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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.
Working groups meetings in the Takyiman, Kwaebibirem Municipality.
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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.
As far as I know with the search I found very little info on the area. The town just below is Georgetown and named after a guy which was the Silver Queen of the area. This area was some sort of mill - seen a date of 1920 on time but couldn't find that info again. A known fact that a railroad ran up this valley I find it hard to believe on the lack of info for a structure thats some size.
Multiple personalities? It happens.
I don't like this as much as the photo I took yesterday. I plan on doing something different soon. Something different meaning not showing only my bare back and using only blue tones.
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.
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.
Brent and I assembling our mining rig with two ASUS Radeon R9 290s. Watch the time-lapse of the assembly vimeo.com/84810174
Cornwall - St Agnes.
Mining.
Cornwall, along with its neighbouring county of Devon, was an important source of tin for Europe and the Mediterranean throughout ancient times, but began dominating the market during late Roman times in the 3rd century AD with the exhaustion of many Spanish tin mines. Cornwall maintained its importance as a source of tin throughout medieval times and into the modern period.
At their height about 100 mines employed 1000 miners. Mining came to an end in the 1920s and many of these mines are still on view for tourists. United Hills mine produced 86,500 tons of copper ore, 1826–1906; and Wheal Towan 54,610 tons, 1800-31. Lesser quantities of black tin were produced from these mines: West Wheal Kitty 10,070 tons (1881–1915); Wheal Kitty 9,510 tons (1853–1918); Polberro 4,300 tons (1837–95); Penhalls 3,610 tons (1834–96); and Blue Hills 2,120 tons (1858–97). Much of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, a World Heritage Site, is in the parish. Tin production is still worked at the Blue Hills Tin Streams.
Wheal Coates was the site of medieval mining between 1066 and 1540, and it was a modern mining producer from 1802 and into the 20th century. The visible remains of Wheal Coates are the engine houses built in the 1870s to crush ore, run a Calciner, or pump water. The sites, owned by the National Trust, include the Whim Engine House, Towanroath Pumping Engine House and the Calciner. Before that the Jericho valley, where Blue Hills Tin Streams operated, had supported mining operations for centuries. At Chapel Coombe a set of old Cornish stamps has been re-erected by the Trevithick Society.
Looking at a pond in the Te Puna Quarry Park. Because of so much community participation, I never knew what to expect when I turned a corner. The community members personalities shine through in various areas. Here along the pond this is demonstrated by the variety of planting, the frog and ........um.............a penguin.
2 various locomotives used for tin mining located here at Geevor Mine, Cornwall.
A Clayton 1 3/4 Tonne loco at the front, these were powered by a 28 Cell rechargeable Lead Acid battery which was located in the large black box. These loco's pulled wagons capable of carrying up to a tonne of ore each and was able to pull up to 10 wagons at a time. The battery system enabled the loco's to run for up to 8hrs at a time.
The second loco slightly farther back with the small scoop at the front is a Eimco Model 12B Rockershovel (better known as 'Muckers') These loco's were powered by compressed air and were operated by driving them into piles of broken up rock to fill the bucket then a lever would be pulled to raise the bucket and discard all the rock & ore it collected into a wagon that would be pulled just behind it. They averaged loading between 1-2 tonnes of ore a minute