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Eureka, Tintic Mining District, Juab county, UT
Mormon stockholders named the city Ruby Hallow, it was renamed Eureka around 1870. Eureka quickly become the center of Tintic Mining District. The mines produced gold, silver, lead and zinc. Once it was one of the top mining areas of Utah.
Eureka housed financial institutions, local and county governmental buildings, churches and an impressive post office. Once it had a population of around 3500 but today only 700 people live here. Most of the buildings of the historic Main St are abandoned and/or crumbling. There are some antique shops and grocery stores (some of them closed). Other places to visit are the log cabin of Porter Rockwell and the Tintic Mining Museum (open sporadically, call first!).
Bodie used to have tens of thousands of residents, numerous churches, a Main Street, and a booming local mining business.
The changing course of the railroad dried up this town, just like the disappearance of the Owens Riverway had decimated the once-thriving Eastern Sierra Valley.
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.
The Arigna Mining Experience is a unique community inspired initiative which records 400 years of mining history in the area. Coal mining provided much needed work in a region of poor agricultural land. Regular employment was uncommon in the province of Connaught in the 19th and 20th centuries, and it is often said; “There was money in Arigna when there was no money elsewhere”. The industry sustained the community of Arigna down through the centuries and helped them through the horrors of the famine years (1845 to 1852).
The possibility of developing a mining visitor centre in Arigna, Co. Roscommon first emerged when the last coal mines closed in 1990. This development was driven by the local community with the major support from a number of agencies within County Roscommon. Arigna LEADER was the first advocate of the development and secured the necessary finance to initiate the project. Funding followed from the Arigna Enterprise Fund and the Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, which approved a grant of €950,000. This financing brought the project to completion. The development, as it stands, represents a total investment of over €1.5 million, including over €250,000 raised by the local community.
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.
Mr. Murray Hitzman, Associate Director of Energy and Minerals for the United States Geological Survey, delivers his testimony before the subcommittee.
Photo: Lexi Lehman/Earthworks
“We’re very thankful to the U.S. law, because it will put an end to the chaos in the mining sector,” a mining transporter in Njingala told Enough. Here, the transporter carries a 120-pound bag of tin ore. Njingala, North Kivu. (Sasha Lezhnev/Enough Project)
A turntable for trains in the Coal Creek area. Coal Creek was used as the base for mining operations in the area, with several railroads. Because it is located in a gorge, a turntable was necessary to turn trains around.
The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers is the world’s oldest professional mining organisation. In its early years it undertook many experiments and its Members investigated accidents, trying to understand the causes of mining disasters and ensuring measures were put in hand to prevent further disasters. This scientific analysis of accidents is common today, but was ground breaking at the time. The institute is housed in one of the finest buildings in Newcastle, Neville Hall, a Victorian building built at the time when high-Gothic architecture was coming into fashion.
While I was photographing the digger wasps (see previous upload), this mining bee also turned up. If you're interested in my ramblings, please see my previous upload, because I am curious about what was going on. If it's possible to tell the species of the mining bee, I'd love to know. I guess it's Andrena something?
A nice collectors item originating from the 1860's - constructed from brass. Used for both magnetic and azimuth surveys with internal & external verniers. In my time as a trainee mining surveyor this was the first instrument I was allowed to get my sticky fingers on.
Full Quality Version available at: Download TIFF from MAGIC
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