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Continuing my Southern Arizona Adventure 2024 with a visit to Bisbee Arizona. This is stage 6 of 9.
This is an outdoor display of mining equipment at the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum. Bisbee is a very walkable town. This was working mining equipment, now it is a art on public display. Bisbee is a very walkable town.
You Haven’t Seen Bisbee Until You’ve Seen the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
With a history deserving of National Landmark status, it’s only fitting that Bisbee’s past be captured and reflected in a museum like no other. The Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum takes you and your family back in time to the days of the Arizona Territory, telling the story of a copper-mining town’s role in the industrialization of America, a history of your grandparents’ generation. An Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum offers an interactive trip back in time for the whole family. The American Industrial revolution not fun to learn about? Think again! Why copper? Find out! The Museum offers the stories of how people reacted to family and social issues through the last 125 years and how their responses helped shape the city, the state, and the nation.
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This museum, one of the Smithsonian Institution's only rural branches, documents the history of Bisbee's mining days as well as the town's contribution to the country's industrialization. Located in the town's main plaza, Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum is a must-visit for anyone interested in mining and minerals. It features a remarkable mineral display as well as photographic exhibits, and you can also peruse riveting sections that illuminate the nuances of daily life in the copper mines.
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A small, but informative and interesting museum that is a local affiliate of the Smithsonian. Lots of information about Bisbee during its copper mining heyday. DON'T SKIP THE 2nd FLOOR! it's a beautiful mineralogical display of the variety of ores from the mines around Bisbee. - Jake S. Alexandria, VA.
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Bisbee is a city[5] in and the county seat of Cochise County[6] in southeastern Arizona, United States. It is 92 miles (148 km) southeast of Tucson and 11 miles (18 km) north of the Mexican border.
Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town in 1880, and named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of the financial backers of the adjacent Copper Queen Mine.
Today, the historic city of Bisbee is known as "Old Bisbee" and is home to a thriving downtown cultural scene. This area is noted for its architecture, including Victorian-style houses and an elegant Art Deco county courthouse. Because its plan was laid out to a pedestrian scale before the automobile, Old Bisbee is compact and walkable. The town's hilly terrain is exemplified by the old four-story high school; each floor has a ground-level entrance.
Natural vegetation around Bisbee has a semi-desert appearance with shrubby acacia, oak and the like, along with cacti, grass, ocotillo and yucca. The town itself is much more luxuriant with large trees such as native cypress, sycamore and cottonwood plus the introduced ailanthus and Old World cypresses, cedars and pines. Palms are capable of growing tall, but are not reliably hardy. At least one mature blue spruce may be seen.
Haiku thoughts:
Dusty streets wind tight,
Colors spill from old brick walls,
Echoes of the past.
Southern Arizona Adventure 2024,
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.
Will I can figured one thing out - this had a belt for movement of material and
Georgetown was a hot mining area and silver also.
We seen several of these with no info about but the opening was secured with iron bar's over a heavy wood door when we finally seen some info. There all powder keg storage.
Anlaby Open Garden Day 16 October 2021
Anlaby is the oldest merino stud in South Australia, and was established in 1839, when a flock of 5,000 sheep were walked from Sydney.
The property was settled by Frederick Hansborough Dutton. He was an astute farmer and business man who had interests in copper mines after copper was discovered in Kapunda.
Anlaby prospered and in its heyday occupied 160,000Ha of land. It was one of the most prominent rural holdings in South Australia.
The property is heritage listed with the homestead sitting in approximately 10 acres of gardens. Anlaby once had 14 gardeners. The gardens include the largest collection of significant trees (620 trees) on the National Trust register in Australia.
The western margin of the Shan Plateau in eastern Myanmar is rich in gemstones such as rubies and sapphires, as well as gold, tin and lead. Working conditions in Myanmar mines can be poor - often workers’ health, safety and human rights are low priorities.
There is little to no protection against falling rocks, gases in the subsurface, the pervasive dust, >35°C temperatures or malaria. Tools are rudimentary and most rock is broken, sorted and transported by hand. Wages for mine workers (in 2014) were typically from 5000 Kyat (about $5) per month to 1000 Kyat (about $1) per day.
Serious kit in play as a massive truck is loaded with phosphate rock ore at the Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP) mine at Khourigba in Morocco. This is the world's largest phosphate rock mine. (Central Florida is another major centre for phosphate rock mining.) The ore will then be moved to a processing plant for washing and the removal of impurities to create high-grade phosphate rock. This may be applied directly on to the soil as a fertilizer, but most will be further processed by reacting the rock with sulphuric acid to form phosphoric acid (an ingredient in fizzy drinks, among other uses). Most phos acid will in turn be further processed to create a range of phosphorus-containing fertilizers and animal feed.
This is a female Andrena nigroaenea mining bee. There is a colony of them in our front garden. There has been lots of activity, with males swarming all over the site for over a week. Lots of females are emerging now.
This individual is freshly-emerged by the look of it, and having a clean before setting off.
