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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
A view of Iron Ore mining in Kudremukh National Park of Karnataka state, in south-western India's Western Ghats.
You can see the hill tops exposed to elements, devoid of vegetation and grass cover. Below flows the Bhadra River.
The mining activity in the Park has STOPPED, due to the help sought by Karnataka's wildlife activists with India's judicial system.
GEAR: Nikon FM10 SLR, Nikkor 35 - 70mm lens, 35 mm Slide film
SCANNER: Scanned CanoScan U1250 flat bed scanner.
ABOUT WESTERN GHATS:
Western Ghats, or Sahayadris as they are known in many Indian languages, are a 1600 km long chain of mountains that run parallel to the Arabian Sea in peninsular India. They give birth to almost all the major rivers of south India. These rivers provide drinking and irrigation water for more than 250 million people. The 'Ghats' are one of earth's designated 25 Bio-diversity 'Hot Spots'. They are home to some of earth's rarest flora and fauna and most spectacular landscapes. To know more, please visit www.westernghats.info
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.
Timuay Fernando Mudai of the Pigsalabukan Bangsa Subanon (PBS), expresses his disgust before his fellow Mindanaoan Lumads over the desecration of Mt. Canatuan in Siocon, Zamboanga del Norte, where in a Canadian-backed TVI Resource Development Inc. is currently mining for gold and copper. Mt. Canatuan is a sacred mountain of the Subanons. Over 100 Mindanao lumads are currently in Camp Alano, Toril, Davao City for the State of the Indigenous Peoples Address (SIPA). SIPA, which will end tomorrow, July 31, is a gathering of Mindanao lumads to expose the real state of IPs in Mindanao
Coal Sample: the coal was attached to a "rib" which is the solid coal on the side of any underground passage such as the side of a pillar or the wall of an entry.
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The Buxton coalfield was extensively worked in the eighteenth century for the benefit of the Duke of Devonshire as landowner. The Goyt's Moss workings comprised a large number of shafts connected by raised roadways with the associated whim gins being moved from shaft to shaft as the workings progressed. Analysis of the accounts for 1790 suggests that usually three shafts were in operation at any one time, although two and four were also worked at times.
The image shows the remains of a collapsed eighteenth century shaft out on the moor. The lighter coloured patch on the right is part of the gin circle of which the remainder had been lost into the collapsed shaft which would have been 75 or 80 feet deep.
Long wall coal mining under the Waratah Rivulet, that feeds Sydney's water supply, has cracked the river. Peabody coal company is trying to glue the cracks together again with an epoxy substance.
Photos by Max Phillips // Jeremy Buckingham's office: www.flickr.com/photos/62459458@N08/sets/72157628426391761/
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"All and everybody,
this is my claim,
fifty feet on the gulch,
cordin to Clear Creek District Law,
backed up by shotgun amendments."
--anonymous miner quote, 1849
No man crawls out of the daylight into a hole in the mountain without a glint in his eye for the ore he hopes is hiding just below where he's standing. It's brutal life, with the danger of sudden death or the certain likelihood of a bad old age.
The West is dotted with ghost towns, and sprinkled among them are some ghost mines--relics of the quest for gold, silver, copper, and ore. Ghost towns tantalize with the hope of finding an old bottle, antique nails--but the mines whisper the promise of "gold". There's also rotting timbers and rattlesnakes, and tales of The Dutchman's Gold and the Superstition Mountains, buried apache gold taken from the pony soldiers.
It whispers in the wind through weathered planks, and in the howl of the coyote in the night--"not so long ago--still waiting...still waiting...."
'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.
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'Instructions for use of Mason's Wet Bulb Thermometer' (Form 23) (Coal Mining).
Miners can be exposed to extremely high temperatures which may lead to illness or impairment. The Wet Bulb temperature is measured using a thermometer, the mercury bulb of which is surrounded by a wetted gauze. The effect of the gauze is to saturate the atmosphere locally by evaporation, so the WB temperature is reduced in proportion to the dryness of the air.
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Black hardback book titled: 'A Mining Engineer's Survey Manual', by J.E. Metcalfe, Published for Mine & Quarry Engineering by Electrical Press, 1951. 341 pages.
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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
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.
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!