View allAll Photos Tagged mining
2.Sluicing: A sluice box is more commonly used by small scale mining companies. In this process, a sluice box is used to haul out gold from various deposits in currents. It is basically a man-made channel with riffles at the bottom, these riffles act as a dead zone which makes the gold drop from its state of suspension. A current then carries the denser materials to one direction as the rest of the tailing is left behind.
Brent and I assembling our mining rig with two ASUS Radeon R9 290s. Watch the time-lapse of the assembly vimeo.com/84810174
This barometer was used by a mine surveyor. Within the case is a simple glass tube, containing mercury, inverted into a pot of the same metal. The latter is separated from the atmosphere by a membrane. The difference in pressure from a known datum point, e.g., the top of a pit shaft, and an underground site can readily be converted to depth.
This common mercury barometer is mounted in a polished wood case, exposing only the upper portion of the tube in a window, where a reading might be taken from the scale and vernier. A thermometer is mounted within the window as temperature variations affect the calculation required. This instrument was made by J WHITE of GLASGOW.
Nineteenth century legislation enforced the production of accurately surveyed plans of underground working in Britain's collieries. The acts were prompted by safety and planning concerns and the surveyor became a key figure in colliery workforces.
Accession number - 2000.443.1
Three mining barges are busily cutting up ice asteroid, while a destroyer class ship (a gallentean Catalyst) is standing guard against NPC pirate ships which pop up once in a while in this asteroid belt.
Ice refining products are used in operating POS, Player Owned Structures/Starbases, and to move Capital class ships equipped with jump drive, such as dreadnoughts, carriers, motherships and titans. At the time of that screenshot, though, no capital ships were available in game yet.
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
"Hearing everybody on the streets talking about the six thousand dollar ore of the Blue Bird, your correspondent proceeded at once to visit this lode," read an article in the Caribou Post on July 8, 1871. "The ore contains blue and green carbonates of copper, of the most brilliant hues, the lode taking its name from the blue."
BE 1570W " Bigfoot" This 1570W has a longer boom than a lot of other 1570s. It is 325 ft., I believe.
Mining companies pay national and local taxes, but because the local population does not see the benefits, companies have started making direct contributions to local communities.
Brent and I assembling our mining rig with two ASUS Radeon R9 290s. Watch the time-lapse of the assembly vimeo.com/84810174
Mining companies often lack local field offices with the capacity to answer questions from local residents and to make operational decisions.
Nickel has been mined in New Caledonia since 1864, the longest history of mining in the Pacific islands. In varying concentration, nickel layers cover about one third of the area of Grande Terre.
Photo from the first New Year´s trip to the abandoned iron ore mines. The mining ended here in 2008.
Silver coloured metal and brass safety or "davy" lamp. Plate on front reads"The Protector Lamp and Lighting Co. Ltd / Eccles, Manchester. / Type 6 / approved under / lighting schedule B / No.2 /Maker". Miners brass check or tally stamped with the number 2 is attached to the handle of lamp by a twist of wire. Slight corrosion damage to tally and base. Brass coloured label on front is worn, possibly by polishing.
West Lothian Local Museums. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/tourism/museumsgalleries/ums/information
If you would like more information about this object, please contact: museums@westlothian.gov.uk, quoting WLCMS2008.111.
Mining companies often speak and present data in language that is too technical for the local population.
Title: Mining Engineering Department, Mine Surveying Squad
Date: 1903
Description: Researchers and a professor showcasing surveying equipment for Iowa State College's Department of Mining Engineering, Summer Camp, Boone, Iowa, 1903.
ID: 11-04-F.ChemEng.836-01-01
This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under U.S. copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The organization that has made this item available believes that the item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. (CC Public Domain 1.0 and RightsStatements.org NoC-US 1.0). The original object is available at the Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives (archives@iastate.edu). To request higher resolution reproductions of the original visit our website.
Last night our town hosted a meeting to take input from the community
about issuing a mining permit for beryllium. A company called BE
Resources wishes to dig some exploratory bore holes in our nearby
farming community of Monticello. I was surprised how prepared the
mining company was. They totally dominated the first 2+ hours with
hired experts from AMEC. AMEC sells expertise about environmental
issues, but really appears to be a "yes man" for big business to do
whatever they like. It was rather disconcerting to hear geologists,
hydrologists and so many other scientists refer to mining beryllium as
being a zero risk venture.
Coal Miner's Safety Helmet (black) with bracket for affixing lamp to front.This black compressed paper miner's helmet has an unusual ventilated top riveted to the body of the helmet with leather peak and edging.
West Lothian Local Museums. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/tourism/museumsgalleries/ums/information
If you would like more information about this object, please contact: museums@westlothian.gov.uk, quoting WLCMS2008.115.001
Plaque on the end wall of the former baths at Gibfield Colliery. Coal owners Fletcher Burrows & Co Ltd erected the first purpose built colliery bath house in Britain at Gibfield Colliery in 1913 after a trial of an adapted building at their Howe Bridge Colliery. The colliery closed in 1963 but the building survives as a car repair and maintenance garage.
Looking from the lookout at Fort Bourke Hill which stands to the east of the Cobar Township and rising to 300 metres above sea level, it affords the visitor a wonderful vista of the Cobar landscape. You can see the open pit and entrance to the underground mine of Peak Gold Mines from a well constructed viewing platform.
Scavenger Challange- 4. Alphabet Soup: the subject is a noun beginning with "mi..."
The city of Butte is sprinkled with tangible reminders of the city's boom years as a copper mining center. This is an old mine head frame and hoist building.
Mining is an important economic sector at the national level, and protests that result in suspensions or delays of significant mining projects affect the whole country.