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This bee kept coming out of its hole in the ground and walking backwards along a well trodden track. It looked like it was dragging away dirt from its hole, as can be seen in the picture. I don't know what species it is, but I think I saw it too late on in the year for it to be a tawny mining bee. Seen in the Cap Sizun, Brittany.
The circular brass pit check or tally is embossed with"NATIONAL COAL BOARD/ COMRIE" and is stamped with the number "445". There is also a hole for the miner to attach it to a piece of string.
Mine tokens or pit checks were issued to record the number of miners underground. Each miner would take the pit check with his allocated number from the board at the start of his shift and put it back when he returned to the surface. This board gave a quick and straightforward indication of which miners were underground.
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An old woman inside the transit camp of POSCO-India. The transit camp of POSCO, India that has been set-up for the few villagers who are so-called "Pro-POSCO". However, interviews revealed that they have been kept here forcefully since they have nowhere to go and are given Rs.20/- (50 cents) a day per head by the government for all their expenses, including food and other ration. The condition of the camp is abyssmally low. There are about 52 families sharing around 20 toilets and bathrooms. The huts leak when it rains and conditions are extremely unhygienic specially for old people and children.
The Arigna Mining Experience is a unique community inspired initiative which records 400 years of mining history in the area. Coal mining provided much needed work in a region of poor agricultural land. Regular employment was uncommon in the province of Connaught in the 19th and 20th centuries, and it is often said; “There was money in Arigna when there was no money elsewhere”. The industry sustained the community of Arigna down through the centuries and helped them through the horrors of the famine years (1845 to 1852).
The possibility of developing a mining visitor centre in Arigna, Co. Roscommon first emerged when the last coal mines closed in 1990. This development was driven by the local community with the major support from a number of agencies within County Roscommon. Arigna LEADER was the first advocate of the development and secured the necessary finance to initiate the project. Funding followed from the Arigna Enterprise Fund and the Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, which approved a grant of €950,000. This financing brought the project to completion. The development, as it stands, represents a total investment of over €1.5 million, including over €250,000 raised by the local community.
An indication of the number and location of tailings dam failures since 1985.
An analysis of tailings dam failures over the last three decades, indicates that while the overall number of failures has decreased, the number of serious failures has increased (Bowker and Chambers 2016).
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Long wall coal mining under the Waratah Rivulet, that feeds Sydney's water supply, has cracked the river. Peabody coal company is trying to glue the cracks together again with an epoxy substance.
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Finally a long weekend and time to travel, Mountain biking in Moab followed by a nice trip home via the back roads. This wasn't a planned stop. I was heading towards Rico Co. when I came upon a sheriff's car across the highway, I'm informed there is a landslide closing the road and my only option is to turn around and back track to Placerville and then to Ouray. I had planned on dinner in Durango and home to Albuquerque by 9pm my detour added 4 hours to the day. This is on the million dollar highway near dusk.
What is your reaction when hearing that? My first impression was associated with drag net fishing, wreaking havoc to the ecosystems below. And Greenpeace is actively protesting their operation with dangerous intercepts of operations at sea. Is that the whole story then?
What if deep seabed mining of nickel and cobalt was the most environmentally benign alternative on Earth? That would flip my thinking entirely. Well, the alternative is strip mining in the rainforests of Indonesia and Congo, causing massive deforestation and devastation in some of the most valuable ecosystems.
How does that compare to Deep Seabed mining? Well, it’s deep, really deep, in the Abyssal Plain (12-18K ft. down). These Plains are not rare; they cover 50% of the Earth’s surface. And it’s unlike “mining” in the traditional sense. The metallic nodules are sitting on the surface, easily collected by robotic rovers. The smooth plains of silt are stirred up by this collection process, but to no obvious detriment to the main biomass that lives there — bacteria. Ongoing studies may find that they are helped by the agitation, giving more access to their nutrients. And the ecological value of microbe-infused silt is the opposite end of the spectrum from rainforest or coral reef.
