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Audrey Headframe Park
Jerome, Arizona
Arizona Republic - March 27, 1962
Fifty-Year-Old Vehicles Displayed in Jerome
Why Were Locomotives and Ore Car Left in Mine Tunnel Since 1908?
Two electric locomotives and one ore car were put display on recently were put on Main Street. The locomotives, "motors" to the miners, and the ore car are 36-inch gauge, the same size track used by the narrow gauge railroad that traveled between Jerome Junction and Jerome beginning in 1984 The motors and cars were uncovered recently when the Big Hole Mining Co. opened a southwest drift in the course of its open-pit operation.
Many questions bounce about and come up unanswered. Why weren't the motors and cars were they left scrapped when the smelter was dismantled? Why in the underground workings? Were they cut off in a mine shaft cave-in? Were they forgotten for almost 50 years? [photographers note: this is extremely common, most cumbersome equipment was abandoned underground after mine closure. It was often assembled underground and getting it out was not worth the trouble or scrap value.]
The motors are not completely a puzzle, however. One motor was between 1905 and 1908. Using the factory motor for a sample, the second motor bought was built at the mine.
Locomotives and Ore Cart-250-volt trolley-powered mine locomotive using 36-gauge rail. Top speed 8 MPH
Computer keyboard with green Bitcoin mining button including icon. For attribution please link to www.comparitech.com/ Thanks!
Dr. Joe Douglas examines large scale, prehistoric gypsum mining by Native Americas nearly 2000 years old. The mining extended nearly to the ceiling in this cave passage.
Longs Cave, Mammoth Cave National Park, Edmonson County, KY.
Anglesey Mining appears to be mainly involved in iron ore mining in Canada, however the company also owns the mine at Parys Mountain on Anglesey where perhaps one day exploration for copper ore will recommence. For the time being the headgear stands without ropes.
Andrena nigroaenea - Buffish Mining Bee
The Spetchells
Prudhoe
Northumberland
Olympus TG-6
16th April 2021
Mining Bee with golden haired pollen baskets, but no pollen so far. The pov makes this one look a bit bumbly, but I didn't get another shot. Super to see these and sorry to say I am so looking forward to their parasitic Nomadas!
I know the treatment won't please everyone but to me this image is about the past; the long gone coal mining industry in Whitehaven. Whilst the processing style pre-dates even that it somehow seems appropriate to use this to add to the nostalgic sentiments that influenced the composition.
Black, hardback book entitled: 'ELEMENTS/OF/MINING", by G.J. Young. 4th edition, published in 1946 by McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York.
West Lothian 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 WLDCM1995.096.015.
A delegation of 21 British companies from the Construction Equipment Association travelled to Antofagasta to exhibit their products and services at Exponor Mining Exhibition held in the northern city Antofagasta between 11 and 15 May 2015.
'Modern Practice in Mining, Vol.II - The Sinking of Shafts', by Sir R.A.S. Redmayne, 3rd edition. Published in 1925 by Longmans, Green & Co., London. Red/brown hardback book with title in gilt lettering on spine.
West Lothian 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 WLDCM1995.096.025.
Page showing illustration of a coalface: 'The Mechanised Face'.
West Lothian 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 WLDCM1995.087
A delegation of 21 British companies from the Construction Equipment Association travelled to Antofagasta to exhibit their products and services at Exponor Mining Exhibition held in the northern city Antofagasta between 11 and 15 May 2015.
Massive Trucks, Bulldozers, and Slash-Cutters all help to carve out the Unobtanium mines so that RDA can capture its properties for Earth's benefit.
Large-scale gold mining in Guyana.
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I never knew how this lovely gem grows. The Adirondacks is known for its garnets. The mountain near our rental home has a large garnet mine. Many people use these scrap rocks to build fireplaces. Found these lovely specimens at the Adirondack Museum near Blue Mountain Lake. This is about 9 inches in diameter.
very large piece of equipment warranted large star trails, I thought.
Taken at Pearsonville Junkyard night photography workshop.
The trucks aren't really that small from the cab ;)
I know I haven't been posting many mining pictures lately- even though I pretty much have the run of the minesite I have been so crazy busy it's not even funny. Occasionally they stick me on a shovel for a shift or four though.
The local population does not always have the relevant qualifications for the mining companies’ recruitment needs.
The town of Delamar is well-described in Wikipedia, so I won't go into detail here except to note that the mines in the area were most active from 1895 to 1900 (per Wikipedia). The main things to note is that it was a fairly large town, and it was known for being very hazardous for silicosis, a deadly lung disease, due to the dust generated from gold mining. As is evident from this picture, there remain large piles of tailings (the white portion) which can be hazardous to health due to dust. To get a sense of the size of tailings, look at the satellite view, they're very visible.
(Best viewed as part of Lincoln county set)
A collection of tools used in the mining of marble. On display at the marble mining open air museum, Fantiscritti Quarry, Carrara.
Coal mining on the southern side of Macclesfield Common was concentrated around Blakelow via a number of shafts to the north-east of the current boundary of Macclesfield Golf Club. The Macclesfield Copper Company leased the Blakelow workings in the later eighteenth century and was extracting the coal from the two Holcombe Brook Seams using pillar and stall workings drained by a sough driven from lower down the hill towards Macclesfield town. The seams were thin and sometimes less than 2ft thick, but the quality was good enough to make it worthwhile extracting them.
The mound just above the frosted grass is the spoil heap and site of the third shaft at the colliery. There are sign of the loading bank in the sunken lane behind. The cart road back to the copper works is seen running steeply uphill at the right side and then turning left to pass Higher Blakelow Farm on its way to Lower Blakelow. It must have been hard work for the horses to surmount this bank, but once past Higher Blakelow it was all downhill. I am told that there is a fourth shaft, but this has now disappeared under the adjacent golf course.