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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.
An image from the old Mayrau coal mining factory - steam mining engine, originally manufactured for ship transport, powered both by steam and compressed air
A very tiny mining bee in the genus Perdita, the most diverse genus of bees in North America. Emerald Valley, El Paso County, Colorado. June 25, 2018.
We have an area of scrub with very sandy soil, and it has been colonised by hundreds of mining bees, each having its own mini-volcano above its hole. Here, one is about to enter its hole.
Variations of mining equipment covering a good many years. The foreground truck is an Indiana well drilling truck. I never heard of one until now.
Nevadaville - a home ? could be since there's a window but it's on a high foundation with mining tailings all around it.
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.
We have seen this mine grow every year. I love the colors. The Canaletes valley has been mined for clay for a long time. Now the clay is used for refractory bricks.
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Wir haben diese Mine schon oft gesehen und jedes Jahr wird sie grösser. Die farbige Erde fasziniert mich. Im Canaletes Tal baut man seit vielen Jahren Tonerde ab. heute wird die Erde für Schamottesteine oder Feuerfestziegel verwendet.
Participants in NASA's 7th annual Robotic Mining Competition tote their robotic excavators to the competition arena on the first day of competitive runs following morning practice rounds. The RMC is set up for college students to design and build a mining robot that can travel over a simulated Martian surface, excavate regolith and deposit as much of it as possible into a bin, all within 10 minutes. Team members may control their bots remotely from a trailer where their only line of sight is via a computer screen, or completely autonomously, with their programming skills put to the test as their robot handles the mission on its own. The competition, which takes place May 16 to 20 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, focuses on technologies necessary to extract consumables such as oxygen and water to support human life and provide methane fuel to spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA/Bill White
The Mining Mech was designed to withstand cave-ins and beast attacks even though it has no weapons. It carries a saber saw, hydra drill, shovel, and heat-ray (for cutting apart particularly stubborn rocks). It always travels with a escort.
This MOC is a ad-on to the LEGO invasion from below theme.
A small-scale mine in Guyana. Harmful chemicals are constantly entering back into the waterways, devastating the biodiversity and negatively impacting the villages downstream from the source.
I would assume a fresh air vent at one time. First time the took the photo it didn't come out so this time I got on the ground holding real tight to my camera then held more in the hole with the flash up.
Participants in NASA's 7th annual Robotic Mining Competition take part in opening ceremonies for the event. The RMC is set up for college students to design and build a mining robot that can travel over a simulated Martian surface, excavate regolith — or Mars dirt — and deposit as much of it as possible into a bin, all within 10 minutes. Team members may control their bots remotely from a trailer where their only line of sight is via a computer screen, or completely autonomously, with their programming skills put to the test as their robot handles the mission on its own. The competition, which takes place May 16 to 20 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, focuses on technologies necessary to extract consumables such as oxygen and water to support human life and provide methane fuel to spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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這座日本人與台灣人所經營的金銅礦場，經歷了一次世界大戰，和二次世界大戰。現在仍然聳立在水湳洞海邊。
在一九八六年正式宣告停止開採。
有很多屋頂，水泥牆慢慢剝落，有些攝影者曾經記錄採礦時期的影像。現在採礦結束之後，留下來的荒涼，與化學藥劑，仍然可以在場內嗅到。
若能透過攝影留下荒涼的面貌，似乎也不錯。
有人來這邊拍攝裸照，有人來搞創意搞藝術。似乎頹敗和裸體有著密切的關係。
剛接觸攝影覺得地景攝影是有點難懂的地方，可是現在看了很多當代攝影，發現地景攝影就像是迪士尼卡通，淺顯易懂。
也許會再一次到礦場拍攝。當接觸越多，攝影思考的方式就更不一樣。從沙龍照，街拍，婚紗，婚禮過程到地景攝影。都是非常有趣的體驗過程。
Exact Mining Services Kenworth T904 parked up at Kulgera Roadhouse hauling a Komatsu Water Truck bound for Roxby Downs.
One of Georgetown’s first mining camps, now abandoned, is accessible from the Railbed Trail. Colorado Central Mill, a protected historic district, is the mining ghost town of Silverdale. During their operation, Silverdale mines were owned and operated by Georgetown inventors. Although roads, rusted iron, and the concrete structure of Colorado Central Mill are all that remain, it’s a historical must visit. Be very careful in this area! It is a protected sight, so discarded metal is scattered throughout the area. This includes nails, scrap sheets of metal, glass, and hard to notice material that you’ll want to avoid stepping on. But it’s also what makes this area so special. It’s as if the miners during that time dropped everything and never returned to the location.
[Exploring the old iron mine in Tuna-Hästberg, Sweden, during Baggbodykarna's Xmas event]
Extracted from a recent collaboration with The Tavistock Edge Players' Halloween production in their Tavistock Museum and here depicting the downside of the historic reality of the local mining industry.
Low-scale, low-tech mining. © ILO
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“Walking to Ashton from Bryn station, a distance of about three-quarters of a mile, I met a miner in his black face for the first time ever. This was the time when the miners would be brought up from the pit, having been down since six in the morning. In December 1899, around 3:30 that was.
