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Issued in 1954 by Cowdenbeath Town Council, local churches, and representatives of local firms and schools, setting out the obligations of all citizens in the home, in the community, at work, and in spiritual matters. It was hoped this would encourage tolerance and friendship at a time of social change when many miners were moving into the area from the West of Scotland.
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I finally saw the latest Star Trek movie, and the Romulan mining vessel in the movie looked very inspired by generative art! This is my take on the ship.
Springhill, Nova Scotia
The mines in the Springhill coalfield were established in the 19th century, and by the early 1880s were being worked by the Cumberland Coal & Railway Company Ltd. and the Springhill & Parrsboro Coal & Railway Company Ltd.
Springhill's first mining disaster, the 1891 explosion, occurred at approximately 12:30 pm on Saturday, February 21, 1891, in the Number 1 and Number 2 collieries, which were joined by a connecting tunnel at the 1,300-foot level when a fire caused by accumulated coal dust swept through both shafts, killing 125 miners and injuring dozens more. Some of the victims were 10 to 13 years old.
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The 1956 explosion occurred on November 1, 1956, when a mine train hauling a load of fine coal dust up to the surface of the 25-year-old Number 4 colliery to remove it from the pithead encountered a heavy flow of ventilation air being forced down the shaft by surface fans. The flow of air disturbed the dust on the ascending train cars and spread throughout the air of the shafts of No. 4. Before the train reached the surface, several cars broke loose and ran back down the slope of No. 4, derailing along the way and hitting a power line, causing it to arc and ignite the coal dust at the 5,500-foot level.
The resulting explosion blew the slope up to the surface where the additional oxygen created a huge blast, which levelled the bankhead on the surface – where the coal is hauled out from the mine in an angled shaft into a vertical building (the coal is then dropped into railway cars). Most of the devastation was sustained by the surface buildings, but many miners were trapped in the shaft along with the derailed train cars and fallen support timbers and other items damaged by the explosion.
Heroically, Drägermen (rescue miners with breathing equipment) and barefaced miners entered the 6,100-foot-deep No. 4 to aid their colleagues. 39 miners died, and 88 were rescued.
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The 1958 bump, which occurred on October 23, 1958, was the most severe "bump" (underground seismic event) in North American mining history. The 1958 bump injured Springhill residents and devastated the town's economy.
Springhill's No. 2 colliery was one of the deepest coal mines in the world. Sloping shafts 14,200 feet in length led to a vast labyrinth of galleries more than 4,000 feet below the surface.
On October 23 a small bump occurred at 7:00 pm during the evening shift; it was ignored, as this was a somewhat common occurrence. However, just over an hour later, at 8:06 pm, an enormous bump "severely impacted the middle of the three walls that were being mined and the ends of the four levels nearest the walls".
The bump spread as three distinct shock waves, resembling a small earthquake throughout the region, alerting residents on the surface over a wide area to the disaster. "Dräger" teams and teams of barefaced miners entered No. 2 colliery to begin the rescue effort. They encountered survivors at the 13,400-foot level walking or limping toward the surface. Gas released by the bump was encountered in increasing concentrations at the 13,800-foot level where the ceiling had collapsed, and rescuers were forced to work down shafts that were in a partial state of collapse or were blocked completely by debris.
Miners not saved by being either in side galleries or some other shelter were immediately crushed during the bump, the coal galleries and faces being completely destroyed. 75 survivors were on the surface by October 24, 1958.
After five and a half days, contact was established with a group of 12 survivors on the other side of a 160-foot rockfall. A rescue tunnel was dug; it broke through to the trapped miners on October 30, 1958.
On November 1, 1958, the last group of survivors was found.
Of the 174 miners in No. 2 colliery at the time of the bump: 75 died, and 99 were trapped but rescued.
Following the third disaster in 1958, the operator Dominion Steel & Coal Corporation Ltd. (DOSCO), shut its mining operations in Springhill, and they were never reopened.
Local elites or a dissatisfied population may attempt to take over the mineral deposit or force out the owners.
Taken from the road just below the McAllester mine and above Central City which happens to be the oldest mining district in Colorado and the U.S. Date on the mine is 1897.
Miniature Mining bee, legs loaded with pollen, on dill flowers - this tiny bee is only about 7 or 8mm long & seems particularly attracted to dill flowers. Female collects pollen and builds a clump of it in her burrow, once the clump is the right size she will lay an egg on top of the clump.
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Landsat satellite image overview of open-pit uranium mining in central Wyoming's Gas Hills, taken on September 3, 2000. Image prepared by SkyTruth (www.skytruth.org).
