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The Anson Pit at Poynton was one of the main working shafts at the colliery and regularly raised 80,000 tons of coal a year in the late nineteenth century. The pit was a very old working, dating from the early nineteenth century, and a significant remodelling was undertaken in the 1860s to allow increased production. The works undertaken included widening the shaft at the half-way point to allow a pass-by for two cage operation, a more powerful winding engine, extensive new sidings, screens and loading area. The pit closed in 1926 but the railway loading yard under the screens survives in industrial use. This datestone has recently emerged from under the ivy. It commemorates the remodelling of the pit and is much cruder than the normal high quality datestones erected by Lord Vernon at his collieries.
part of what is now a huge storage warehouse in park city, utah, this tower has been perched on this moutainside for over 100 years. though not in use anymore, this rusting tower is a beautiful nod to the mining days of the rocky mountains.
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The National Mining Museum Scotland was created in 1984, to preserve the physical surface remains of Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange, Midlothian, Scotland. The colliery, sunk by the Lothian Coal Company in 1890, came into production in 1894. It was nationalised in 1947 with the formation of the National Coal Board, and had closed in 1981.
The buildings were recognised as being of outstanding interest as they formed an almost complete survival of a major Victorian colliery, with later additions. Some demolition, such as the 1950s canteen and medical centre, has occurred but the vast bulk of the structures stand. The winding engine is by Grant, Ritchie and Company and the colliery headstocks were built by Arrols of Glasgow. From 1998 onwards several of the main structures were stabilised and new visitor facilities opened. [Wikipedia]
Not really mine, but an early birthday present for Jools, a 30th anniversary edition of Soul Mining. Both discs on 180gm vinyl, and sounding superb, includes artwork and a bonus 12" of remixes which sound stunning, which also does not feature the bloody plinky plonk of Jools bloody Holland.
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This lavish boxset celebrates the 30th anniversary of The Theās major label debut album, Soul Mining, originally released in October, 1983. The re-packed and expanded version contains an authentic reproduction of the album, with newly remastered audio from the original master tapes (overseen at Abbey Road by Matt Johnson), as well as an extra 12ā gatefold vinyl of alternative versions and remixes..
The remastered audio has also been dubbed from new vinyl test pressings recorded from Matt Johnsonās original 1982 Thorens TD-147 gramophone player using patent āDubbed-From-Discā technology, obtainable via a download code contained within the boxset. The boxset also includes a unique ānews-posterā containing extensive notes written by Matt Johnson that detail the making of the album.
Disc: 1
1. I've Been Waitin' For Tomorrow (All Of My Life)
2. This Is The Day
3. The Sinking Feeling
4. Uncertain Smile
Disc: 2
1. The Twilight Hour
2. Soul Mining
3. Giant
Disc: 3
1. Uncertain Smile
2. Perfect
Disc: 4
1. This Is The Day
2. Fruit of the Heart
3. Perfect
4. I've Been Waitin' For Tomorrow (All Of My Life)
www.amazon.co.uk/Mining-Anniversary-Deluxe-Edition-Dubbed...
The Yuba Goldfields is a valley of 10,000 acres (40 km2) on both sides of the Yuba River in Yuba County, California, located northeast of Marysville. The goldfields are noted for their otherworldly appearance, filled with oddly shaped gravel mountains, ravines, streams and turquoise-colored pools of water. From the air, the goldfields are said to resemble intestines.
They were created during the California Gold Rush. The first Yuba-area miners panned for gold in stream beds in the valley but within a decade large-scale industrial processes replaced solitary prospectors. Mining companies moved from the valley floor into the Sierra Nevada foothills, where miners blasted gravel hillsides with high-pressure jets of waterāa process called hydraulic mining.
One hundred and fifty years of gold mining and also gravel mining have given the Goldfields the unique and completely unnatural landscape that exists today.
This is a ship used to defend mining ships from pirate attacks and chase away unauthorized miner vessels around asteroid belts.
Further adventures inside the washery at the Zenica coal mine. Lots of belt driven shakers and riveted tanks. It was noisy but it was well worth the effort to get in there.
I found this little mining bee (Andrena sp. - Andrena praecox? or Andrena bicolor?) in my backyard yesterday.
