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Victor is a statutory city in Teller County, Colorado, United States. Gold was discovered in Victor in the late 19th century, an omen of the future of the town. With Cripple Creek, the mining district became the second largest gold mining district in the country and realized approximately $10 billion of mined gold in 2010 dollars. It reached its peak around the turn of the century when there were about 18,000 residents in the town. Depleted ore in mines, labor strife and the exodus of miners during World War I caused a steep decline in the city's economy, from which it has never recovered. The population was 397 at the 2010 census. There is a resumed mining effort on Battle Mountain.
Victor was founded in 1891, shortly after Winfield Scott Stratton discovered gold nearby. The town was named after the Victor Mine,[7] which may have been named for an early settler, Victor Adams. In 1892 Harry, Frank and Warren Woods founded the Mt. Rosa Mining, Milling and Land Company.[8][nb 1] Battle Mountain, located just above Victor, had the largest, most prolific mines in the mining district and the town became known as the "City of Mines." Victor officially became a city on July 16, 1894.[8] In 1894 the Woods brothers discovered gold when they began digging the foundation for a building, which resulted in the creation of the Gold Coin Mine. At that time 8,000 people lived in Victor.[8
Eureka is a museum of mining history. Situated on highway 50 about halfway between Austin and Ely, few other towns offer as much to the curious visitor as does Eureka. The year 1864 saw the discovery of lead-silver deposits as spectacular as any in the country. But there was a problem. Bi-metallic ore required refining methods and techniques not yet developed. The first plant built in 1869 was a failure. Another was built that was more successful and was the forerunner of even more advanced methods. The boom then began in earnest and continued until there were nearly 10,000 people in the town. About the time production began to decline, a railroad was brought into Eureka. Because of the town's central location in the state, it became a railhead for the whole area.
A short way out of Cartagena, we are driving through the old silver-mining regions of Sierra Minera de Cartagena and La Unión
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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.
I discovered an admirer-er, that's not a stalker , says I've been trying to figure out what draws your interest, I saw you open your camera case, am enjoying my new adventure camera experience, well the conversation went like this,, They went to a lengthy process of replication late 1800 - early 1900, however some omissions, evidence, construction material, laminated wood products, electrified Kerosene lamp and door pulls knobs and such. Wow ! you are a history buff as well ! Have had experience in building and repair furniture, in DNA
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.
I think it is a mining bee. .let me know as it is the first one i have seen in Goffs Park. Not the sharpest shot in the world, but it was a first for me.😊
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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]
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.
A short way out of Cartagena, we are driving through the old silver-mining regions of Sierra Minera de Cartagena and La Unión
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/history/layers-history-and-a...
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.
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
Exact Mining Services Kenworth T908 parked up at Yorkeys Crossing loaded with a refurbished CAT 992G Front End Loader bound for Whyalla.
Andrena sp.
A Mining Bee resting on Shortspur Seablush. Photographed on Vancouver Island.
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A photograph of a cluster of small mine buildings, some of which are raised, and a
plant with smokestacks at the bottom of a hillside.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Creator:
McCracken, J. W.
Date:
1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928;
1929; 1930
Location:
Cranberry (N.C.); Avery County (N.C.);
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available
online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html
EMCO 7202 (ALCO RS11) loading in Erie's Area 1 pit. Nine cars with 85 long tons in each. The shovel is a Bucyrus 190B
April 1, 1973.
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 ground engineering expert applying shotcrete to a retaining structure
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Site of gold mining in Tamiougou just south of Kongoussi. Paul Sawadogo, 27 years old, prospector says, "I started panning for gold at 17. The gallery is 10m deep. Each prospector spends 12 hours underground and brings up several kilos of ore will be crushed and then washed. The last accident happened 6 years ago." Burkina Faso. Africa.
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Gold mining is a big industry in Western Australia. The original photo was taken at the Kalgoorlie Super Pit mine, the largest open pit gold mine in Australia.
The shovel seen in the photo is a Komatsu PC8000. It is actually bigger than a house.
The trucks are CAT 793's - they are almost 20ft / 6m tall and carry 240 tonnes of rock.
I thought it was a interesting subject for a miniature fake...