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Nation : Canada
Pavilion Name : Western Provinces Pavilion
Subject : Pavilion (National)
Island : Ile Notre Dame
Description : Carts entering the mine shaft exhibit inside the Western Provinces Pavilion,
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.
'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.
The Tata coal mine at West Bokaro. Most of those employed at the mine are not from the locally displaced Adivasi communtiy so must find work in peripheral businesses of migrate in search of employment.
Photo: Tom Pietrasik
Jharkhand, India
January 31st 2010
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.
A female Ashy Mining Bee (Andrena cineraria). This one warming up on a gravestone in my local churchyard.
Large-scale gold mining in Guyana.
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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 figure used in a lecture from JR James at the Department of Town and Regional Planning at The University of Sheffield between 1967 and 1978.
Certificate from the estate of James Robert Elkin (1949-2015).
Homestake Mining Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
19 maj 2011, Deutsches Bergbau-museum. There are five principal methods of underground mining: longwall, continous, blast, shortwall and retreat mining.
Mining Equipment is a lessor, dealer & builder of mine equipment based out of Durango, CO. I'm just guessing this little mine loco I caught on a flatbed truck at the Love truck stop in Roscoe, IL is going to or coming from a mine in upper Michigan.
It had no other markings besides M.E. I'm also gonna guess it's in the 6 - 8 ton range and 24" - 30" gauge. M.E. has a lot of loco's listed on their web site, but no pics and nothing numbered of course.
Lousal became known for a pyrite mine in the pyrite belt of the southern Iberian peninsula, which was first opened in 1900 and in 1928 was transferred to the SAPEC company. This mine was closed in 1988.
Lousal has suffered from high unemployment after the ckosure. Today there is a mining museum in Lousal.
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.
MINING CAMP RESTAURANT
Prospector's Dinners Served
Family Style 'All You Can Eat'"
Apache Junction, AZ
Ironically, it was lead mining that killed Picher, one of America's newest ghost towns.
The Picher area became the most productive lead-zinc mining field in the Tri-State district producing over $20 billion worth of ore between 1917 and 1947. More than fifty percent of the lead and zinc metal used during World War I were produced by the Picher district. At its peak over 14,000 miners worked the mines and another 4,000 worked in mining services. Many of these workers commuted by an extensive trolley system from as far away as Joplin and Carthage, Missouri. Mining ceased in 1967 and water pumping from the mines ceased. The contaminated water from some 14,000 abandoned mine shafts, 70 million tons of mine tailings, and 36 million tons of mill sand and sludge remained as a huge environmental cleanup problem.The area became part of the Tar Creek Superfund site.
On April 24, 2006, Reuters reported that Picher had been scheduled to be closed and all residents removed. Due in large part to the removal of large amounts of subsurface material during mining operations, many of the city's structures have been deemed in imminent danger of caving in
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.
Local people do not distinguish among mining companies on the basis of size or type (even though the companies may have different resources, capacities and procedures to respond to local population needs).