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Entrance to the Blue Bird mine.
Over 140 years ago prospectors in the scrappy mining boomtown of Caribou were buzzing with You can still see the bunkhouse dating back to at least 1877 and a stone caretaker's house that was built when mining resumed after the Great Depression. Several other structures, outhouse, mine entrance, chicken coop, can also be seen. That bunkhouse must have looked awful inviting after a 10 hour day in a mine shaft.news of the discovery of a nearby silver vein. Back in 1871 some said the ore was running six thousand dollars a ton. The mine was active for over 90 years finally closing in early 1960ās. In the early 1900s the narrow gauge train brought visitors up the Switzerland Trail to have an outing in this quiet meadow for picnics, wildflower collecting, and sightseeing. The miners' bunkhouse was converted into a boarding house, catering to tourists until the Switzerland Trail stopped running in 1919.
I'm very pleased with what's turning up in our Staffordshire garden. We moved last autumn and I was wondering what would be around this spring.
I was mowing the grass today and spotted a little tumulus of excavated soil on the lawn; like a mini-volcano. I recognised this as a mining bee nest hole; marked it and kept a check on it during the afternoon. It wasn't long before this head appeared.
There's not much to see, but I reckon this is a female Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva). Hopefully I'll get some shots of the complete individual before long. I think it's one of our prettiest mining bees!
[Update: I did get a shot of the complete individual and surprise, surprise - it's not Andrena fulva but Andrena haemorrhoa! I should have known. Andrena fulva have much darker hairs on the face.]
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.
Three Legged Cross, Dorset
Andrena sp. (unidentified)
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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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Exact Mining Services Kenworth T904 hauls a CAT 777D Dump Truck from Whyalla on-route to Telfer Goldmine in Western Australia.
It isnāt to say that the idea of building a flume was so crazy. Flumes for placer mining were common at the time. Flume construction methods had been used in California for years and required only minimal skills. To cross arroyos and washes, water could be funneled through flume boxes supported by trestles. But in the canyons of the Dolores and San Miguel Rivers, minimal engineering skill was not enough. This flume would have to be ten miles long, and to complete the entire route at the proper gradient, the Flume would have to cling to seven miles of sheer rock walls, at times suspended hundreds of feet above the river.
A male Andrena mining bee, emerging from a nest hole in our Staffordshire garden this morning.
It's likely to be a Buffish Mining Bee (Andrena nigroaenea). There's a small aggregation of nest holes of this species in this part of the garden.
Will I can figured one thing out - this had a belt for movement of material and
Georgetown was a hot mining area and silver also.
A display showing a rockdrill , I think it would be a Holmans air powered one . Many were used down the Cornish Tin and Copper mines drilling into solid granite rock ready to put explosive charges into to blast their way through in search of of following seams of the metal's ore .
Think back to days before a bit of kit like this and you would have one miner standing with a drill bit up against the rock face and another two each side of him taking turns at swinging sledgehammers at the end of the drill with he miner holding it twisting it a quarter turn in between each hit And all done with candlelight !! The candle would be on the miner's hat held on with a dollop of mud !!
It was a tough life down the mines and with a hug climb down and then up many many ladders and a long walk between the access shaft to the rock face - getting to and from where they were working could add on a number of hours to the working day !!
Tubular boilers were popular in mining districts. Their name came from the long tubes running the horizontal length inside a cylindrical-shaped boiler. Inside the boiler the tubes were surrounded by water. Below the boiler a fire was kept burning. The heat and smoke from the fire was drawn through the long tubesāheating the waterāand continued on, rising up through the smokestack. This process created steam very efficiently and powered mining and milling machines.
Abandoned mining ruins and old dump truck in the Mojave Desert.
3 days after the full moon, it was dark as hell and exposures were pushed to the digital limit.
Night, moonlight, CTO and green geleld flashlight.
5 min F4 ISO100
The National Mining Museum Scotland was created in 1984, to preserve the physical surface remains of Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange, Midlothian, Scotland. The colliery, sunk by the Lothian Coal Company in 1890, came into production in 1894. It was nationalised in 1947 with the formation of the National Coal Board, and had closed in 1981.
