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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
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
Goldstream Dredge No. 8 is a ladder dredge operated by the Fairbanks Exploration Company from 1928 to 1959. It is located on the old Steese Highway between Fairbanks and Fox in the central part of Alaska.
Starting in the 1920s, water was brought to the area through the 90-mile (145 km) Davidson Ditch for gold mining. The Goldstream Dredge No. 8 cut a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) track and produced 7.5 million ounces of gold.
The dredge was named a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark. In 1984, it was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.
Today, it is open to the public. During summer months, tours of the dredge and gold panning are available for a small fee.
Lee, Russell,, 1903-1986,, photographer.
Detail of the mill at the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado
1940 Oct.
1 slide : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Gold mining
Industrial facilities
United States--Colorado--Ouray County
Format: Slides--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-18 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34179
Call Number: LC-USF35-243
Some of the photos are linked with Coal Mining and the Bwllfa Colliery in Cwmdare Rhondda. However most photos are unnamed.
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.
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.
Kolmanskop, a Ghost Town, is located in the Sperrgebiet NP, the "Forbidden Diamond Area" in Namibia & a government permit is required to enter.
In 1908 diamonds were discovered in the area, owned at that time by Germany, and Germans flooded to the area. In 1912 the area produced one million carats or 11.7% of the world's total diamonds.
Such wealth meant the miners could afford all the luxuries to be sent over from Europe. One of the 2 doctors even prescribed caviar sandwiches & champagne for his patients as a tonic every evening.
The town had a casino, school, hospital, fine residences, a ballroom, 4 lane skittle alley, ice factory and even the first x-ray machine in the southern hemisphere. Fresh water was imported daily. The life was not quite so luxurious for the non-European workers.
The town started to decline after WW1 & even more when another great diamond area was found near the Orange River. The last 3 families left in 1956 & the sand continued to reclaim the buildings. The mining company De Beers set up a museum in 1980 to preserve some of the history of Kolmanskop
Now a museum/tourist attraction with just a few buildings renovated it is well worth a visit - they even have a café!
Situated outside the Broken Hill Council Chambers are sculptures created by Broken Hill artist Geoff De Main, commemorating the Syndicate of Seven; the name given to the original members of the Broken Hill Mining Company who pegged mining leases Block 10 to 16 along the Line of Lode in September 1883.
These leases covered the exposed orebody and the whole of the easily worked ore, which would become known as the richest deposit of silver, lead, and zinc in the world.
The members, who were all workmates at the Mount Gipps Station, were:
George McCulloch (station manager)
Charles Rasp (boundary rider)
Philip Charley (station hand)
George Urquhart (sheep overseer)
George Lind (bookkeeper)
David James (dam sinking contractor)
James Poole (employed by David James)
All agreed to contribute £70 each towards the venture.
In 1884, the syndicate agreed to divide their shareholding and eventually there were fourteen equal partners but only Rasp, McCulloch, Charley, James and Poole retained and original shareholding. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited was formed in 1885 and the chimney of BHP's first works office survives near the old slag heap.
The BHP Mine's richest ore was exhausted by 1908 and the company began to look eslwhere for profit. The wealth won at Broken Hill by BHP established Australia's iron and steel industry. BHP ceased operations in Broken Hill in 1939. In 2001, the company became a part of BHP Billiton, the world's largest resource company.
Charles Rasp:
Charles Rasp (1846 - 1907), prospector, was born on the 7th of October 1846 at Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg, where he was educated. A clerk in a chemical firm, he later trained as an edible-oil technologist with a large chemical manufacturing company in Hamburg, where he worked in the export department as he was fluent in English and French. Rasp was delicate and the bitter winter of 1868 brought on a serious lung weakness, so he decided to leave Germany for a warmer climate.
Rasp arrived in Melbourne in 1869 and found work pruning vines. After two years on agricultural properties he tried the Victorian goldfields but the days of the big strikes were over and the slushy diggings gave him a hacking cough. On advice from friends he moved to New South Wales. He worked on Walwa station, then wandered from place to place until engaged as a boundary rider on Mount Gipps station in the Barrier Ranges in the far west. After discoveries of silver at Silverton and Day Dream every station-hand in the area searched for indications of the metal.
When his duties led him to the 'hill', Rasp often examined the outcrop. No geologist, he was observant and on the 5th of September 1883 pegged the first block on the 'Broken Hill', which he thought was a mountain of tin. On advice of the Mount Gipps manager, George McCulloch, a 'syndicate of seven' was formed and seven blocks pegged to include the whole ridge. Each member subscribed £70 to the unregistered 'Broken Hill Mining Co.' and paid £1 a week towards working the claim.
The syndicate had little success for some months and the Adelaide analysts' reports were disappointing as they only tested for tin. The discovery of rich silver ore in 1885 led to the formation of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co., with a capital of 16,000 £20 shares, 14,000 of which went to the syndicate, and to a rapid growth of the mining industry at Broken Hill. Within five years Rasp had made a fortune.
He was prominently connected with Broken Hill for some years. With a large number of shares in the company, he moved to Adelaide when dividends were declared; he married Agnes Maria Louise Klevesahl there on the 22nd of July 1886. They bought a house, Willyama, where his wife entertained in the grand manner. Rasp preferred his library of French and German books. For some years he had mining interests in Western Australia.
Leaving an estate of £48,000, Rasp died suddenly from a heart attack at his residence on the 22nd of May 1907 and was buried in North Road cemetery, Adelaide. He was childless. In 1914 his widow married Count von Zedtwitz and died in Adelaide in 1936. Oil paintings of Rasp and his wife are in the Charles Rasp Memorial Library, Broken Hill.
Source: City Of Broken Hill & Australian Dictionary Of Biography.
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.
(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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