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Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Limburg, Heerlen, Dutch Mining Museum, Cap lamps (cut from B&T)
Rechargeable cap lamps at the Dutch Mining museum in Heerlen. They were mounted on the hard hats (caps) of the miners to enable them to see what they are doing in the suboptimal lit mines, The batteries ae probably of the NiCad type (but I can't rule out that they're traditional lead-acid ones).
The museum uses the shaft building of the decommissioned Oranje-Nassau 1 mine (once commonly known as ON1). I started up in 1899 and decommissioned in 1974. It's history is here.
The profitable mining in Zuid Limburg enabled Holland to build up the welfare state. But the region paid the price. Deep mining proved to be dangerous and sometimes even deadly. Many miners suffered from silicosis and other miner's diseases. And there were geological consequences such as the rising and falling of the ground of certain parts of the region and local earthquakes. And the highly polluted (asbestos, drilling emulsion) water from the decommissioned mines is rising, which will eventually reach the groundwater table. Check out this (sorry only Dutch).
From the early sixties onwards, the Dutch coal industry withered away and eventually was terminated due to the import of cheap American coal and the start of the exploitation of the Dutch natural gas fields in Groningen.
Another factor in this process was the big conversion from coal to oil as an energy source. A spectacular example is the conversion in the shipping industry from WW1 onwards. There were large cost savings in this conversion -among others on labour costs. And it sped up the world economy.
The mine closure caused severe social and economic problems in the region.
About the production of gas in Holland: every city / large municipality had its coal-gas factory (coal to gas conversion). Due to the Dutch natural gas availability, these factories with their typical large gasometers could be phased out – from 1963 to 1972, the Dutch Gasunie installed a nationwide underground natural gas transport network. This led to yet another conversion process. This time in the Dutch households. The burners in the water heaters, stoves and furnaces had to be changed ‘cause of the higher energy content (caloric value) of natural gas ánd the high pressure of the Gasunie network.
This is number 1207 of Minimalism / explicit Graphism
Literally a small mining tank with laser capable to cut chunks of rock. Usually it's controlled by driver/operator sitting inside armored cabin, but it can function unmanned (just let's pretend that "WALL" is a good name for a company, ok?).
Another build inspired by Hibernia and mining equipment, idea for a tracked mining vehicle with laser gun on it came from this MOC by Cap . I have a feeling that this machine does not fit into the criteria of the models typical for Febrovery, but I really like to construct more purposefully-built wheeled and tracked vehicles than usual rovers. And gosh, making these tracks in Studio is really annoying.....
Portmán es una localidad española del municipio de La Unión,1 perteneciente a la Región de Murcia. Está situada a los pies de la sierra minera de Cartagena-La Unión en una bahía bañada por el mar Mediterráneo.
Portmán is a Spanish town in the municipality of La Unión,1 belonging to the Region of Murcia. It is located at the foot of the Cartagena-La Unión mining mountain range in a bay bathed by the Mediterranean Sea.
Some Slaves forced to mine for gold in the harsh heats of distant (country name here) Slavery can be harsh... And in this heat, rebellion is often frowned upon :P
A newly-emerged female Buffish Mining Bee (Andrena nigroaenea) in our Staffordshire garden.
There's been lots of solitary bee activity recently, but a significant fall of snow last night will have slowed them down a bit!
A Northshore Mining work train arrived to reclaim some ties at MP 5 just before the arrival of the 1100 loads and the return of the tailings train.
The scars of an old mining prospect are visible at the mouth of Cottonwood Canyon in The Bighorn Mountains, The prospect was in the Permian Phosphoria Formation but I don't know for what they were looking.
Colletes hederae in Somerset. The colony I discovered last year, the first I'm aware of on my home patch, is active again this year with dozens of bees already. There aren't many burrows yet, probably a combination of being early in their season, plus the recent weather has been very wet. In today's sunshine, most of the females seemed to be spending their time looking for the perfect spot to start digging but a few are ahead of the game.
And more from the garden during the lockdown period. We are lucky to have a small garden which we enjoy tremendously at the moment. While looking for more motifs for new photos I noticed a few bees flying low over the grass and they turned out to be mining bees looking for a spot to dig a hole in the ground. Those solitary bees will then lay one single egg and add pollen for the larvae. Not easy to photograph as they were obviously not standing still for my camera ;-)
Quite happy to see that my standard walk-around tamron lens is good enough to image the little single eyes the bees have in the middle of their head!
Bergbauwagen aus der Ingurtosu-Mine, Sardinien.
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Mining wagon from the Ingurtosu mine, Sardinia
What left of the family still lives in the farm house but the barn rots because the fields are now replaced with housing and a new highway.Eventually the family will be gone and it will all be razed for new housing. This is the way of things. Urban sprawl.
An old mining cabin I found while exploring. I used Topaz Texture Effects 2 for the artistic effects. #abandoned #rurex
A Nice Early Departure On The L546 (Squamish Turn) Yielded A Nice Daylight View Here At Britannia Beach With The Mine Museum Looming Overhead. CN 8302 A EMD SD75IACC And CN 3398 A GE AC44C6M Roll Under Beautiful Low Hanging Clouds.
The German Mining Museum, founded in Bochum in 1930, is the largest mining museum in the world and, on the other hand, is a research institute for georesources and mining and mining archives. The museum has a demonstration mine with a rope simulator. The symbol of the museum, which can be seen from afar, the 71 m high winding tower can be climbed.
If you have an interest in past days and the gold mining in the area, across the Kawarau River gorge there are still remnants of the gold digger days. Some of these can be viewed at the Goldfields Mining Centre.
150253 passes the site of the former Lewis Merthyr colliery in the Rhondda Valley with a Treherbert bound Transport for Wales service back in 2019. Another shot that can no loinger be replicated today. 2T14 10:06 Cardiff Central to Treherbert.
Steam from fresh pellets and the plant kilns envelopes the thousand footer Stewart J. Cort at Northshore Mining in Silver Bay. Shipping on Lake Superior will end around January 15 when the Soo Lock close for the winter (reopening March 25). The temperature when I grabbed this was mild, around 2 degrees.
Wheal Owles, Cornwall.
Work began on extracting tin and minerals at Wheal Owles in the 1850s. At its height it had 29 miles of levels and 11 steam engines at the site, a mile from St Just.
In an event which could have stepped straight from the pages of a novel, tragedy struck in January 1893 when flood water broke through the underground workings trapping one boy and 19 men. Their bodies were never recovered and the mine remained closed from that day. There is a plaque recalling their names on the wall of the engine house.
(extract from 'We Are Cornwall' website)
Prosperous Lead Mine and Smelt Mill lies on the southern side of Ashfold Gill to the north-west of Pateley Bridge in North Yorkshire.
Another shot of the mine close to Dutch Settlement, Nova Scotia. Once again so pleased that taking the image through a wire fence doesn't show.
DFS invites you to put on your helmet and grab your pick to start this new mining adventure.
These new items are available in the store, you can't miss this fun experience!
* DFS Mine - Ores
* DFS Mine Tool Cart
* DFS Anvil
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A Mining Landscape
Another image from Sunday morning a snow covered mining landscape at Nenthead near Alston.
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Camera - Sony A7RII
Lens - Sony FE16-35mm f4
Focal Length 17mm
Fstop - f8
Exposure Time - 1/50 second
ISOspeed - ISO100
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