constructed for the Mannum to Adelaide pipe line in 1955. Water from the River Murray was pumped from 1955. Work on the project began in 1949.
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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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.
The description at the Powder House. You can see how the Powder House fit into the larger mining operations on the hillside.
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.
Three generations of Terex mining trucks.
From left to right:
- Terex 33-19 Titan. A truck built only once in 1973 with a then record-breaking payload of 350 tons (318 tonnes).
- Terex 33-11C. Produced between 1981 and 1986, the 85 ton (77 tonne) hauler was one of the popular machines in the Terex mining truck range.
- Terex Unit Rig MT 6300AC. Introduced in 2008, the 400 ton (363 tonne) truck is nowadays part of Caterpillar's range of diesel-electric mining trucks as the 798 AC.
Dalong Mine is one of the older sites operated by the Tiefa Coal Mining Administration in Liaoning Provice, North-East China.
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.
Cute little steam train with 2 wagons filled with coal. I've wanted to design a little steam train for a while and I'm quite happy with how it looks.
Based loosely on the Hunslet Irish mail
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