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after driving for almost 10 hours we finally catch up with this loaded ore train headed towards the ore docks back in 2001
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines by Winona LaDuke
Updated about a week ago
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines Winona LaDuke
Manoominike Giizis, it is the Wild Rice Making Moon. As the wild rice ripens in Northern Minnesota, a huge battle ground of tribal communities, landowners, the state of Minnesota and the largest pipeline company in the world begins. It is a clash of cultures, and pits money and oil against Native people and wild rice. In the next two weeks, public hearings, a wild rice harvest, a traditional spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will make their way along the proposed route. ā The hearings will move the direction of the oil ,or where it is proposed to run, the horse ride and canoe journey will move against the current of the oil, in a third year of a spiritual journey for the wild rice and future generations.ā Frank Bibeau , attorney for Honor the Earth explains . Honor the Earthās Love Water not Oil campaign continues, this hear with the third annual Spiritual horse ride on August 25, including Anishinaabe tribal members as well as Lakota leaders from the Pine Ridge reservation who have been opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. They will be joined by other non Native allies on horse back and on canoe.
The Enbridge Company is proposing to move l. 4 million barrels of new oil across the best wild rice lakes in the world, in a new set of proposals involving up to 760,000 barrels per day of tar sands oil and 640,000 barrels per day of fracked oil from the Bakken fields.
This past week, the first hearing on the proposals was held in the Rice Lake community, one of the two most impacted native communities by the proposed Line 3 and Sandpiper routes. Forty or more tribal members testified, reaffirming what the state and pipeline company already know: The Ojibwe stand opposed to any oil pipelines crossing the reservation, or the l855 treaty area, and this position is supported by all the tribes in Minnesota, the Great Lakes and the National Congress of American Indians. The fact is, that every proposal to move tar sands or fracked oil has to run through Native people, and in Minnesota, this will be a problem.
At the same time as the Enbridge drama unfolds, the l855 Treaty Authority of the Ojibwe, notified Minnesota Governor Dayton of the tribal wild rice harvest in the 1855 treaty territory, informing him that tribal members would continue to harvest without any permits from the state. Archie LaRose, Chair of the Treaty Authority, pointed out the stateās mismanagement of the territory, and the most recent crash of the Mille Lacs walleye fishery, state proposals to gut sulfate standards, limit protection of wild rice lakes , and the PUC process on the four pipelines proposing to cross northern Minnesota and Ojibwe or Anishinaabe reservations and treaty territories. The state of Minnesota has promised to arrest Ojibwes for harvesting wild rice.
ā We find it ironic that the state of Minnesota would arrest and confiscate canoes and wild rice from Ojibwe people , yet refuses to protect this very rice from the pollutants of the mining and oil industry,ā Frank Bibeau attorney for Honor the Earth and the l855 Treaty Commission told reporters. Tribal governments have been very frustrated with the state process, as the state PUC scrambles with four pipeline proposals and one proposal to abandon an aging line with some āstructural anomaliesā. A structural anomaly is what caused the Kalamazoo spill of 2010, and at least two more 50 year old lines (like the Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinaw) continue to concern most local residents. ā¦Enbridge has gathered extensive integrity data on Line 3 throughout its years of operation. The integrity data shows a high number of integrity anomalies ā specifically, corrosion and long seam cracking. Because of its integrity anomalies, Line 3 has experienced a number of failures during its more than 50-year history ( from Enbridge briefing notes).
After requesting government to government discussions, and being pushed aside by the state agency, Honor the Earth Executive Director Winona LaDuke, pointed out, ā This is 2015 not l889. Native people need to be treated as first class citizens not third class enemy combatents. āIn response to the state not releasing critical information, tribal governments held their own environmental impact hearings, with findings to be released by the Mille Lacs band in the upcoming month.
In the meantime, a spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will be underway beginning in Rice Lake refuge on August 25, the same time as many environmental groups join together to protest at Department of State Representative John Kerryās house, in particular, focused on one of these pipelines, the 880,000 barrels per day, Enbridge Alberta Clipper, which needs State Department action. The federal lawsuit on this case, White Earth Band of Ojibwe versus John Kerry will be heard in Federal Court in Minneapolis on September l0.
āThe fact is that if a Canadian corporation can successfully secure eminent domain rights over the land of American farmers, we have a constitutional problem,ā Bibeau said referring to the Enbridge Sandpiper case, and North Dakota farmer James Botsfordās attempt to avert the pipeline from his land. In terms of the Alberta Clipper case, the Tribe and a number of environmental organizations point out that the Enbridge Company is proceeding with moving oil, without an environmental impact statement.