Through his brother, it had been arranged that my friend would start work in the mine after our third night there and myself the following Monday. The word used in relation to the work was "Detler" [dataller*]. Our work down the pit began at eight o'clock in the evening and we would be brought up for six the next day. The mine was about 800 yards below the earth's surface. The cage in which eight or a dozen of us went down took two or three minutes to reach the pit bottom, and we would see a flash of fire on the way. This was the fire from the furnace used to ventilate the mine and prevent gas from building up. Fans were used in some mines to drive the fresh air down. Until you became used to it, the descent would almost take your breath away.
It was necessary for each man to carry a lamp, both to light his way whilst down the pit and also to forewarn him of the presence of gas. Each man had his own numbered lamp, and this was kept -and cleaned- in a sort of shop from where it would be handed out in exchange for a metal disc or token bearing the same number. In accepting your lamp through the shop window it was your responsibility to make sure that there was no risk of ignition from the flame inside. This was done by blowing into the corners of the glass. You would not be allowed into the cage without further testing of the lamp. A man stood there whose particular responsibility was to make sure that blowing on it could not disturb the flame. If the lamp was defective you would have to return it to the shop and either get it fixed or exchange it for another. If, in the meanwhile, the mine had started winding coal you would have to go home for the day. Another thing: two men would be standing at the bottom of the shaft, one each side of the cage, and their job was to check your pockets for a pipe or matches (chewing tobacco was allowed) or anything else that might endanger life. Many a miner would go to work in the morning smoking a pipe, but then hide it somewhere along the way and retrieve it on his way home. The things you would be allowed to take down were trousers, a work shirt, clogs and socks, a strap or two, caps, and a pair of pants in your pocket. As you traveled underground you felt the heat increasing and would take off your cap, coat and trousers, and sometimes the shirt too. Wearing a strap around your waist and another on your neck, you might also have with you a stool, canned food, and a container of cold tea to carry to your work place...
Sometimes it would be half an hour's walk from the shaft bottom to the coalface... The miner would burrow into the seam -which would be four or five feet wide- from the bottom up, with props put in place as he progressed. In the carpenter's shop on the surface, wooden pegs with sharpened teeth and containing up to six sticks [of explosive] were prepared to drill into the face, the powder being ignited by a fuse formed of long wire connected to a battery. This enabled the fireman to protect himself in some convenient spot... The work of the dataller was to install replacement pit props, remove dirt, clear the floor and carry out various other tasks to make the place tidy and easier for the miner work in... As a seam became exhausted, the props would be withdrawn and this allowed the floor to come up, making the coal in the adjacent seams easier to mine because of the release of pressure. That's another aspect of the work of the dataller and his assistant. And it was often dangerous work. He had little direct contact with the miners themselves, as they worked in the daytime.
On the first night I was put with a very good-natured Englishman. Supper time was from half-past nine until one in the morning. In the hot places we did not want the encumbrance of clothing. That would be left on the road, and we worked almost naked. The old man was an entertaining conversationalist, and told many stories, but dialogue between us was difficult because of my limited understanding of English and his Lancashire dialect. I understood some things. He asked about Snowdon, and was surprised that I had never been to the summit despite having grown up at the foot of the mountain. We also talked about the Welsh language, and he said it was difficult to understand and sounded to him like babbling. They have one letter, he said, which is very similar to the sound of extinguishing a candle, "Hwff!" The letter "u", he meant. I said we also have many letters that could light fires.
After a few months of this I became quite proficient at the work and familiar with the ways of the mine. Eventually I was put to work on the day-shift, not with a dataller any more but with an actual miner who earned his pay by the number of tons of coal raised from the pit. His focus was getting the coal and my job was to fill to about half a ton containers which carried the coal to where the road broadened out (“y siwnt”), here exchanging the full tubs for empties. Filling and removing about 20 or 24 of those in a day was very hard work. Sometimes the coal face would be 150 or 200 yards from the exchange point. There was not much room for the tub to get through, and sometimes it stuck and I had to use my arms, legs and head to push it uphill so that the ligaments of my body were almost on fire with pain and the first thing I would do when I got home was put my arms under the cold water tap to relieve the sensation... Wooden supports were placed every now and then. Despite this the floor of the tunnel would inevitably bulge upwards, narrowing the way, and this is why the tubs stuck sometimes. The result was that my back was often scraped and bleeding, and if the tub then went suddenly downward I would have to follow with the result that my knees buckled. These things could happen on a daily basis, the heat and sweat making everything worse.
Usually I worked five days a week, so I also had time to wander about a bit and see something of the neighbouring towns and countryside.”
[Translated from the original Welsh in “Atgofion Llyfrwerthwr”, J R Morris, Llyfrfa'r Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, Caernarfon, 1963.]
*“Dataller” (otherwise “dilker”, “dateler”, “day-taler”, “daitler” etc): “general term for workers paid by the day, including repairers” (per Order III (Mining and Quarrying Occupations), Sub-order 1 (In Coal and Shale Mine), Class 044 (Persons Making and Repairing Roads) in “A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921”, Ministry of Labour/HMSO, 1927). The term was perhaps originally “day-tally-er”, meaning a person in receipt of a day “tally” or rate of pay as distinct from one based on performance or output.
The above sketch is from a piece entitled “Welsh Settlers in Lancashire” in The Denbighshire Free Press, 27 April 1901.