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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.
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
Built to serve the mining and timber industries of the California’s Mother Lode, construction of the Sierra Railway from Oakdale to Jamestown in 1897 brought reliable transportation to the region for the first time. The line was extended to Sonora in 1899. By 1900, the Sierra connected with the West Side Flume and Lumber Company in Tuolumne City.
The Sierra established its headquarters and maintenance shops in Jamestown, now site of Railtown 1897, the Historic Sierra Railroad Shops.
The Jamestown shops remained intact, serving the occasional needs of the motion picture and television industries. Over 200 movies, TV shows, and commercials have featured Railtown and its trains.
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
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.
This is one of the original 1880's houses still standing in the gold mining town of Sumpter. It's empty, but many of the buildings have been restored.
Eastern Oregon
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]
(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 like its white beard! 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/
© Mike Broome 2021
In 1930, however, the Yule-Colorado company was awarded the most prestigious marble contract of the time—that of the block for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. After two failed attempts to quarry a “perfect” block the third try succeeded. This was, at the time, the largest block of marble ever quarried in the world. It then took workers another 4 days to get this 56 ton block of marble down the mountain. The block was loaded onto a rail car and shipped to Vermont for cutting and then to Arlington Cemetery for carving, where it still resides today.
The Yule Marble quarry closed in 1941 as a result of declining demand and the entry of the United States into WWII. Much of the equipment and railroad was scrapped and used in the war effort. The population of Marble continued to decline…down to a population of 1 in the 1950s (schoolteacher Teresa Herman). But the beautiful valley did not remain a ghost town for long, attracting tourists, retirees and even a failed ski area development in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1990 the quarry was reopened. For a list of the buildings and monuments using Colorado-Yule marble, please click the following link: www.dfohgfddhojhdd
The story of Marble is closely connected to the marble quarry and finishing mill. A large part of that story is the far-sightedness and determination of those who pursued their dream and produced some of the most beautiful and meaningful monuments in the country that stand as an inspiration to all of us.
Mining. In the depths of this softness. Plentiful goodness, both liquid and solid, therein found. Sustenance rich in flavour, thoroughly energizing too.
Exact Mining Services Kenworth T904 hauls a CAT 777D Dump Truck from Whyalla on-route to Telfer Goldmine in Western Australia.
Lego Technic Mining Shovel - TEREX RH400 SBrick version
Built by OneMoreRobot November 2014 - March 2015
Designed by Sheo
Custom engraved tiles by Chrome Block City
Control technology by SBrick
SBrick interface by OneMoreRobot
So yeah, a few days ago the Gotham Treasury was attacked. No, it wasn't some badass heist involving a mining drill and four modified musclecars. It was done from a chair in front of a PC monitor. Y'know, the pussy way. About a $40,000,000 take, some of that being my money. So yeah, now it's personal. Some of Arnie's bigheads gave me a trail to follow, turns out the coward lives on a backroad just outside the city. There's at least a quarter mile walk before you get to the fenced-off enclosure of a home. An electrified fence with barbwire on top. Neither mattered for me. Walking up to the house it just gets more fucked up. Where there are windows there's just bricks. Where there's a door there's a keypad, a speaker, and a bulletproof plexiglass door with multiple locks. And to top it all off, a bigass security camera pointed at yours truly. I give the fuck watching through it a one finger salute before I slice through the door to meet him...
I shot this in the middle of La Paz County, Arizona. The structure is what's left of an old, 19th-century mining building.