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Some of the photos are linked with Coal Mining and the Bwllfa Colliery in Cwmdare Rhondda. However most photos are unnamed.
HIM(mining gear) - 983674 Golem (2-3)
the golem is a small mining mech purposely build for the cramp conditions in underground mining operations. it has a diatanium gouging equipment and a a high intensity laser cutter.
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.
Found these 2 Mining or solitary Bee's in my garden today. ID uncertain possibly Andrena or Lasioglossum species but so many of them expert advise needed please, (9 pages of them in the book). Both have another view of same Bee in comments
Screens at Ayle Colliery. This is the last working colliery in England apart from the small free mines in the Forest of Dean.
Hairy-legged Mining Bee (Dasypoda hirtipes) digging -
Hosenbiene (Dasypoda hirtipes) beim Graben: Brandenburg (LDS) - Germany
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.
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.
W: 19.2 L: 10.8 300PPi
Digital Photography
25 sec | F2.8 | ISO 4000 | 14mm
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.
Mining Drill
Bob Campbell Geology Museum
Clemson University
This was part of the outside display and shows a mining drill that could be used to bore holes for explosive charges..
A Lee-Norse continuous miner and Joy electric shuttle car share the stage at the American Industrial Mining Co. display at the National Pike Steam, Gas and Horse Association 2018 summer show.
Hasselblad SWC
Fujicolor Pro 400H
This colliery, which before nationalisation was owned by Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., commenced operations in 1910, and the take is now served by two downcast shafts, one upcast shaft and a man-access drift. Of these, the main coal-winding shaft is No. 1, which is downcast, 13 ft. in dia. and 425 ft. deep to the Yard seam level. The other downcast is also 13 ft. in dia. but the upcast (No. 3) has a diameter of 15 ft. No. 2 shaft is sunk to the Five Quarter seam level with its winding inset at the Yard seam level where in addition to being used for manriding it deals with that fraction of the output with which the No. 1 shaft is unable to cope in two shifts’ winding. The No. 3 shaft is 548 ft. deep to the Five Quarter seam and is equipped with a single-deck cage suitable for relief manriding only.
Both the downcast shafts have doubledeck cages which carry two 10½-cwt. tubs on each deck. They are equipped with rail-type rigid guides, and No. 1 pit winding rope has a circumference of 4½ in. which is a quarter of an inch greater than the circumference of No. 2 pit winding rope. Steam winding is practised at both these shafts, the engines, which are of Robey manufacture, having cylinders of 20-in bore and 40-in stroke. Each winder is fitted with Black brakes and has a cylindrical drum 9 ft. dia. by 6 ft. wide.
Ellington has a severe water problem, as much as one million and twenty thousand gallons being pumped out of the pit daily, and we understand that at one time there was at least three tons of water raised for every ton of coal wound.
Information from Colliery Engineering Magazine via the Durham Mining Museum website.
This is a parasitised Andrena mining-bee that's been attacked by Stylops, one of the Strepsiptera or twisted-wing flies. I think the bee is probably Andrena scotica but the effect of being stylopised gives the bee an odd inter-sex appearance.
The mature female form of the parasite can be seen protruding out between the abdominal segments.There's a second one out-of view on the other side. The females look more like a flattened larva and have no eyes, legs or antennae. They do not leave the bee. The males (even though of bizarre appearance) are more typical and emerge from the bee and fly off looking for another stylopised bee so that they can mate with the female parasite.
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]
I took myself on a bit of an expedition last week up to the Cwm Rheidol lead mine ruins. It was a bit of a last minute decision so my Light painting kit was limited - I'm going back at some point with some more toys (and a better safety plan!!!*)
f3.5
iso 100
10mm
80 second exposure
Led orb tool, LED Lenser and flash gels
*Compulsory warning: In no way do I advocate or recommend going anywhere near old ruins or mines. These places are dangerous.
This area is some size and can park or put a lot of stuff under this platform and this looks up the valley to Guanella Pass which is closed in winter,
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.
An old mining place, it's on CR 119 I forget the excat location buy I pass it on the was to Estes Pk.
The moors, or fells, between Weardale and Teesdale. There are signs of mining and industrial leavings everywhere you look.
(Andrena cineraria) One of the most distinctive solitary bees with striking black and grey/white markings. Female Ashy-mining bees excavate small tunnels in the earth to make their nests.
I have never seen one of these before, this one was in the garden.
More info can be found at: www.bumblebeeconservation.org/ashy-mining-bee/
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