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(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
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
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.
Gadolinite-(Y) with Thalénite-(Y). Gadolinite-(Y), seen here as shiny black grains, is yttrium iron beryllium silicate. Thalénite-(Y), seen as pinkish crystals, is yttrium silicate fluoride. This specimen is radioactive due to the presence of small amounts of uranium and thorium. White Cloud Pegmatite. South Platte Pegmatite Mining District. Pike National Forest. Near South Platte, Jefferson Co., Colo.
An old mining place, it's on CR 119 I forget the excat location buy I pass it on the was to Estes Pk.
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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Sepia treatment of old mining buildings and chimney in Ravenswood with texture added. Historic gold-mining district from 1868 onwards.
(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/
© Mike Broome 2021
Retaining system for open cut mining project
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This mine once belong to a family but decided to the let Boulder County, Colorado to take it over and is now on the Historical List. This is the area the the auto engine was used to lift and lower stuff down the mine. This was on a tour of the area - we could look in but not get inside the building.
The south facade of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building at UC Berkeley is reflected in the pool at the mining circle. The building was designed by John Galen Howard and built 1902-1907, with a massive renovation 1998-2003.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearst_Memorial_Mining_Building
Nikon 35mm f/1.8 @ f/4. Several merged exposures.
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mainly inspired by the Hitachi EX-8000.
remote-controlled undercarriage (motorized tracks), pneumatic system for the boom (manual), folding stairs (manual too).
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.
There's lots of rock walls in this area but the wood for this structure is gone but on the map one can see the foot print that's at the top of this hill.
The Afon Dwyryd (in English River of Two Fords) as it runs past Portmeirion Village, in Gwynedd, North Wales.
The Dwyryd rises in the hills to the north of Ffestiniog. At its most northern extent, water draining from Moelwyn Mawr drains into the Tanygrisiau Reservoir, the outflow of which forms the source of the river.
The river drains off igneous and ancient rocks of the Cambrian and Ordovician which are all base-poor. Much of the catchment has also been used for commercial forestry during the last hundred years. Therefore, many of the tributaries are highly acidic because of atmospheric acidification.
This has constrained the quality of the fishery and the biodiversity in many tributaries. Some of these problems have been exacerbated by past industrial actions including metal mining, slate mining, animal skin processing and the use by the army of a gunnery range with large amounts of emplaced metal cartridge shells.
At no point is the river deep enough to accommodate sea-going ships, but in the second half of the 18th century several quays were constructed west of Maentwrog from which small vessels took cargoes of timber and, increasingly, slate to be transferred to sea-going ships in deeper water south west of what would become Porthmadog, transferring to Porthmadog itself when its harbour was opened in 1824.
The river was and remains so shallow that viable cargoes could only be carried at spring tides. Some of the quays remain to this day, used by anglers. The opening of the Ffestiniog Railway in 1836 dealt a mortal blow to the Dwyryd traffic, which ended completely by 1860.
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