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original polaroid taken 19 december 2025
dslr scan taken 21 december 2025 for 365
polaroid 600se
mamiya 75mm/5.6
polaroid 669
expired 11/1999
| mining |
in the mountain coal -
mining the seam -
a layer smirched
in the taint of the past.
fossilized and ignored
left to harden.
do you follow the road
around the hillside
leaving the night to mull and loam,
alone?
or do you unearth it
piece by piece
disinterring and igniting,
useful in its incineration,
to fuel your fire?
GHH mining machine underground shovel, when they were introduced in the Monteponi mine, helped to make the work lighter and faster. He wouldn't mind seeing it displayed in a protected area and not exposed to the elements. A machine created to work indoors that ends its "career" outdoors. The most interesting part are the reinforcements made by hand welding along the entire profile of the blade of the shovel. Although not a certainly functional artistic work; this is proof of the mastery and skills that the staff had acquired in working in a mine like this.
Pala da sottosuolo GHH mining machine, quando vennero introdotte nella miniera di Monteponi aiutarono a rendere il lavoro più leggero e veloce. Non sabbe male vederla esposta in una zona protetta e non esposta alle intemperie. Una macchina che nasce per lavorare al chiuso che finisce al sua "carriera" all'aria aperta. La parte più interessante sono i rinforzi realizzati con saldatura a mano lungo tutto il profilo della lama della pala. Seppure non un lavoro artistico sicuramente funzionale; questo a riprova della maestria e delle competenze che il personale aveva acquisito nel lavorare in una miniera come questa.
First time I've noticed one of these. Ashy Mining Bee feeds from wild flowers left to grow in the garden.
A Mining Landscape
Another image from Sunday morning a snow covered mining landscape at Nenthead near Alston.
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Camera - Sony A7RII
Lens - Sony FE16-35mm f4
Focal Length 17mm
Fstop - f8
Exposure Time - 1/50 second
ISOspeed - ISO100
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A sight to see: big, strong, and bold woodpecker. After feeding high up in the trees, she came down to check out a tree that was almost fallen. When the large piece of bark fell off, she looked pretty pleased with herself :)
I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of her beak...
Pileated Woodpecker / Dzięcioł smugoszyi (Dryocopus pileatus)
(95/365) Newly emerged male hanging around a sandy bank where they breed every year in Island Wood. Andrena cineraria is one of the most distinctive of all the spring flying solitary bee species over much of Britain & Ireland, and over recent years has been enjoying a marked increase in abundance in parts of its range. We noticed them in our garden for the first time last year.
They have a single flight period each year & are on the wing from early April until early June; the males emerging well before the females. Peak activity coincides with the flowering periods of fruit trees such as Pear, Cherry and Apple. Happy Wing Wednesday!
Wells, BC, is a historic mining town in British Columbia's Cariboo region, known as the "Gateway to Barkerville" and Bowron Lake Provincial Park, offering rich history, arts, and outdoor adventures like hiking, skiing, and canoeing amidst stunning mountain scenery. Wells is approximately a two hour drive from Williams Lake.
One of the two parallel tunnels, that declined the stream of the Klabava River from the iron ore pit (Ejovice near Plzen, Czech Republic)
A Gwynne's mining-bee (Andrena bicolor) which has gotten the blue pollen of a Siberian Squill (Scilla siberica) all over its fur.
Minister Stein 2/4/7, Schacht 4 Dortmund-Eving Juni 1989.
1856 gegründet.
Seit 04. April 1871 Minister Stein.
1873/74 Fusion der Zechen Minister Stein und Zeche Fürst Hardenberg zu "Vereinigte Stein und Hardenberg".
Eigner Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG (GBAG).
1891 Teufbeginn Schacht 4.
1926 Errichtung des Hammerkopfturms über Schacht 4 mit 2 elektrischen Turmfördermaschinen.
1941 mit einer Jahresförderung von 3,67 Millionen Tonnen und 6820 Beschäftigten die größte Zeche des Ruhreviers.
1945 Trennung der Zechen Minister Stein und Fürst Hardenberg.
1953 neuer Eigner Dortmunder Bergbau AG.
1958 wieder Anschluss der Zeche Fürst Hardenberg an Minister Stein.
1968 zur Ruhrkohle AG (RAG).
1987 Einstellung der Förderung, Stilllegung 31. März 1987..
Letzte Dortmunder Zeche.
Danach Abriss der Tagesanlagen bis auf den Hammerkopfturm über Schacht 4.
Renovierung des Hammerkopfturmes und Einbau einer "Bürobank" an Stelle der alten Hängebank.
Zum Zeitpunkt der Aufnahme waren der ähnliche Hammerkopfturm über Schacht 2 und das Fördergerüst über Schacht 7 bereits abgerissen, die Schachthalle Schacht 4 teilabgerissen.
germany, ruhrarea
Ballarat International Foto Biennale, 2023.
Architect: CD Figgis 1887. The Mining Exchange was built between 1887-89 as a location for trading shares in mining companies during the Gold Rush Era. It is unique for the arched rooms on the side which housed the various traders, the matching arched highlights over and the light bow string steel trusses which support the curved roof. The building underwent a major refurbishment in 2004 and forms part of a remarkable gold rush streetscape in Lydiard Street Ballarat.
Here is my 3 page article about Exact Mining Services which was published in the February 2010 Edition of Power Torque Magazine.
Huge thanks to Chris & Maree Mullett.
We all know the Moon is made of green cheese despite what NASA might say. Aliens love green cheese and regularly mine the moon for the stuff. We know this is true otherwise what are all those holes and dark spots on the face of the moon if not the results of cheese mining. 😁 For the Macro Mondays group, topic: April Fools. Happy Macro Monday -- a good day to enjoy some moon cheese.