The problem is large in scope , as Honor the Earthās LaDuke testified at the hearing in Rice Lake, āThe Enbridge Company ā¦ has wished to only account for the carbon used to power the transportation of the oil through the pipelines it is providing for the extreme extraction process.ā¦ We reject this suggestion as self serving and inaccurate. Responsibility for the total carbon footprintā¦ would be required to be considered. It is as if we are saying that, those who operated the railroads to the gas chambers were not complicit in the Jewish Holocaust, but instead, only the SS which administered the gas, would be liable. That is preposterous. These pipelines constitute the railroad to the gas chambers of climate changeā¦ā Conservative estimates of carbon emissions from Line 3 and the Sandpiper, are calculated at 125,737,313 metric tons annually in the āwell to wheelsā impact. As Ojibwe wild ricer Dennis Jackson waited patiently for his time to testify at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing in Rice Lake, he listened to a lot of testimony and presentations. Every month, the story seems to get bigger, and the process more confusing.
Dennis was the 25th or so person to testify. He walked up to the front of the room with a cell phone and scrolled to a picture. The picture was Dennisā 2013 harvest of 700 pounds of wild rice or manoomin from Rice Lake in his canoe. A canoe full of rice. That is a snapshot of this story, and the story of the wild rice. As Honor the Earth explained in testimony to the PUC, āā¦Let us be clear, this is the only place in the world where there are Anishinaabeg and this is the only place in the world where there is wild rice. We understand that, and fully intend to protect both ...ā
Photos by littleredfeatherdesign.com for "Love Water Not Oil," tour. www.honorearth.org
No permission granted to use photos without permission, and must be credited to photographer and Honor the Earth.
Nation : Canada
Pavilion Name : Western Provinces Pavilion
Subject : Pavilion (National)
Island : Ile Notre Dame
Description : Mining equipment laying on stone.
Photographer's Notes : mining
General Description:
The daring roof structure of the Western Provinces Pavilion was designed to symbolize the transition from the horizontal planes of the Prairie Provinces (Manitoba and Saskatchewan) to the tall mountain regions of British Columbia and Alberta. Live trees projected from the centre of the roof furthering the landscape inspired visitors entering through a corridor leading to a theatre with a show about the people of the West. The procession followed to a mine shaft cage, a simulated descent and finally to a mine tunnel exhibit. The ten following exhibits continued along and were devoted to Western Canadian forests, mines, fishing, petroleum, agriculture electricity and people.
Tongo, Sierra Leone ā In the diamond field-rich district of Kenema in the southeast of the country, a handful of twenty-something men with soiled and shredded rags for t-shirts bend over at the waist, and toil knee-deep in a caramel pool of mud. Lined along the waters' edge, situated an arms-length apart from one another, they splash circular sieves into the water then shake the contents from side to side with a vigorous rhythm in hopes of finding a diamond. This is a small-scale diamond mining operation called alluvial mining. Working in small cadres on mines with crude tools is a popular profession among men here in the Kenema District, but the pay is poor and the rewards seen are seldom or infrequent, at best. The workers only get paid when the diamonds are found. The middlemen who buy the stones from the miners prosper the most. Rebel forces from Liberia and Sierra Leone used diamonds to fund their wars -- gems for guns -- between 1990-2001. This trade led to the reputation of the Blood Diamond. Diamonds now must be certified by the government of Sierra Leone.
Photo by Geoff Bugbee, courtesy of Heifer International
Early spring and the Mining bees are about. Sound is a Blackbird singing. Filmed using the Sony RX10iii camera fitted with a +2 dioptre lens for close-up.
Golden Eagle Mining Limited (GEE) is a highly motivated mineral exploration and development company focused on generating quality gold assets within proven gold producing districts. GEE has strategically expanded its highly prospective ground position, now totalling 62 prospecting, exploration licenses and mining tenements covering a staggering 460 square kilometres within a 60 kilometre radius of Kalgoorlie, one of the worldās most prolific gold districts.
'Compressed Air in Mining and Industry', compiled and edited by Sydney H. North. Published in 1951 by Pitman & Sons Ltd., London. Hardback book with green dust jacket and cream print.
West Lothian Museums. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/tourism/museumsgalleries/ums/information
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The Candelaria Mine lies southwest of Copiapo in the arid Atacama region of Chile.
Photo: Kaworu Koneru
Red enamel lapel badge showing design in gold of two thistles, two ears of corn and a piece of mining machinery. "NUM" (National Union of Miners) printed in gold at top and "SCEBTA" (the Scottish Colliery Enginemen, Boilermen and Tradesmen's Association) at bottom. Triangular shape, gold coloured metal.
West Lothian Council Museums Service. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/tourism/museumsgalleries/ums/information.
Copyright: West Lothian Council Museums Service.
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