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Detail of open-pit uranium mining near Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. Image prepared by SkyTruth (www.skytruth.org).
Working groups meetings in the Takyiman, Kwaebibirem Municipality.
Photo by CIFOR
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De-mining technicians from the UK charity HALO Trust at work early in the morning, on the edges of a paddy field near Thunukkai, northern Sri Lanka.
Around 300,000 people were displaced in the latter stage of stages of the long-running conflict (between the forces of the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE 'Tamil Tiger' movement) in 2008-2009. As of March 2010, more than 200,000 of these displaced people are now in the process of being allowed to return to their homes - having spent many months living in camps.
As part of this process, specialist de-mining agencies such as HALO Trust have clearly marked dangerous areas and are clearing residential and agricultural land of mines and un-exploded ordnance left over from the conflict.
Working in conjunction with the Sri Lankan authorities, this vital work by HALO is being supported with funding provided by UKaid from the Department for International Development. In the first 10 weeks of 2010 alone, HALO has already safely disposed of nearly 16,500 anti-personnel mines in just a few districts in northwestern Sri Lanka– illustrating the scale of the challenge that lies ahead.
To find out more, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/Media-Room/Case-Studies/2010/Landmine-lad...
Image © Russell Watkins / Department for International Development
Action was a little lacking on the two days of our visit to the Gongwusu Mining Railway. It was obvious that the system had seen greater days, with many now abandoned sections and a huge semi-derelict works. Rail traffic was being shared on a day about basis between an SY 2-8-2 and a larger JS 2-8-2.. During an enforced break due to a signalling fault, the latter waits to propel a train of empties under the loading point whilst two curious local lads observe the peculiar westerner hiding in the old PW hut with a camera.
Brent and I assembling our mining rig with two ASUS Radeon R9 290s. Watch the time-lapse of the assembly vimeo.com/84810174
Lego Technic Mining Shovel - TEREX RH400 SBrick version
Built by OneMoreRobot November 2014 - March 2015
Designed by Sheo
Custom engraved tiles by Chrome Block City
Control technology by SBrick
SBrick interface by OneMoreRobot
Colesbukta was originally a whaling station. The 19th century saw coal mining attempts in the bay itself and after the World War II the establishment of the settlement of Colesbukta, a more suitable port for the nearby Russian mine of Grumant. A narrow-gauge railway of about 6km connected the two settlements, clearly Spitsbergen’s longest surface railway, much of which was sheltered in a wooden construction against winter snowdrift, and parts of which are still visible above the coast.
Together with Grumantbyen, Colesbukta closed with the end of coal mining, but until 1988 did serve as a Russian base for exploratory coal drilling.
In Grumantbyen itself, there are just few buildings left, most of the crumbling, and one can only guess where most of the others stood.
(Spitsbergen guide by Andreas Umbreit)
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We hiked from Longyearbyen to the Russian settlement of Barentsburg for three days on foot and enjoyed tundra-like desolated landscape quite heavily; this is what Svalbard is about at the end of summer in the areas free of permanent ice.
Here close to the Colesbukta bay, on the way to a former settlement of Grumantbyen, ruins of a wooden-covered railway increase moods of desolation and silent emptiness of the barren arctic landscape.
This tawny mining bee is photographed on morrello cherry blossom in our garden. Interestyingly, within a few feet, there is an ornamental flowering cherry tree which the tawny mining bee totally ignored. Honey bees were on the ornamental cherry blossom in their dozens, but ignored the morrello cherry blossom, which I thought was strange.
The tawny mining bee, Andrena fulva, is a European species of the sand bee (Andrena) genus. The males are 10–12 mm (0.4–0.5 in) and the females 8–10 mm (0.3–0.4 in) long. It is covered with hair: fox-red on its back and black on its underside.
The tawny mining bee lives in Europe, ranging from the Balkans to southern Scandinavia and the United Kingdom. It lives in light woodlands and dry grasslands, and also in parks and gardens. It is widely distributed but has a low population density. The Tawny mining bee flies from March until May. It prefers to fly in a multitude to different nectar-bearing plants, particularly currants and gooseberries. It lives in a nest in the ground, and occasionally in larger colonies.
It mates in spring, after which the male dies and the female starts to build a nest. Sometimes more than a hundred females build nests in a few square metres but the tawny mining bee normally does not create a colony: each female has her own nest. The tawny mining bee is therefore classified amongst solitary and communal bees.
The nest is a vertical shaft 200–300 mm (8–12 in), with several brood cells branching off it. The female fills these cells with a mixture of nectar and pollen, on which she lays one egg in each cell. The larva hatches within a few days, grows quickly and pupates within a few weeks. The adults emerge in spring after hibernation.
Did you know mining in British Columbia has been around for over 100 years? It provides excellent jobs and economic benefits for many B.C. families and communities. It's why we're celebrating Mining Week this year between May 8-14.
Oaks Colliery disaster commemorative china, 1866, made shortly afterwards.
Wiki says;
The Oaks explosion occurred at the Oaks Colliery, near Stairfoot, Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire on 12 December 1866 killing 383 miners and rescuers. The disaster happened after a series of explosions caused by flammable gases ripped through the workings. It remains the worst colliery or mining disaster in England, and the second worst mining accident in the United Kingdom, after the Welsh Senghenydd Colliery Disaster of 1913.
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Working groups meetings in the Takyiman, Kwaebibirem Municipality.
Photo by CIFOR
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The Northshore Mining Taconite plant at Silver Bay can be viewed from up on a hill in town. Follow the signs. To put a sense of scale to this panorama, the unloading boom of the St. Clair is at the right as noted.
Photographed using a Sony NEX 5N in sweep panorama mode using a Leica Hektor 28mm f/6.3 lens. Tiffen Ultracontrast 3 filter applied in Tiffen DFx.
CRAIGMILLAR ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE TRAIL
4. Mining Sculpture – Jake Harvey 1989.
Commemorates the “Spirit of Community”. Born of centuries of abject poverty, suffering, sorrow and deprivation the strong community spirit sustained mining families. Community spirit spurred the villagers to fight to have their condemned village redeveloped as a modern village preserving its identity and its traditions of sharing and caring for one another.
A figure used in a lecture from JR James at the Department of Town and Regional Planning at The University of Sheffield between 1967 and 1978.
Regardless of the type of raw material, its extraction always comes with an environmental cost. Most mining leaves a lasting and damaging environmental footprint. For example, during the extraction of common metals like copper, lead or zinc from the earth both metal-bearing rock, called ore, and “overburden”, the dirt and rock that covers the ore are removed. At a typical copper mine around 125 tonnes of ore are excavated to produce just one tonne of copper. The amount of earth moved is mind-boggling and mining now strips more of the Earth's surface each year than does natural erosion.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Philippe Rekacewicz, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
The two shafts at Daw Mill Colliery are just over 550m deep. All coal is now brought out through a drift.
This was hung on the tub/wagon to show which miners had filled which tub .
The miners were paid for the amount of stone mined,hence the need to identify the tubs.
Now in a local museum