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I built this MOC for Andromeda's Gates on Eurobricks. It shows a MANTIS mining base in full swing, there's even some little loader trucks carrying loads of Awesomnium. The building has a full interior as well.
The Soudan Underground Mine State Park offers a most execellent tour of a former iron mine half a mile below ground. The mine is largely intact as U.S. Steel left it in 1962. The trip down is via a manxar using the former mine hoist. In the mine, a set of very nice replicas show the various mining operations as they would have been performed.
Photographed using a Sony NEX 5N and the Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 lens wide open.
An image from the old Mayrau coal mining factory - steam mining engine, originally manufactured for ship transport, powered both by steam and compressed air
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 teenager who asked not to be identified from Lightning Ridge, a small opal mining town in western New South Wales, Australia, uses a home-made "bong", fashioned from an orange juice bottle and a length of garden hose, to inhale marijuana. She admits that she takes the drug several times a day to cope with chronic boredom, resulting from leaving school early and being unable to find any employment. Town residents readily acknowledge that illegal marijuana use is rife throughout the community, with many growing their own plants for personal use.
Elinchrom Quadra in small softbox to camera left.
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.
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.
This type of heavy equipment was used in oil sands mining at Syncrude. The last one was retired in 2006.
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
Computer keyboard with orange Bitcoin mining button. For attribution please link to www.comparitech.com/ Thanks!
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.
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 tawny mining bee feeding on apple blossom in the garden. This bee doesn't have pollen baskets and so the pollen collected is simply stuck to the thigh and belly fur.
Part of the former copper miners' township of Hampton near Burra, South Australia. A rare (for Australia) example of an abandoned 19th century township started in 1857 when copper miners wanted to own their own houses not live in 'Company homes'. After 1885 no-one living there made their living from mining, and the last occupants left Hampton in early 1960s.
To see the earlier dugout burrow-like homes of the miners please click here www.flickr.com/photos/aussiegypsy/albums/72157667048142312
Thanks to the local historians and Australian Bi-centennial Authority for signage with this information.
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The Mining Drone can operate on itself. It's programmed by the Rock Raiders. This drone can mine in small caves where no vehicle can reach.
It's equipped with a small chainsaw, a small claw and a radar dish. It has also a detachable crate and carries mining tools for the Rock Raiders.
A massive Hitachi 1900 excavator loads overburden which will be hauled away by a Caterpillar 777R truck. The rich coal seam is fifty feet down and more blasting will take place before being exposed. Prints available.
Former astronaut Bob Cabana, director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, talks with participants of NASA's 7th annual Robotic Mining Competition during the awards ceremony for the event inside the Apollo/Saturn V Center at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. 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/Dimitri Gerondidakis
The Californian Gold Rush of 1849 saw a proliferation in the use of steam power for the extraction of mineral wealth.
Visit www.empireofsteam.blogspot.com for the full story behind this and many other constructions of the Steampunk Age.