The groups seeking permission from the International Seabed Authority to commence operations had to perform numerous studies of their effect on bacteria. Let me digress for a moment to mention how absurd this is. Every 48 hours, 50% of all bacteria on Earth are violently killed by phages. The shear tonnage of the slaughter is staggering: 17 billion tons of bacteria are killed by phage every single day. That’s the baseline. Deep Seabed Mining’s effect on a patch of them, positive or negative, is in the statistical noise by any reasoned analysis. Bacteria adapt quickly to any environment; they should not be the focus of any environmental impact analysis IMHO.
And there’s the rub. Opposition is pushing to try to prevent deep seabed mining by any means possible, reasoned or not. The logical error is the assumption that blocking deep seabed mining will stop mining. That will not happen, ever. Mining will shift to the next lowest cost option (deforesting Indonesia). It’s A versus B, not A versus nothing. Mining will occur, somewhere. How tragic for environmentalists to attack the best option and thereby foster the worst environmental outcomes for humanity. And the harm to the environment is compounded because the minerals in question are used to complete the transition away from oil to EVs. If Greenpeace wanted to promote deforestation and profits for Exxon, they would be hard pressed to find a better way. And, stepping back to consider the ocean's health, the biggest threat to the oceans is climate change and the related acidification that came from our fossil fuel era.
Where have we seen this backfiring behavior before? Nuclear energy. It was nuclear vs coal for the past 60 years, not nuclear vs nothing. Baseload energy will be generated, and environmental fear mongering shut down the best option for the environment back then. Lifelong environmentalist Stewart Brand summarized in his book Whole Earth Discipline: "Coal is now understood to be the long-term systemic horror we once thought nuclear was.” Nuclear was so safe that the nuclear fear mongering did more harm than nuclear energy itself! “Fear of radiation is a far more important health threat than radiation itself.” From the WHO analysis of Chernobyl and its long-term effects, stress from the human dialog on nuclear energy has killed more people than nuclear energy.
Same story with GMO foods, as Brand laments: “The environmental movement has done more harm with its opposition to genetic engineering than with any other thing we have been wrong about. We’ve starved people, hindered science, hurt the natural environment, and denied our own practitioners a crucial tool. We make ourselves look a conspicuously irrational, and we teach that irrationality to the public and to decision makers.”
Must history keep repeating itself with a tragic backfiring of environmental intent? Greenpeace’s position is “no deep sea mining, ever” with no consideration given to the default plan B. Classic A vs nothing thinking. The International Seabed Authority is preparing to process its first applications in 2025. I would hope Greenpeace would pause for a moment of rational consideration to not repeat the mega-mistakes of the past which fostered deforestation and climate change on a massive scale.
• Here is the closest I have seen to an impartial consideration of arguments for an against... with even ocean-obsessed James Cameron calling it a “less wrong” alternative to conventional land-based mining.
• Deep Seabed Mining FAQ by The Metals Company, the group that is farthest along (and it's their robot in photo above)
Audrey Headframe Park
Jerome, Arizona
Largest wooden headframe still standing in Arizona, it was completed in 1918 to haul ore up from the mine. Shaft is 1900 feet deep, concrete lined with cross tunnels every 100 feet to Edith shaft. Edith shaft headframe was completed in 1915 to haul men and supplies. A wooden structure, it was torn down in 1981 and replaced with the steel version you see today, 260' to NW.
Between 1915 and 1938 almost 4 million tons of ore was extracted from the mine, producing 397,000 tons of Copper, 221 tons of silver and 5.5 tons of gold. Ore was brought to the surface then transported by tram and burro train, to the railhead in the valley. Later, ore was taken out underground through the Josephine tunnel, which was 1300 feet down and 2.5 miles long.
Tailings dam failure at the Mount Polley mine in Canada.
The Mount Polley mine, a large, open-pit and underground copper-gold mine in British Columbia, began operation in 1997 and currently processes about 22 000 tonnes of ore per day. The mine’s tailings dam failed in August 2014, releasing approximately 25 million cubic metres of tailings and wastewater into a nearby creek (OAGBC 2016).
