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I think this is the Andrena Fulva (Tawny Mining Bee) But as always please correct/confirm my ID for me - thank you. Whatever she turns out to be she loves the golden forsythia HWW ;0)
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.
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.
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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St Bathans, South Island, NZ
This man-made lake was formed from extensive mining into gold-bearing quartz gravels during the Otago goldrush.
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Former Reserve Mining SD38-2 No. 1242 , now Progressive Rail 42, rests at Norma on a quiet Saturday morning.
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.
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.
Finally shedding their Reserve Mining brown and cream paint for LLPX blue and white, a quartet of SD38-2s rests in Superior during September 2001. GATX bought Reserve's SD38-2s after the mining company went under the late 1980s and the fairly new EMDs found a second life working around Minnesota and out of the Twin Ports leased to BN/BNSF.
One view of Federal Mill #3, once the largest lead mine and processing plant in the world. At its height, 4500 people worked here. Now a Missouri state historic site, it includes a museum and additional exhibits, with more planned for the near future. A fascinating place, huge in scale, with many interesting photo opportunities.
Cool, partly cloudy, weather created the perfect conditions for slowing down this Mining Bee so I could get close to it.
Tech Specs: Canon 90D (F11, 1/125, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT, E-TTL metering, -2/3 FEC. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI and Clarity in that order. ISO and shutter set to expose the sky in the background.
A male mining bee (Andrena sp.) resting on a leaf.
A Thank you to Bernhard Jacobi (terraincognita96) for the identification.
Das Bergbaudorf Raibl, ital. Cave del Predil, liegt am Fuße des Monte Re, einem sowohl geologisch, als auch historisch gesehen bedeutsamen Berg; er war der erste bestiegene Berg des Kanaltals und er wurde nicht von irgendeinem Bergsteiger erklommen, sondern vom Langobardenkönig Alboino, der im Jahr 568 aus Pannonien zurückkehrte und auf diesen Berg stieg, um den einfachsten Weg zu wählen um die friulanische Ebene zu erreichen. Heute stehen am Fuße des Berges Häuser, Brunnen und Lagerhallen, stumme Zeitzeugen der ehemals blühenden und sehr lebendigen Company Town, der wirtschaftlichen Drehscheibe des gesamten Tals, deren Bergwerk in den 60er Jahren 25% des nationalen Zinkbedarfs und mehr als 10% des Bleibedarfs lieferte. Das 1991 stillgelegte Bergwerk hat sehr antike Wurzeln; einige Geschichtswissenschaftler sind der Meinung, dass dort bereits im römischen Zeitalter Bergbau betrieben wurde. Belegt ist, dass der Bischof von Bamberg, als er 1007 das Tal in Besitz nahm Arbeitskräfte in die Umgebung von Tarvis entsandte, um den Bergbau und das Hüttenwesen zu entwickeln.
A female Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva) in our Staffordshire garden yesterday.
It was a great day for bee photography. The day before had been warm and sunny and lots of bees had been active. They it turned chilly and some of those that ventured out got "stranded"; waiting for some sunshine. An opportunity not to be missed!