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This was my first trip to the Sherwood Forest Faire, SE of Austin, TX. It's much smaller than the Texas Renaissance Festival but it had a nice feel to it. I went there for 2 days in March 2013. I'll definitely be going back to it next year!
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.
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.
Pictures: Wouter Biesterbos. Pictures of site are at Boroo gold mine.
Processing plant for tailings. On the right: tailings.
Reliable Wheel attends the China Coal Mining Exhibition in Beijing, China in support of our friends at Dalian Sime
Family and friends line up to say goodbye to Dawn Himmelberger, the widow of coal miner Dave Himmelberger, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound a few days earlier. Himmelberger was the owner of R&D Coal Company when one of his miners, Dale Reightler, was killed last October in a mining accident. Since the accident, mining regulators have handed down over $800,000 in fines to Himmelberger.
Gauges from a Wabco mining truck on static display. Notice the hour metre has rolled all the way over.
Postcard with message: Helo May, Do you know this place. mrs. H. is still hear, its is snowing to day from your friend W. E. (?) to Miss Mary A. Scott, Oregon City Oregon, November 11, 1909.
Blaenavon Big Pit 2012 Series.
One of the locomotives that would have been used to haul the coal wagons in the mine. Note the small wagon to the rear with seats to carry the mines to the coal face.
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Satellite image showing coal strip mining at Dawson in 1999. Refer to index map for location. Compare with 2002 image. Purple shows active mine workings; pale green areas next to active workings indicate stabilized tailings. Area shown is 6.5 miles across. Landsat-7 ETM image taken on October 14, 1999.
This culvert carries a stream under the spoil tip of Little Cannel Pit, Aspull. The nineteenth century brickwork is beginning to fail and the pressure of the waste above has distorted the profile in some lengths. What will happen when it inevitably collapses?
Preserved Bucyrus Erie 1850B Stripping Shovel "Brutus" in West Mineral, KS. Originally worked for P&M Mining. 5,500 ton operating-weight, 150' boom, 90 CY bucket. Began operation in 1963 and worked for 11 years.
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Title: Atlas accompanying volume III on Mining industry / United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel; Clarence King, Geologist in charge.
Conference: United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel (1867-1881)
Other title: Mining industry atlas
Publisher: New York : J. Bien, [187-?].
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources --United States --Maps.
Location: Babbidge Map Library Double Oversize-NonCirculating-Level 4
Call Number: G1201.H1 U53 1870
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Detail view from the vicinity of the in-situ uranium mine facilities near Douglas, Wyoming. Google Earth users: download the KMZ file here: skytruth.mediatools.org/objects/view.acs?object_id=11801.
Satellite image showing details of landscape impact caused by an "in-situ" uranium leaching operation in central Wyoming operated by Power Resources, Incorporated. In 2008, PRI was fined by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality for multiple violations at this facility (read about it here: www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2008/04/04/news/wyom.... Image prepared by SkyTruth (www.skytruth.org).
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.
Gauge from a Wabco mining truck on static display. Wabco, for those who don't know, was originally the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. Yes, that Westinghouse. They were one of the first big industrial manufacturers. Notice this truck is supposed to run around 15-17 mph.
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Title: Atlas accompanying volume III on Mining industry / United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel; Clarence King, Geologist in charge.
Conference: United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel (1867-1881)
Other title: Mining industry atlas
Publisher: New York : J. Bien, [187-?].
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources --United States --Maps.
Location: Babbidge Map Library Double Oversize-NonCirculating-Level 4
Call Number: G1201.H1 U53 1870
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The area is still polluted by the mining that finished over 100 years ago. The are is ricjh in minerals and if Redruth and Camborne did not exist, it would be the largest open cast mining in the world
Just outside of Norway is a small town that is still mining for Iron Ore and we took a tour of the historical areas of the mine and I spotted these logs off the the side of one of the passages.