Mine operations were suspended for a year following the breach and did not fully recommence until June 2016. The tailings storage facility (surface area approx. 2.4 km2 ) was designed with three embankments – the Main Embankment, the Perimeter Embankment and the South Embankment. These were constructed with a core built from excavated, fine-grained glacial till deposits, supported downstream by filter and rock-fill zones and upstream by a tailings/rock-fill zone. While the mine was in operation, the height of the embankments was increased in nine stages, to an eventual height of 40 metres. Shortly before the collapse, approval was being sought for Stage 10, which would have further increased the dam wall height (IEEIRP 2015).
The Mount Polley dam failure created the largest environmental disaster in Canadian mining history (Schoenberger 2016). The mine is adjacent to Polley Lake and Hazeltine Creek, which flow into Quesnel Lake, one of the world’s deepest glacial lakes and an important commercial, recreational and aboriginal fishery. It supports sockeye salmon, rainbow trout and a diverse range of other fish species. Prior to the dam collapse, the water in the lake had a very low level of particulate material. The collapse resulted in a massive sediment-laden plume scouring Hazeltine Creek and entering the west basin of the lake. Petticrew et al. (2015) monitored the lake for two months post-spill. They found increases in conductivity and temperature and a persistent, high-turbidity layer below the thermocline. While subsequent monitoring indicated that the turbidity reduced to near background level by the beginning of 2015 (SMA 2016), the full effects of the spill may not yet be apparent or easily identifiable.
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The coal mining risk assessment includes an assessment of the Coal Authority Mining Report. The fundamental purposes of the coal mining risk assessment are to identify the risks of coal mining at the development site. The Coal Authority is a legal consultant for any planning application within a High-Risk Zone. Also, a visit to the offices of the Coal Authority to assess mining plans, a review of modern and historical published geological maps, and a review of technical reports/memoirs. For more details, kindly visit- www.earthenvironmental.co.uk/coal-mining-risk-assessment/
Would you do this? Miners, in the US, New Mexico, celebrating their discovery of a pocket of fluorite crystals near Blanchard, NM. And THIS is an easy mine near the surface of the “hillside” of mountains. Attached are two photos I took at the display across from mindatDOTorg, Mineral City venues of Tucson Gem & Mineral Show 2026. This is a photo of their photo placed inside a display case. Link to article about these men and mining there, in comments. See one of their finds in next photo on my stream.
Despite temperatures being slightly above zero degrees Celsius, the heat rising from the bottom of the Lovozero mine (-600m deep) allows succulent plants to grow easily by the main well. 470 miners still work day and night shifts here to extract titanium, niobium and tantalum7 The mine is located in the middle of the tundra in the Murmansk region in Russia.
FR: Malgré des températures à peine au dessus de zéro, près du puits principal, la chaleur provenant du fond de la mine (-600 m) est telle que les plantes grasses poussent facilement. 470 mineurs travaillent encore jour et nuit à l'extraction de titanium, niobium et tantalium dans le site minier de Lovozero (-600 m de profondeur, 30 km de galeries) situé en pleine toundra dans la région de Murmansk. Reportage photographique en Féderation de Russie du 22 au 29 septembre 2006.
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The Coombe is dominated by Blue Hills Tin Mine.
Blue Hills Tin Mine is in fact a selection of old mines that worked until 1780, by which time they had reached a depth beyond the pumping abilities of the day, and were forced to close. The mines re-opened in 1810 with the introduction of steam power, but once again closed in 1897, being unable to compete with the new tin mining fields discovered in Australia and Malaysia.
Coal Mining was quite extensive across Pott Shrigley in the eighteenth century, although the coalfield was small and badly divided by faults. Above Long Lane, which forms the boundary between Adlington and Pott Shrigley, there are a number of abandoned shafts which are easily spotted due to the plantations of trees over and around them. The planting of trees was a stipulation in the leases from the Downes family of Pott Shrigley. When a pit was finished and abandoned it was to be walled or fenced round and trees planted. The fences have long gone but the trees remain.
These pits were working the Bassy Mine (or seam) which averaged about 48ins thickness but was split up by a number of dirt bands. The shaft on the right is situated on the outcrop of the Ribbon MIne which was only about 10ins thick, whilst the Sweet Mine (18ins) outcrops just in front of the camera. Nab Farm can be seen in the centre, whilst to the left is another mound with trees which is probably the site of another shaft. Until the late 1970s these shafts were open, but they have since been capped.
