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I found this tunnel just to the side of the photo with the mining building on built on long poles. Later I'd found one can get up closer but it was geting late and I was on the side road off of Idaho Springs.
The western margin of the Shan Plateau in eastern Myanmar is rich in gemstones such as rubies and sapphires, as well as gold, tin and lead. Working conditions in Myanmar mines can be poor - often workers’ health, safety and human rights are low priorities.
There is little to no protection against falling rocks, gases in the subsurface, the pervasive dust, >35°C temperatures or malaria. Tools are rudimentary and most rock is broken, sorted and transported by hand. Wages for mine workers (in 2014) were typically from 5000 Kyat (about $5) per month to 1000 Kyat (about $1) per day.
Night falls on a truck being refueled in Tire Alley. You can see the operator's silhouette at the back of the truck as she does her walk around check during the fuelling break.
This berm was created from excavated spoil at Blindwells open cast colliery. It served a dual purpose, both to store overburden while the quarry's coal seams were worked and to provide a barrier between the working area and neighbouring settlements.
This is a colour photograph of an industrial landscape. The main subject is a graded barrier or berm of stone waste with a levelled top. It lies behind a roadway and a white picket fence beside which there is a wooden sign.
The East Lothian coal basin peters out around the parish of Gladsmuir in a number of thinning, rising seams. Although not suitable for exploitation by conventional mining they were worked by opencast methods from 1978.
Accession number - 2000.300.148
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Today I decided to have a peek at the small synclinal coalfield at Goldsitch Moss, just over the Cheshire border and into Staffordshire - in the shadow of the Roaches. At least three seams from the lower coal measures have been worked here since at least the beginning of the fifteenth century until the last workings closed in the nineteenth century. The whole area is just a mass of old shafts and spoil heaps interspersed with gin circles and trackways. I doubt that there is much coal left after this intensity of working.
This is one of the larger shaft remains which has run in at some time. My guess is that this one dates from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.
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When we started drilling the crest of the highwall we just kept adding to the pattern. When the blast was shot there were about 800 holes initiated. That made it quite close to a million tonnes of broken rock.
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This is a ship used to defend mining ships from pirate attacks and chase away unauthorized miner vessels around asteroid belts.
Roadside Coal Breaker, near Pine Grove PA
Back your pickup under a shute, each shute different size coal
We entered the one shaft we saw that was safe. Carefully made it to the end. There were 2 rail cars inside, a bit of moisture, many test drill sites and a few tiny cave ins. It was an excellent adventure.
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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.
Gem mining sluice
New France hamlet, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA
A large gem mining sluice activity was built in winter 2016 in front of Trapper Dave's General Store, replacing a much smaller one that can be seen in this photo.
Silverton Museum is located in the old gaol buildings. Silverton was established in the 1880s after miners came to the region seeking silver. Lead and zinc was also found in the region. Most miners moved on to the larger centre of Broken Hill nearby and Silverton gradually dwindled towards becoming a ghost town. It has been maintained as a tourist destination. Located in far western New South Wales in Australia.
Apedale Mining Museum.
Canary resuscitation chamber. So as everyone knows miners took canaries into the mine with them.
If the canary was to become unconscious they would put him in this chamber, shut the door and turn a value at the end of the black oxygen tank on top to let oxygen into the chamber which would then resuscitate the bird.
The landowner advised me that there had once been an adit from which the Sweet seam was worked above Commonside in Macclesfield. This is likely to have been in the mid-nineteenth century and there is little left of the entrance. However, a short distance away this piece of wrought iron bridge rail is a tangible survivor of the mine.