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Coal mining in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
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Elizabeth McCourt Tabor (1854 – March 7, 1935), better known as Baby Doe, was the second wife of pioneer Colorado businessman Horace Tabor. Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, she moved to Colorado in the mid-1870s with her first husband, Harvey Doe, whom she divorced for drinking, gambling, frequenting brothels, and being unable to provide a living
.She then moved to Leadville, Colorado, where she met Tabor, a wealthy silver magnate almost twice her age. In 1883 he divorced his first wife, to whom he had been married for 25 years, and he married Baby Doe in Washington, D.C., during his brief stint as a US senator, after which they took up residence in Denver. His divorce and subsequent remarriage to the young and beautiful Baby Doe caused a scandal in 1880s Colorado. Although Tabor was to become one of the wealthiest men in Colorado, supporting his wife in a lavish style, he lost his fortune when the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act caused the Panic of 1893 with widespread bankruptcies in silver producing regions such as Colorado. He died destitute and she returned to Leadville with her two daughters, living out the rest of her life there.
At one time the "best dressed woman in the West",[1] for the final three decades of her life she lived in a shack on the site of the Matchless Mine enduring great poverty, solitude, and repentance. After a snowstorm in March 1935, she was found frozen in her cabin; she was about 81 years old.[1] During her lifetime she became the subject of malicious gossip and scandal, defied Victorian gender values, and gained a "reputation of one of the most beautiful, flamboyant, and alluring women in the mining West".[2] Her story inspired the opera The Ballad of Baby Doe.
This mine once belong to a family but decided to the let Boulder County, Colorado to take it over and is now on the Historical List. This is the area the the auto engine was used to lift and lower stuff down the mine. This was on a tour of the area - we could look in but not get inside the building.
The Vreoci area of Serbia has extensive opencast coal workings as well as deep mines. The brown coal deposits are of great thickness as can be seen in this view across the pit to one of the draglines loading coal onto a conveyor. The size of this machine is evident when compared with the orange coloured excavator.
Kolwezi is like a western movie. Everything and everyone has something to do with mining.
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On May 5, 1859, John H. Gregory discovered a rich deposit of gold in hard rock, the first such discovery in the Rocky Mountain region. Thousands of miners flooded into Gregory Gulch in the next few months in the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. Several mining camps were thrown up near the Gregory Lode, and these camps eventually coalesced into Central City and Black Hawk. The area around the Gregory Lode quickly came to be known as the Richest Square Mile on Earth. By the time the Territory of Colorado was formed on February 28, 1861, Central City was already the largest city in the entire territory, though Denver was made the state capital.
The Central City/Black Hawk area was a basically continuous arc of mining camps and urban development, with a population of more than 3,000 at its height in 1870. Development extended all the way up to Nevadaville, now a ghost town within the Central City limits.
One of 2 machines sold to Bridgetown Plant and then onto G M Mining at Drumshangie OCCS. The machine has since been sold to Hoss Equip in Texas in favour of demag 255
Miners in Mondomo are poisoning the town's water according to the local mayor of Santander de Quilichao.
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.
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Georgetown settled in 1859 after they discovered gold in the area, but the town is mostly known for its silver. So much so, in the late 1800s, the town competed with Central City for the title of Colorado’s most important mining center. In its heyday, Georgetown’s mining would produce over one million dollars’ worth of precious metals annually, some years coming close to the two million marks. Eventually, other Colorado mining towns eclipsed Georgetown, but it will always be known as one of the first booming mining towns in all the West.
The mining drills are controlled from this underground office. The miners can update Facebook, eat fruit and take charge when needed.
Bodie, California Ghost town and National/State Historical Landmark
California Historical Landmark No 341
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.