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The Worthing Copper Mine, located on the banks of the Field River at Hallett Cove, South Australia, operated between 1847 and 1857. Established on the Hallett brothers' farm, it is a significant site of Australia's first mining era, featuring the oldest remaining Cornish enginehouse (c. 1851-1852). The mine failed to yield high-grade ore and was largely a fraud on investors.
Cool, partly cloudy weather makes the perfect conditions to photograph small solitary bees. I found this female Mining Bee foraging for pollen in a Dandelion. Gotta shoot them while I can because in a few short months they'll be gone for the year.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (almost 4x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI and Clarity in that order. Cheap trick: There was a light colored marble wall behind the flower and I positioned the critter close to it so the light from the flash would bounce off of the wall and back into the camera. I like to avoid black backgrounds whenever possible to maintain the suspension of disbelief. Everyone is use to seeing bees during the day, so an image that has a black background looks like a night time shot. You might not consciously think "bees aren't out at night" but a part of your brain will think that the image is "off" and you won't be able to just relax and enjoy it.
Three Legged Cross, Dorset
Andrena sp.
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The retired truck 172 from the Mont-Wright iron ore mine on display at a park in Fermont, Quebec, Canada.
in all the times we have been to bisbee and said we were going to take the mine tour (http://www.queenminetour.com/ ), this is the first time we actually made an effort to do so. it was fun :D
A vintage Cambrian No 1 flame safety lamp, made by E. Thomas & Williams Ltd, a mining lamp with a riveted plate showing 'Shell Tankers (UK) Ltd 1982 Safety Award'.
These were given to Shell personnel who saw an accident-free year on their vessel.
Perth is a mining town. Mining is a major source of revenue for Western Australia and hence the state is relatively wealthy and has the highest median household income of any Australian capital city. The picture shows the precinct at the ground floor for one of the major mining companies. This is repeated throughout the city with some lovely grounds
My last of 4 record shots of bees from yesterday's looooong walk, via a diversion because of a landslip, from Failford to Stair along the River Ayr. This one was busy mining its burrow in a footpath. Any help with ID much appreciated.
The bee in this shot, and those in the previous two uploads were all in the same spot.
The hills above Butte display 14 headframes, all that is left of the old copper mining operations. Butte was founded in as a mining camp in 1864 and quickly grew into an enormous copper boom town of close to 100,000. Current population is around 34,000. Mining generated billions of dollars in profits for the mine owners but has left the city with the nations largest Superfund cleanup site. Pit mining continues but unfortunately the public tours were closed as a result of the pandemic. There are lots of signs describing the mines served by the various headframes and commemorating the deaths of those who died in mining disasters. The city is preserving it's mining history.
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I called at the mining museum at Astley Green where I was made very welcome by the volunteers.
The steel lattice headgear for Number 1 Shaft is the only colliery headgear remaining in Lancashire. The structure, which is over 100 feet high, was built by Head Wrightson & Co. in 1912 and replaced the original wooden shaft sinking headgear.
The Ballarat Mining Exchange was built between 1887-9, and was used for trading of shares in mining companies during the gold rush. It still houses the Mining Exchange Gold Shop today.
Narrow gauge rail bogies at Lancashire (Astley) Mining Museum.
selective colour
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Night descends on a very remote abandoned cinder mining camp in the Mojave Desert. The mine is located near one of the numerous cinder cones in the region, the result of ancient black basalt lava flows. Illuminated during the exposure by a full moon and a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device. I hadn't had a flat tire in many years. However, some of the very rough roads brought that long streak to an end around midnight. That aside, it was a beautiful quiet night for photography.
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(Plate 5346) Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 15 minutes total "stacked". 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. September 2021.
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A couple weeks ago, Wilbur and I went to look for the miner's camp of the Horseshoe Mine. Instead of finding the camp, we found the mine. Initially Wilbur wasn't interested in returning to unpleasant bushwhacking on the backside of Mailbox Peak, but I convinced him I knew where to look. So we went and found the camp fairly easily.
Not much is left of it. While the outline of the buildings are somewhat visible, no actual structure is standing. Just a few pots and pans, cans, bottles, washbasins, the base of a stove, parts of rusty bedsteads and a laundry sink are scattered about in the last stages of decomposition. One of the most interesting relics was the system of rusty pipes for bringing water from a nearby creek. We followed the pipes until they disappeared under a tangle of blown down trees. It also appears the camp may have been used by loggers who came about 10 - 20 years after the miners as there were a couple of rusty, twisted saws present as well as some truck engine components.
We ate lunch near the site of the camp and thought about what the surroundings must have been like during the era of mining from 1904 - 1909 when the hillsides were covered with old growth forests. We surmised the miners used mules and wondered how they cared for them on the steep slopes covered in trees. And we wondered about the difficulties of logging. We could see the springboard notches in the enormous decaying stumps around us. Both the miners and loggers lived challenging lives trying to extract a living from the earth.
PS: The mine and the camp are difficult to find. I had GPS coordinates but they were marginally helpful as the GPS coordinates we got onsite were different than the ones available on-line. Good luck if you try to go there. Creek crossing and bushwhacking steep slippery slopes criss-crossed in blow-down await you.
I think this is an Early Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa) but didn't capture the tip of her abdomen where a tuft of orange hairs might confirm that - I was too interested by the pollen collected on her legs...
I coaxed this small Mining Bee onto a Dandelion and photographed her when she paused. This is one of five frames that I managed to take before she got her metabolism going and took off. One of the benefits of looking for something to photograph early in the morning when it's still cool outside.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI, Denoise AI, and Clarity in that order.
There were a couple of these in our Staffordshire garden today. I thought at first that they were female Halictus rubicundus but have been advised by a follower on Twitter that it's actually Andrena dorsata - the Short-fringed Mining-bee.
This is great because it's a new bee for the garden and a new bee for me too. Hopefully I'll recognise it if I see it again!
The ceiling in the entrance of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
The building houses, among other departments, the Materials Science and Engineering Department.
The Beaux-arts revival style building was designed by renowned architect John Galen Howard and is a California Historical Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.
Family: Andrenidae. Subfamily: Andreninae. Species: Either Andrena carlini (Cockerell, 1901) or Andrena regularis (Malloch, 1917). (Salem, MA)
Andrena sp. on Prunus caroliniana. Mining bees are among the most difficult bee genera to identify to species. If you're lucky enough to see a female, it is pretty easy to identify a bee as Andrena, as they carry pollen much higher on their hind legs than other bee species, often very close to the body.
Most Andrena species are early spring flyers. They built vertical tunnel like nests in the ground, and line them with waterproof secretions. Many Andrena species are oligolectic, or nearly so, specializing on just a few plant species. For this reason, observing the plants from which the females collect pollen can help identify the species.