Overview of an in-situ uranium mining operation near Douglas, Wyoming, recently cited for "an alarming volume of environmental violations" (http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2008/04/04/news/wyoming/08b3f724c99992fa8725742000812281.txt). Facility location inferred from Google Maps search of street address (location indicated by crosshair). Image generated from Google Earth on 4/5/08. Google Earth users: download the KMZ file here: skytruth.mediatools.org/objects/view.acs?object_id=11801.
Taken on 05 August 2014 in Namibia near Rosh-Pinah Orange-River (DSC_6087)
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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 STW 1138 is a mining work horse used for the procurement of rare minerals and compounds found in Asteroid belts.
The Incom developed T1 laser carries an internal cooling system and is used to cut around desired specimens for extraction by use of the forward claws.
Of late Space Pirates led by Finhead Stonebone have been harrassing the Mining operation and found themselves one to many times at the wrong end of this little vessels powerful T1 laser
Female Clarke's Mining Bee (Andrena clarkella). She landed on my hand which was handy, as I was struggling to photograph them on the soil covered upturned tree roots. The pool of water was quite deep, and so they had their own little moat.
Exhibition
Mining the Collections
Albury Art Gallery
Albury NSW Australia
Curator: Bridget Guthrie
Image taken with a Horizont Panorama Camera (1972 Model).—Shot on (unbranded) Ferrania FG Plus 400 film stock. The film was commercially developed and scanned with an Epson Perfection V700, using Silverfast Negafix software. The negatives were scanned as Kodak Max400 (no settings for Ferrania 400) at 1200 dpi resolution.
© Dirk HR Spennemann 2011, All Rights Reserved
Cryptocurrency mining is a growing global trend. Pictured is an image of a Sapphire Crypto Mining Rig.
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Photo by Mark, South Africa 2012
Preparations have begun for the Soweto Kinch show planned at Freedom Square, South Africa on 31st March 2012.
This is a picture taken on the research and planning trip 26th January to 2nd February 2012.
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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
This looks like yet another Andrena mining-bee choosing our sandy Staffordshire garden to dig its nest in. This one was prospecting various areas, having a little dig, moving on and then doing the same all over again. I hope she decides to stay.
I'm at the stage with solitary bees where I can recognise (with no particular degree of certainty), some of the more distinctive species. This one doesn't fit that category sadly, so I'm at a bit of a loss. It's a medium-sized Andrena (somewhere between A. cineraria and A. haemorrhoa in length). I thought at first that it looked a bit like Andrena barbilabris (there's a largish nesting aggregation nearby) but I don't really have a clue!
1.Gold Panning: This is arguably the most basic form of gold mining today, which isn’t to say that it’s the least profitable. In gold panning, one can buy the materials needed without breaking the bank—all the basic tools are just a gold pan, a spade or shovel, a sieve and some small glass bottles for keeping the gold in. This is also the very first step to placer mining or finding out if a much larger gold vein is at hand and can be found.
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.
Roadside Coal Breaker, near Pine Grove PA
Back your pickup under a shute, each shute different size coal
Birds eye view of a mining operation in upstate Wyoming sometime back in 1958 or '59
Near as I can figure this is the overburden pile for a strip mine.
Well since there's a couple other item's in this area that could be connect to that Boiler I'm gona stick my neck out and sat this could be connected too.
This is a ship used to defend mining ships from pirate attacks and chase away unauthorized miner vessels around asteroid belts.
Solo Bitcoin mining does mean that you don’t have to share your profits with a huge group of other people. However, it also means that you don’t get to share the profits of the thousands of other miners, either. You only get paid out if you’re the miner who solves the hash.
Along the road to Dante's view are these colorful hills. The buildings are part of a mining operation.
Would you do this? Miners, in the US, New Mexico, celebrating their discovery of a pocket of fluorite crystals near Blanchard, NM. And THIS is an easy mine near the surface of the “hillside” of mountains. Attached are two photos I took at the display across from mindatDOTorg, Mineral City venues of Tucson Gem & Mineral Show 2026. This is a photo of their photo placed inside a display case. Link to article about these men and mining there, in comments. See one of their finds in next photo on my stream.
Caroline Kende-Robb, Executive Director, Africa Progress Panel (APP), Switzerland; Global Agenda Council on Justice at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2015 in Cape Town. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Jakob Polacsek
Cryptocurrency mining is becoming increasingly popular. Pictured is an image of a Sapphire Crypto Mining Rig.
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