Opening in 1899, the last recorded production was in 1920. Total production during its twenty-one years of operation was estimated at thirty-five thousand tons of ore, containing one thousand tons of copper.
Nevadaville Colorado = at one time I did see where this place had a name but I can't find it now - It's the only place left standing on this mountain side.
Nevadavilles history is much the same as Black Hawk and Central City. This was another town in the crowded Gregory Gulch, formed after the 1859 gold discovery by John Gregory. The settlement was known as just Nevada until around 1870 when the name was changed to Nevadaville.
Whereas Blackhwak was the smelting and industrial center of the district, and Central City was the economic and social center, Nevadaville was the working class town where many of the district's miners lived. The town thrived into the 1890s but declined dramatically after 1900.
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From public signage:
On June 8, 1917, 168 men died in the Granite Mountain Mine Fire. The loss of life in this fire is metal mining’s greatest disaster.
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“Here they lie sleeping --- cut off ere their time
Givin’ their all to bring ore from the mine.
Shift after shift --- their’s but to toil,
With Buzzy or Lyner, Shovel or moil.
Irish and Serbian --- Cornish and Finn
Lascovich -- Maki -- Opie -- McGinn
Scotchman and Welshman -- Missourian -- Swede
McDonald and Evans -- Swanson and Reid.
Now their last shift is over --- at last deep enough
May the drilling be easy --- the bottom not rough
May the chutes all flow freely --- and no barring down
With things running easy ‘til they get in their round.”
William Burke, 1940
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World War I has begun. To meet the demand for copper, every mine is working to capacity. Friday morning, June 8, 1917, an electric cable being lowered into the mine gets away from workmen, and falls in a tangled coil below the 2400 level.
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TIME LINE OF THE FIRE - JUNE 1917
Friday, June 8
11:30 PM
The night shift of 410 men is at work. Four men go down to inspect the cable. An assistant foreman accidentally ignites the oily, frayed cable with his carbide lamp.
11:45 PM
The fires starts! Thick smoke drives the men from the 2400 level.
Midnight
The 4-deck cages are ready to be lowered to rescue survivors, but the signaling system is burned out.
Terror spreads through the workings and shift bosses try to warn men. Near the 2600 foot station, “the shaft is like a roaring furnace”.
Smelling the smoke, many of the miners escape through adjoining mines.
Gas penetrates to the High Ore, Diamond, and Badger mines.
Underground, J. D. Moore orders eight men to “make for the drift on the 2200 level”. They make a bulkhead and remain entombed for 50 hours.
Saturday, June 9
12:10 AM
Smoke is pouring from the shaft.
12:30 AM
Underground, Manus Duggan leads 29 men to the 2400 level and build a bulkhead. Thirty-eight hours will pass before they are found.
1:00 AM
Rescue attempts begun.
2:00 AM
Survivors tell of many badly burned bodies. “The soot was up to our knees. Several bodies are under the soot. They are all cooked.”
Sunday, June 10
11:00 AM
Underground, Duggan party struggles from the bulkhead to the shaft station and are met by startled rescue workers.
At the surface, the shaft bell rings from the 2400 level. The engineer spreads the alarm. It seems impossible for anyone to be alive at that level. The cage is lowered. Again, a signal -- this time to hoist. Up comes the cage with nine blackened and haggard men inside. Sixteen more miners are alive below!
Monday, June 11
9:00 AM
Underground, Moore’s bulkhead is discovered. Two men are dead, but six are revived and taken to the surface.
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A shift boss, J. D. Moore, saved six men from death. His group was underground for 50 hours. Moore died shortly before they were rescued.
Moore’s letter written in his time book:
FIRST LETTER
6-8-17
Dear Pet -- This may be the last message you will get from me. The gas broke about 11:15 PM. I tried to get all the men out, but the smoke was too strong. I got some of the boys with me in a drift and put in a bulkhead . . . . if anything happens to me you had better sell the house . . . . and go to California and live. You will know your Jim died like a man and his last thought was for his wife that I love better than anyone on Earth . . . We will meet again. Tell mother and the boys goodbye.
With love to my pet and may God take care of you.
Your loving Jim,
James D. Moore
SECOND LETTER
6-9-17 5:00 AM
Dear Pet: Well, we are all waiting for the end . . . . I guess it won’t be long . . . . We take turns rapping on the pipe, so if the rescue crew is around, they will hear us. Well, my dear little wife, try not to worry. I know you will, but trust in God, everything will come out all right. There is a young fellow here, Clarence Marthey. He has a wife and two kiddies. Tell her we done the best we could, but the cards were against us.
Goodby little loving wife
It is now 5:10
THIRD LETTER
6-9-17
7:00 AM
All alive, but air getting bad
Moore
One small piece of candle left.
Think it is all off
FOURTH LETTER
[Written on the cover of the book]
6-9-17
9 AM
“In the dark”
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Manus Duggan’s letters
These notes were found in the pocket of Manus Duggan, who saved the lives of 25 men by building a bulkhead against the gas. These notes were found when his body was recovered.
