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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!
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
(141/365) A female Andrena haemorrhoa "Early Mining bee" about to enter her nest burrow in my garden. We have lots of these solitary bees as well as Red Mason bees, Ashy (Grey) Mining bees & Chocolate Mining bees all with associated Nomad "Cuckoo" bees that lay their eggs in the hosts nests HBBBT!
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!
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.
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.
At Glendalough, Co Wicklow there is an old abandoned mining village. This rusty piece of equipment survives and must be there for a couple of hundred years
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.
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.
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)
Eimerkettenbagger im Themenpark "Bergbau und Energie" des Hessischen Braunkohlebergbaumuseums Borken
Im Umfeld von Kassel finden sich verschiedene kleinere Braunkohlevorkommen, die allgemein unter der Bezeichnung Nordhessisches Bergbaurevier zusammengefasst werden. Der Abbau reicht hier am Hohen Meißner östlich von Kassel bis 1578 zurück, die letzte Kohle wurde 2003 in der Zeche Hirschberg bei Großalmerode ebenfalls östlich von Kassel gefördert.
Etwa 30 Kilometer südwestlich von Kassel bildet das Gebiet um die Kleinstadt Borken den wichtigsten Abbaubereich im Nordhessischen Revier. Hier wurde von 1897 bis 1991 in insgesamt 12 Tagebauen und 6 Tiefbauen Braunkohle gewonnen.
Dabei ereignete sich 1988 in der Tiefbaugrube Stolzenbach das letzte schwere deutsche Grubenunglück, bei dem bei einer Kohlenstaubexplosion 51 Bergleute ums Leben kamen. Dies beschleunigte die Bergbaueinstellung im Revier.
Das Hessische Braunkohlebergbaumuseum Borken informiert seit 1992 äußerst informativ und anschaulich mit vier Ausstellungsbereichen über die Bergbaugeschichte.
Im Themenpark "Bergbau und Energie" sind verschiedene Großgeräte ausgestellt, die zum Saisonende im Herbst farbenfroh angestrahlt werden.
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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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© Brian Kerr Photography 2016
It's another rainy, cloudy, winter day in the mountains as Norfolk Southern train T32 prepares to make its way through the mud and depart Middlesboro Mining.
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 group of space miners working on the harsh surface of an asteroid mining it for a very rare and special mineral called Brickonium.
One of the two parallel tunnels, that declined the stream of the Klabava River from the iron ore pit (Ejovice near Plzen, Czech Republic)
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The guy who is throwing stones is a labor in Bholaganj stone mining area. His duty is to collect stones from the boat in shortest possible time. It was very hypnotic to watch the way he was throwing stones, none of those were getting scattered. It was obvious that he was doing it for such a long period of time that his body adopted a rhythmic motion which generated consistent pattern of placing the stones in limited space. You can see I was sitting just infront of him without feeling any risk. If I had to do the job, I would have probably injured people nearby.
Lens: EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Location: Bholaganj, Sylhet, Bangladesh
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Wells, BC, is a historic mining town in British Columbia's Cariboo region, known as the "Gateway to Barkerville" and Bowron Lake Provincial Park, offering rich history, arts, and outdoor adventures like hiking, skiing, and canoeing amidst stunning mountain scenery. Wells is approximately a two hour drive from Williams Lake.