Clothes put out to dry outside one of the huts in the transit camp setup by POSCO-India.
The transit camp of POSCO, India that has been set-up for the few villagers who are so-called "Pro-POSCO". However, interviews revealed that they have been kept here forcefully since they have nowhere to go and are given Rs.20/- (50 cents) a day per head by the government for all their expenses, including food and other ration. The condition of the camp is abyssmally low. There are about 52 families sharing around 20 toilets and bathrooms. The huts leak when it rains and conditions are extremely unhygienic specially for old people and children.
About 1/2-way down this page on an official Mexican gov website promoting investment in Baja area: www.investinbaja.gob.mx/en/industries/mining.
Regarding Projects under Construction, the following are worth mentioning: Transpacific Mining Group, S.A. de C.V., installing iron extraction process equipment in sand dunes, in south San Quintin.
Photo from the first New Year´s trip to the abandoned iron ore mines. The mining ended here in 2008.
Companies use data mining to extract your information and use it to benefit themselves and personalize your experience. Data mining is controversial in terms of protecting your privacy.
Opal Miner at work with an electric jackhammer underground in his mine on the Three Mile Field near Lightning Ridge.
The World Museum of Mining in Butte, MT was founded in 1963 when the close of Butte’s mining heyday was less than two decades away. In the end, Butte experienced a century of hard rock mining and earned the reputation of being home to one of the world’s most productive copper mines of all times. The museum exists to preserve the enduring history of Butte and the legacy of its rich mining and cultural heritage.
The World Museum of Mining is one of the few museums in the world located on an actual mine yard – the Orphan Girl Mine. The "Girl" is the centerpiece of the Museum and is marked by a 100 foot high steel headframe. Once mined to a depth of 3200 feet, she produced silver, lead and zinc from 1875 until 1956.
Strolling through the brick lined streets of Hell Roarin’ Gulch provides insight into the lives of the thousands of immigrants that flocked to Butte for work.
Winding house Pano, showing the two huge pistons used to drive the wire rope drum which raised and lowered the cage containing the men and coal tubs .
A winding engine is a stationary engine used to control a cable, for example to power a mining hoist at a pit head. Electric hoist controllers have replaced proper winding engines in modern mining, but use electric motors that are also traditionally referred to as winding engines.
Winding drum, with depth indicator to the left
The first powered winding engines were stationary steam engines. The demand for winding engines was one factor that drove James Watt to develop his rotative beam engine, with its ability to continuously turn a winding drum, rather than the early reciprocating beam engines that were only useful for working pumps.
They differ from most other stationary steam engines in that, like a steam locomotive, they need to be able to stop frequently and also reverse. This requires more complex valve gear and other controls than are needed on engines used in mills or to drive pumps.
Mobile conveyor system for mining iron ore at the Cloudbreak minesite, Pilbara region, Western Australia.
Mining companies should continuously monitor and respond to the concerns of major groups and changes in the national or local situation.
The date of publication is uncertain. However, the brochure includes images of Erie shovels loading Mack AC Model 5 1/2 ton dump trucks, which were in production between 1916 and 1939. Therefore the brochure was produced some time between 1916 and 1927 when Erie merged with Bucyrus to become Bucyrus-Erie.
The brochure comprehensively covers the Erie GA-2 Gas+Air shovel, powered by a 75 HP Waukesha gasoline engine and having a working weight of 66,500 lbs.
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Machine (along with sister machine) was purchased to replace 2 Cat 5130's which originally belonged to Bridgetown Plant.
The Cat's were parked up for some time and incurred a lot of downtime through burst hoses etc. The 5130's received a lot of negative press due to early hour reliability. Most problems were sorted when the larger B series came out, unfortunately for Cat the damage had already been done by that time and a sour taste had been left.
The 5130's were sold to Hoss Equip in Texas and the Demag's worked steady for many years. The site has since closed and the machines will be sold on.