The buildings were recognised as being of outstanding interest as they formed an almost complete survival of a major Victorian colliery, with later additions. Some demolition, such as the 1950s canteen and medical centre, has occurred but the vast bulk of the structures stand. The winding engine is by Grant, Ritchie and Company and the colliery headstocks were built by Arrols of Glasgow. From 1998 onwards several of the main structures were stabilised and new visitor facilities opened. [Wikipedia]
On August 31, 2021, the legendary Rio Grande Southern Railroad was brought back to life (if only for a day). Built in 1891 by Otto Mears, the original RGS was located in Coloradoās southwest corner and ran between Durango and Ridgway via Lizard Head Pass, hauling coal, silver ore, and other goods from the mining communities of Telluride and Rico. The RGS was profitable for only a few years before a silver panic crippled its finances, but nevertheless it managed to stay in business, struggling through two world wars before running its last train in 1951. Following this, its 3-foot-gauge rails were taken up.
Rio Grande Southern No. 20, an 1899 Schenectady Ten-Wheeler, is one of four RGS steam locomotives still in existence. It was preserved by the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club in 1952 when the RGS was abandoned and over the years was cosmetically restored for display, first in Alamosa and later at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden. After fifty years sitting cold, No. 20 was transported to the Strasburg Rail Road in Strasburg, Penn., for a top-to-bottom restoration beginning in 2006 that took 12 long years to compete. The restoration was spearheaded by a donation from the Moedinger family of Pennsylvania, who put up $400,000 for the effort. After additional fundraising, No. 20 finally steamed again around the loop track at the Colorado Railroad Museum in 2020.
While a 3/4th mile loop is nice for a short train ride, Jeff Taylor and others at CRRM desired take No. 20 to a railroad where it could really stretch its legs. That opportunity came in 2021. For No. 20ās first major outing since restoration the museum took the 4-6-0 to the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad at Antonito, Colorado. Its visit coincided with the Victorian Iron Horse Roundup, held in in celebration of the C&TSās 50th anniversary, which featured four locomotives built before 1900.
The trip with No. 20 on August 31 was sponsored by TRAINS Magazine, with editor Jim Wrinn and video producer Kevin Gilliam coordinating the event for photographers. The event was dubbed āSunset on the Rio Grande Southern.ā
Tickets for the event went fast, despite it costing nearly $900. The primary goal of āSunset on the Rio Grande Southernā was to recreate an RGS trip that the late William Moedinger photographed in 1941, with the brakeman riding the pilot beam to watch for landslides. The first half of the consist matched the train that Moedinger photographed that day, which was featured on the cover of TRAINS in February 1942. William Moedingerās son Linn was the person that did much of the restoration work on No. 20 during its time in Pennsylvania.
Denver & Rio Grande Western 2-8-2 No. 463, owned by the C&TS, was re-lettered as long-scrapped Rio Grande Southern No. 455 for the trip, and doubleheaded with No. 20. Thanks to decades of hard work by the Friend of the C&TS, the Cumbres & Toltec was able to provide a long string of authentic narrow-gauge equipment with an authentic RGS short caboose bringing up the markers. The scenery on the C&TS between Antonito and Osier is similar to the territory the RGS ran in.
The charter was an incredible experience and recreated scenes that hadnāt been seen since the 1940s. Was it worth the money? Iāll let you be the judge of that, but for me it certainly was. A big thanks is due Jim Wrinn and Kevin Gilliam, plus the men and women of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic for making it all possible.
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Mining Outpost: This is the 1st alternate build with the 3in1 Creator Neo Classic Space set proposal. The link leads to an animated video for presentational purposes. If you like it you may as well support it at LegoIdeas. Thx.
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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.
Asteroid Mining Ship
Another creation Iāve had sitting around for months that Iām just now taking the time to photograph (albeit a hasty photo shoot once again)
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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.
1950s style depiction of mining an asteroid - probably for precious metals.
May be back on the cards in the 21st Century
in underground mine "Hlubina". In operation 1852-1992. It belongs to the unique area together with coking plant and ironworks owned by Vitkovice.