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The old Massey backhoe in the foreground only just escaped being pushed into a pit as Henry Walker left site.
I taught myself how to use this old girl after knock off each day. We got a few more years use out of it.
There was about a metre of slop in the slew function so you had to be careful digging next to buildings.
Mining bee (Colletes hederae) emerging from its burrow in a vertical wall of sandy earth. Arne, Dorset, UK.
Potosí, Bolivia. *Sandy and me with our silver mining pose. We were pretty dirty at this point! And for the record, there are 140 million toxic mili-particles entering Sandy's system at this point because he dared to go hankerchief-less!
Publication: Pit & Quarry
Date of Publication: ~1955
This image has been digitally watermarked and is subject to copyright, use without permission prohibited. © C. Hille
Showers at The Dry where the miners’ lockers were kept.
Tin was mined at Geevor from the 18th Century under the name East Levant Mine until 1840, then North Levant from 1851 to 1891, when it was closed. It became Geevor Mine in 1911. Tin mining was badly affected by collapses in the price of tin in the 1980s, but despite efforts to keep the mine running, it closed down in 1990, the pumps being turned off in 1991, flooding the mine. There is tin in the mine, but extraction is economically unviable. Later it was turned into a tourist attraction.
The image was taken in some old claims of the Mayener Grubenfeld. This area is one of the oldest and most important places to mine for basalt stone, and is located in the center of the area named "Vulkanische Osteifel", the "Vulcanic Eastern-Eifel". The area was formed about 200000 years ago, as magma filled the Nettetal valley. The basalt stone is mined in the area starting about 5000 b.c. up to now, the makes the area to one of the oldest mining areas still in use.
This small claim was one of the typical claims of the area upto the time frame of 1900 to WWII. The claims was operated by around 5 persons and filled with water after it was abondaned.
Mayen, Germany
Protest rally called by Mining Dependents at Kranti Circle, KTC Panaji on 19.3.18. Supreme Court stopped all mining activities effective 16.3.18 after cancelling all mining permits. Protestors blocked traffic from both bridges and other entry points to the city. As a last resort, protestors were Lathi charged around 3pm. Nelson Albuquerque Video youtu.be/CzaV1Hyr8Us
Bill Kingsley Memorial Tour to South Australia. Crossing Spencer Gulf on the MV"Aurora", from Wallaroo on the Yorke Peninsular to Lucky Bay on the Eyre Peninsular. The vessel can carry all sizes of cars. buses and trucks and even oversized vehicle including farm and mining equipment,
Crater of Diamonds State Park. Personally, I thought this could be used as a type of torture device used in the 19th century :)
Old mining exploration road leading up to the Burwash Uplands. Following the road sure beats thrashing through 12 feet tall willow bushes.
The Doe Run Company offers underground mine tours to university classes, professional groups and attendees of Old Miners' Days.
And old "Beam" single-cylinder steam engine used in Colorado mining. Used for pumping and lifting, these engines were not efficient and were replaced by other types. But gold (and silver, ...) were powerful incentives so the mining folks did not wait for efficiency - they wanted things "yesterday", if not sooner.
So critical to the war effort was Pennsylvania's anthracite that a Richmond newspaper contended that Confederate General Lee had concocted a plan to destroy its coal mining operations during his 1863 invasion of the Keystone State.