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Colletes hederae in Somerset. The colony I discovered last year, the first I'm aware of on my home patch, is active again this year with dozens of bees already. There aren't many burrows yet, probably a combination of being early in their season, plus the recent weather has been very wet. In today's sunshine, most of the females seemed to be spending their time looking for the perfect spot to start digging but a few are ahead of the game.
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.
Røros, Norway
Røros has about 80 wooden 17th and 18th century buildings which have led to its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.
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Lenabem
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Skeletal Mess
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GHH mining machine underground shovel, when they were introduced in the Monteponi mine, helped to make the work lighter and faster. He wouldn't mind seeing it displayed in a protected area and not exposed to the elements. A machine created to work indoors that ends its "career" outdoors. The most interesting part are the reinforcements made by hand welding along the entire profile of the blade of the shovel. Although not a certainly functional artistic work; this is proof of the mastery and skills that the staff had acquired in working in a mine like this.
Pala da sottosuolo GHH mining machine, quando vennero introdotte nella miniera di Monteponi aiutarono a rendere il lavoro più leggero e veloce. Non sabbe male vederla esposta in una zona protetta e non esposta alle intemperie. Una macchina che nasce per lavorare al chiuso che finisce al sua "carriera" all'aria aperta. La parte più interessante sono i rinforzi realizzati con saldatura a mano lungo tutto il profilo della lama della pala. Seppure non un lavoro artistico sicuramente funzionale; questo a riprova della maestria e delle competenze che il personale aveva acquisito nel lavorare in una miniera come questa.
Locker room in an abandoned coalmine.
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Three Legged Cross, Dorset
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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.
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
An old mining place, it's on CR 119 I forget the excat location buy I pass it on the was to Estes Pk.
Gold Dredge 8 extracted millions of ounces of gold from the frozen Alaskan ground.
Gold Dredge 8 near Fairbanks Alaska operated between 1928 and 1959 and played an essential role in mining and the economy of the Tanana Valley.
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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.
I used Luminar 4 to process this middle of the day shot and make it an evening sunset. This shed and the mining machinery around it belong to the Long Tunnel Extended Mine in Walhalla, Victoria. In the forty years of its operation, the mine produced 13.7 tonnes of gold until it closed in 1911.
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.
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.
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Mining Bee Female with the golden hairs, looking quite different from the males, I thought they were two different seceis at first.
Blue Sky Mine
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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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12.06.2025, LEAG
empty coal train from power station Jänschwalde to open cast mining Welzow-Süd
An der Kohlebahn