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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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Portal of Manó adit in Nižná Slaná, Slovakia taken trough old Jupiter-37A lens.
Some older photos taken in november 2017.
Abundancia, a small arid planet, and the richest colony of the G.M.F. in terms of ores.
The Locusts can collect the crystals directly from the ground, then the miners can fill the Mammoths with this shiny loot.
Groganville which was formerly a mining town and now has a very low population. Close to Mareeba in Queensland, Australia.
The name Groganville is derived from Patrick Grogan, who operated a shop in the town in the 1890s. It was formerly known as Limestone.
Patrick Grogan was the son of Bryan Grogan & Grandson of William Grogan convict per the Isabella in 1823. William Grogan held 9800 acres on the Lachland Valley way near Bowning in New South Wales. it was known as the Grogan Farm at Limestone Creek, a portion of it was split off to Bryan & became known as "Groganville" & was operated by Patrick's older half-brother WJ Grogan.
Patrick encouraged his brothers to the new gold fields of Far North Queensland. James Killian Grogan, John & Brian Grogan joined him, as did their father Bryan. The Grogan family owned many business ventures in the new town of Limestone creek including the butchering or abattoir business as well as the cordial factory and pubs in town as well as a large portion of the Anglo Saxon mine.
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Nevadaville was a gold-mining town in Gilpin County, Colorado, United States. It was also known in the 1860s and 1870s as Nevada City. The post office at Nevadaville was called the Bald Mountain post office, to avoid confusion with other Nevadas and Nevadavilles. The community is now largely a ghost town, although not completely deserted. The Nevadaville Masonic Temple that started in 1861 still holds regular meetings. Nevadaville started in 1859, soon after John H. Gregory found the first lode gold in what is now Colorado. At the time, the townsite was in western Kansas Territory. The town grew to house the miners working the Burroughs lode and the Kansas lode. The population was predominantly Irish.[1]
This is the end section of the following photo. Had to get creative to maKe out the letters 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.
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 Lebanon Mining Company finally strikes the Hise Lode 1,100 feet from the portal. Profitable veins are found and the company enjoys an excellent reputation as a solid producer.
In 1885, the Lebanon is one of only 50 mines in the Georgetown area still producing ore. The tunnel reached its greatest length of 1,200 feet in 1886, but drastic silver prices declined ending further work. By the end of the decade, the mine was silent.
Today you can enhance your Georgetown Train Ride with an optional walking tour of the Lebanon Silver Mine, located at the halfway point on the railroad. The tour takes you 500 feet into a mine tunnel bored in the 1870s. Your guide will point out rich veins of silver and tell you about early mining.
“Throughout most of its history,” an article reads, “Gilman as been a company town… a family town.” Gilman were a myriad of mines: Ida May, Little Duke, Ground Hog, Belden, Iron Mask, May Queen, Kingfisher, Little Chief, Crown Point, and Little Ollie, the oldest dating back to 1878. On May 5, 1879, a Judge by the name of D. D. Belden discovered what would become Belden Mine, a lode so famous that the whole strip of subterranean activity below Battle Mountain and Gilman along Eagle Gulch would later become known simply as “Belden.” Later that year, a local newsman discovered what would be developed into Iron Mask Mine, the principal producer of lead and zinc within Colorado for decades. Soon, the mining town evolved far beyond a primitive mining camp on the side of a mountain to a village where families could prosper, supplied by the railroad below and Kelly Toll Road, now US Highway #24, above. There was a theater where traveling dramatic troupes would perform, hotels like Iron Mask, boarding houses, schools, and even a newspaper named “The Gilman Enterprise.”
The Mariscal Mine was a mercury mining operation in the southern part of what is now Big Bend National Park. The mine operated until World War II, producing nearly a quarter of all the mercury produced in the U.S. from 1900 to 1943. This is now on the National Register of Historic Places but is very difficult to visit on account of its remoteness.