Sunday morning, 8:45.
Have been here since 12 o’clock Friday night. No gas coming through the bulkhead. Have plenty of water. All in good spirits.
I realize that all the oxygen has just been consumed. Everybody is breathing heavily. If death comes, it will be caused by all the oxygen used from the air in this chamber.
By the time all the men were rounded together Friday night, we were all caught in a trap. I suggested we must build a bulkhead. The gas was everywhere. We built a bulkhead and then a second for safety. We could hear the rock falling and supposed it to be the rock in the 2400 skip chute.
We have rapped on the air pipe continuously since 4 o’clock Saturday morning. No answer. Must be some fire. I realize the hard work ahead of the rescue men. Have not confided my fears to anyone, but have looked and looked for hope only, but if the worst comes, I myself have no fears, but welcome death with open arms, as it is the last act we all must pass through, and as it is but natural, it is God’s will. We should have no objection.”
DUGGAN
To my Dear Wife and Mother:
It takes my heart to be taken from you so suddenly and unexpectedly, but think not of me, for if death comes, it will be in a sleep without suffering.
I ask forgiveness for any suffering or pain I have ever caused. Madge, dear, the place [the Duggan home at 1010 Zarelda Street] is for you and the child.
MANUS
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From The Butte Daily Post on Saturday, 9 June 1917:
33 KNOWN DEAD; 162 MISSING
GRANITE MOUNTAIN DISASTER WORST IN METAL MINING HISTORY
BUTTE STAGGERS UNDER PARALYZING EFFECT OF TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE. EVERY MINING OFFICIAL IN BUTTE AIDING IN THE GHASTLY RESCUE WORK
HELMET MEN BRAVING DEATH EACH MINUTE. LATE TODAY PENETRATED 2200 FOOT LEVEL OF THE MINE; THEY REPORT SCORES OF BODIES IN THE WORKINGS
Mining officials of North Butte and Anaconda Companies, after making every conceivable effort to gain access to the lowest depths of the mine and taking innumerable risks, declare that there is almost no hope that any of the missing men below the 1800 level are alive.
Thirty-three bodies have been recovered, score of others have been sighted by mines rescue teams and helmet men in the gas-filled workings and 162 of the 412 miners who went to work last night are still unaccounted for this afternoon as a result of the greatest disaster in the history of quartz mining, resulting from a fire of accidental origin in Granite Mountain shaft of the North Butte Copper Mining Company.
The entire mines rescue organization of the Butte district, most efficient in the world, coupled with every agency of the city government, is engaged in rescue work, but hope of finding any of the men who were cut off from escape by the smoke and gas which filled the underground workings was practically abandoned at noon, so that there is likelihood of the death toll reaching possibly more than 190.
The great loss of life, heroic efforts to quench the flames and to rescue any who might still be alive produced a condition of confusion at the mine from which it is almost impossible to get an exact summary of the situation, although it is known that the Granite Mountain shaft is caved for some distance, due to the burning of timbers and effects of the big volume of water poured into it to stop the inroads of the flames.
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Nevadaville, Colorado, this mine had to have been a real money make cause it spreads out all over - note the gate at the bottom of this photo and it means your not getting up there but I have had thought's of that. I dive in this area lot's
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.
My American friends Albert and Cheryl pose beside one of Morenci's mining trucks to illustrate its size. They were kind enough to give me a grand tour of the area and we drove up to some of the scenic viewpoints on the mountain tops above the digging pits. The equipment used in such ore-excavating activity is absolutely monstrous; the result of a revolution in technology over the last couple of decades. Albert said that the vehicle depicted here (a Caterpillar truck capable of hauling 350 tons at once) is a mere baby compared to some of the transporters that are used in the mining process. My sense of scale was redefined by such sights and I by the end of the visit I felt about as large as an ant!
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.
In the wari on the bank of river Indrayani this boy Tanu is using a new technique to earn his bread. He throws the magnet and collect the coins from the pond in which the water is highly contaminated because of the pooja.
Four LNG terminals are approved for construction in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, leading to direct criticism from the World Heritage Committee monitoring mission that “the decisions that were taken to proceed with approvals based on offsetting therefore appear to not correspond to an agreed approach within the World Heritage Convention.
Blaenavon Big Pit 2012 Series.
A scrap merchant would be in heaven here with all this metal hanging around. Given the high price of scrap there must be thousands of pounds worth lying around on this part of the site alone.
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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.
The town was one of the most important mining settlements in the area. A Masonic lodge was organized in 1859 from the Kansas Grand Lodge, becoming Nevada Number 36.
Im in an old latex mining tunnel which was used to find latex gems and to dig deep to find the best latex poilsh. only for the super rich rubberdolls can get this latex poilsh as its very rare, and i have to mush of it that i bath, shower and swim in it tee he :)
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Coal.
Mining.
Mining Shovels.
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