IC #6252 and company are almost finished dumping their fresh loads of taconite on Dock 6 as the sky's pinks and purples fade to dark blues and the lights across the harbor in Superior begin to twinkle. The dock loads ships via a conveyor belt system or gravity-feed; the conveyor belt system can load 10,000 tons of iron ore pellets onto a ship per hour. With marine shipping closed for the winter season though, the taconite will get added to the massive stockpiles (frame left) and get shipped out in the spring when the harbor opens up again.
Of the six docks, the first was originally built on the Superior side of the harbor in 1892. The Duluth Mesabi & Northern Railway built their first wooden ore dock here the next year in 1893. As ore mining exploded on the Mesabi Iron Range into the next decade, the railroad built larger and more advanced ore docks to accommodate the steam freighters that were increasing in size.
By World War One, there were four ore docks almost a half-mile long operating here alongside smaller docks for receiving coal and limestone. The adjacent and inactive Dock 5 was built back 1914 while Dock 6 was indeed the sixth and final dock built at this location in 1918. Over time, the smaller, wooden ore docks were retired and deconstructed while the steel docks remained.
To the very far right is CN's Hallett Dock, used for both outgoing and incoming cargos. Various products are handled here from bentonite clay and limestone, both used in the taconite production process.
More on the Duluth Docks and the harbor history can be read where this is sourced from:
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4ac782082b9147b79a76b689de89...
Clifton, Arizona, USA. Once a booming copper mining town but now mostly declining or already in decay and the majority of people and business have moved just up the road to Morenci. The Freeport McMoRan copper mine located in Morenci is one of the largest in the world
Cliff dwellings along the San Francisco and Gila Rivers are evidence of an advanced civilization that existed long before Caesar ruled Rome. Many specimens of pottery and stone implements are still to be found in these ancient dwelling places. In the mid-1500s, both Fray Marcos de Niza and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado passed through the area, following the San Pedro north to the Gila River. Geronimo was born in 1829 near the confluence of Eagle Creek and the San Francisco and Gila Rivers.
In 1856 the first mineral discoveries of the Morenci/Clifton area were found by California volunteers pursuing Apaches, and conflicts between the Apaches and advancing Anglo settlers touched off a 26-year-long war. Mining for gold and silver began in 1864, followed by copper in 1872, and the mine at Morenci quickly grew to become the largest copper producer in North America. Clifton's population ballooned from 600 in 1880 to 5000 by 1910, and it quickly earned its reputation as the wildest of the "Wild West" boomtowns. Neighboring Morenci was swallowed up by an open pit mine in the 1960s, but Clifton was preserved, and today Chase Creek Street is still graced with lovely Victorian-era buildings from the town's halcyon days as the place to quickly make and lose a fortune.
In 1983, Clifton survived two nearly fatal blows, first a nearly three-year-long strike that began on June 30, 1983. Then later that same year, on October 2, 1983, Tropical Storm Octave sent 90,900 cubic feet of water per second into the San Francisco River, which burst its banks, destroying 700 homes and heavily damaging 86 of the town's 126 businesses.
Just playing around with a photo taken at the Clark County Museum in Henderson, NV. Definitely worth the visit if your in Las Vegas. This is of an old Mining shed outside.
Copper ore made possible a more than 3oo years mining venture beginning about 1645. Today it is on Unesco's heritage list.
Bucyrus Erie, Model 2570 used for mining coal. The boom is 420 feet long. The maximum load is 800,000 pounds. The total working weight of this machine is about 16 million pounds. Sullivan County, Indiana.
An open cut mine encroaching into the countryside in the Hunter Valley of NSW. If you use the satellite view on the map you can see the extent of the mine.
Cool temperatures and partly cloudy skies create a stop and go environment for small critters like this female Mining Bee that was foraging for pollen on a Dandelion. Also windy, so the breeze masked the vibration that I caused when I grabbed onto the Dandelion's stem. This is my first real outing with the camera since last July. Nice to know that the muscle memory that I've built up in my hands is permanent.
Tech Specs: Canon 90D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT, E-TTL metering, -1 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI and Clarity in that order.
Nikon F801s
AF Nikkor 24-120mm f3.5-5.6
Kodak ColorPlus 200
Cinestil Cs41
Ion Slides2PC 35mm scanner
Affinity Photo 2
Looking west along the Erie Mining Company-built mainline at Murphy station at Murphy City, Minnesota. Murphy City was constructed by the mining company as a maintenance section crew base complete with a small neighborhood on the east side of Minnesota Highway 1. On the west wide, the section buildings cluster off of a rails spur visible to the right. Fascinating to walk around this area and see what evidence remains years after the last train plied the rails. Steve Glischinski shot a loaded taconite train heading to Taconite Harbor here in 1975. The original station sign was replaced and the plants have had plenty of time to mature. See below for his photo from this location.
Entry for the first round of Iron Forge, this time using minifigure hammers and wrenches as parts of the Mustafarian mining facility seen in Episode III.
Fourth Nevada expedition in the last two months... lots of maps, lots of miles. Did a fair amount of four-wheeling in early July, fixed some flat tires, got stuck near here overnight in some deep spring mud before getting towed out by a hunter at dawn... fun times!
These are the first ten models of a series of mining equipment in scale 1:28.5, built over the last six years.
All models feature remote control functions, using SBricks and Power Functions or Powered UP components.
The creations are built after real existing equipment from various brands and different eras.
I still have some ideas to expand the collection...
#1: P&H 2355
#2: Euclid R-170
#3: Marathon LeTourneau L-1200 LeTro-Loader
#6: Marion 5760 The Mountaineer
#8: O&K RH 120 C