The brick building on the left side of the image contained the ovens in which the operation baked the ore to extract the mercury. Over the years, the bricks became so permeated with mercury that visitors are advised to not touch the bricks due to the possibility of heavy metal poisoning. Otherwise, visitors can wander all over the area. There is a mine entrance on the far side of the building.
These are the Octan Mining Bots from my last scene for the Andromeda;s Gates RPG over at Eurobricks. The smaller one is called an Explorobot and the larger guy is called a Mechanical Miner.
These little guys are loads of fun to play with, even if they are such an odd couple!
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Photo from the first New Year´s trip to the abandoned iron ore mines. The mining ended here in 2008.
An old mining structure keeps watch above the Pennsylvania Mine, by the Peru Creek, just outside Montezuma, Colorado.
Looking up in the lobby of the Hearst Memorial Mining building, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA. Olympus 9-18 @ 9mm. Some barrel distortion is visible in the straight horizontal lines near top and bottom.
Michael's version here, taken with a wider lens.
View of coal mine from 100 metres tall Skalny mound. This is one of the oldest running coal mines in Poland, located on 18th century. It's owned by Polska Grupa Górnicza (PGG, the Polish Mining Group). Colliery is directly connected with Łaziska power plant by belt conveor. The Skalny mound were formed by this coal mine.
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Panorama zakładu górniczego wprost z wysokości blisko 100 metrów nad poziomem terenu, czyli hałdy Skalny w Łaziskach Górnych. Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego "Bolesław Śmiały", wchodząca w skład Polskiej Grupy Górniczej, jest jednym z trzech, oprócz elektrowni i huty - największych zakładów przemysłowych w Łaziskach Górnych. Jednocześnie jest to jedna z najstarszych, czynnych do dziś kopalń węgla kamiennego. Tradycje górnictwa węgla na terenie dzisiejszych Łazisk Górnych są obecne już od ponad 230 lat. Pierwotne górnictwo w XVIII wieku w tym rejonie stanowił zlepek niewielkich sztolni i kopalń we władaniu książąt pszczyńskich, z czasem scalanych w większe zakłady. Pierwszą kopalnią z prawdziwego zdarzenia w tym rejonie była kopalnia "Szczęście Henryka", uruchomiona w 1779 roku. Obecna nazwa kopalni została nadana w 1947 roku, po połączeniu z kopalnią "Waleska". W obecnym krajobrazie kopalni widać od lewej wieżę szybu zjazdowo - materiałowego Aleksander I oraz Zakład Wzbogacania i Odsiarczania Miałów poniżej, pośrodku budynki Zakładu Przeróbki Mechanicznej Węgla z widocznym osadnikiem Dorre'a oraz po prawej wieżę basztową wydobywczego szybu Aleksander III z wyciągiem skipowym. Kopalnia ta jest laureatem wielu nagród oraz należy do najbardziej efektywnych kopalń w Polsce. Obecnie w kopalni pracuje około 1400 górników i jest to najmniejszy zakład grupy PGG. Wydobycie kopalni wynosi w granicach 6000 - 7000 ton węgla na dobę. Co ciekawe, kopalnię i elektrownię łączy naziemny taśmociąg o długości około kilometra.
Hałda Skalny to jedno z największych w Polsce składowisk odpadów górniczych. Hałda ta zajmuje obecnie około 30 hektarów, jej wysokość względna wynosi 92 metry a szacowana ilość składowanego materiału to 17 milionów ton. Składowanie odpadów odbywało się tam w latach 1912 - 1998. Dużym problemem hałdy był samozapłon zgromadzonego na niej materiału, co skutkowało tworzeniem się niebezpiecznych wyziewów, zawierających m.in. tlenek węgla, czy siarkowodór. Dopiero jej ugaszenie przy pomocy zatłaczania mieszanki wodno - popiołowej z elektrowni spowodowało zanik tego zjawiska. Z hałdy rozciąga się wspaniały widok, nie tylko dla miłośników industrialu. Na wyciągnięcie ręki jest wspomniana kopalnia, Elektrownia Łaziska, będąca jedną z największych w Polsce oraz Huta Łaziska, produkująca żelazostopy. Nieco dalej majaczą Tychy oraz inne miasta GOP - u, takie jak Katowice, Zabrze, Ruda Śląska, po Gliwice. Dalsze obserwacje sięgają m.in Dąbrowy Górniczej i tamtejszej Huty "Katowice" oraz Koksowni Przyjaźń (ok. 39 - 40 km), Elektrowni Jaworzno III (26 km), Oświęcimia z kominami Zakładów Chemicznych Synthos w Dworach (ok. 32 km) a także Czechowice - Dziedzice i Bielsko - Biała z kominami elektrociepłowni EC 2 i EC 1 (32 - 39 km) aż po góry Beskidu Śląskiego. Widać również znakomicie elementy Rybnickiego Okręgu Węglowego, w tym "siostrę hałdy" Szarlotę (31 km) oraz Elektrownię Rybnik (ok. 24 km).
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A Mining Bee resting on Shortspur Seablush. Photographed on Vancouver Island.
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Hearst Memorial Mining Building, University of California, Berkeley. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and designated as California Historical Landmark #946 (Alameda County).
A screen grab of a dragline in action mining phosphate rock in Polk County. The Polk County History Center in Bartow has a section featuring one of the major sources of Central Florida’s prosperity. The source material are layers of bones and shells many millions of years old, the sediment from prehistoric times when the area was part of a large sea. The rock is refined to become a primary fertilizer material, via the addition of sulphuric acid to create phosphoric acid. Central Florida ranks second only to Morocco in phosphate rock deposits, which are a non-renewable resource.
It was my job as a fertilizer market analyst that first brought me to Florida in the mid-1980s. That might not seem the most enticing of careers, but in common with many colleagues and friends, it proved very rewarding and fulfilling. I lasted some 31 years in the business. I always enjoyed visits to the mines and processing plants, which included observing the extraction of the raw material from within a dragline cab.
The operation makes heavy environmental demands, including water use for the rock refinement. The phosphoric acid production process also creates by-product gypsum, which in the absence of any permitted commercial use must be dumped in high-maintenance stacks. Once the mine is depleted, the mining company is obligated to restore the landscape to its original state.
lovely light this morning at the National Mining Museum, Newtongrange nationalminingmuseum.com/ - a great place to visit
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Out of all the photos I had to edit I believe this one is the strongest. Originally I framed to be lower to the ground however re framing from a higher vantage pulled the view into the scene. Lighting was pretty standard. The only problem I ran into was lighting deeper into the scene. The further the path got the harder it got to light. I even attempted to drive my car pointed into the road to get the high beams however it was very harsh uncontrollable light. Because I was not able to light the scene completely the camera created this ugly noise grain in areas where there was no true light.
This photo will bring the element of depth to my concentration for it really draws the viewer deeper down the road and up towards to cosmos.
The mine was a challenge to my preconceptions. In Kailo they mine wolframite and casserite. Before the war the mines were operated by a state run company, the defunct infrastructure can be glimpsed under bushes and vines. The company still has a smart office in the centre of the village, but instead of mining they take a percentage of the proceeds of the artisan miners and the traders. Most of the workers are from the area, although I met some from the province of Kasai. Children were working with their parents, helping with panning for the ore, carrying and selling goods to the workers. The mine is made up of widely dispersed open pits. Most pits were 4 to 10 metres deep with the occasional 25 metre pit. Next to the pits were the temporary huts of the workers. There did not appear to be the squalor or disease that we find in gold mines. Although there were maison de tolerance as they are politely called here with the associated risks of sexual diseases, AIDS and child prostitution.
As we left the mine we crossed two four wheel drive cars carrying men from a British company interested in investing in the mine.