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At night, Diwalwal is a sight to behold. By day, thousands of Filipinos struggle to survive in the gold-rush area. They have to contend not just with the extremely hard and dangerous work in the mines but with violence as well, as big mining interests seek to displace the small miners. (Davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
Photographed at the Battery Hill Mine Museum. Tennant Creek has a rich history as a gold mining centre. Here was found one of the richest gold bearing seams ever mined in the world. Very remotely located in central Australian desert country, life was harsh for the people who lived here.
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!).
Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, Canada, has a subarctic climate and a year round population of about 1900. It sits at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers. As the center of the Klondike Gold Rush, it is still a gold mining community, but it is very dependent on tourism at present. The town is a living museum of the gold rush era. Colorful buildings are common in the Yukon.
The last of the Bee images (This one Pollen Mining) on a wildflower naturalized up in the shelter belt (woods) west of our homestead.
Photographic Musings:
This image ended up with a particularly deep focus for this kind of work. Much of the image is fairly sharp which is noticable to me at least as I’ve done a few of these lately lolol
This particular ultra macro lens has a ring of LED’s around it’s periphery which helps tremendously in cranking up the f stop numbers to give yourself a deep focus. For something less than an inch long….from about 2 inches away…pretty deep field of focus….. So High F-stop = deep field of focus (thick) but you loose light gathering ability the higher the fstop number. Light has to come from somewhere, so make longer exposure speed and or turn up ISO (camera sensitivity) higher. Higher ISO numbers give you grain soo…double edge sword.
Anybody got a cell phone photo like this? They would work for this I believe.
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Monana borderlands.
Arltunga Historical Reserve in the East MacDonnell Range in the desert country of the Northern Territory Australia.
The Museum is run by a group of volunteers in a microgranite quarry at Threlkeld, with a Geology Room, Bookshop, Underground Experience, Gold Panning, Excavator Display, Engine House and Steam Engine, all there to enjoy together with the Quarry and the views. Also on offer are mine tours and mineral panning.
The quarry itself is a RIGS site and displays contacts between the “Skiddaw Slate” and the granite intrusion, as well as other fascinating features.
Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum have their own narrow gauge railway and “Sir Tom”, a steam locomotive, hauls passengers daily in the summer holidays and on other weekends. In quiet periods one of the collection of vintage classic diesel locos is used.
Handmade 9 inch (230mm) penstock or gate valve used for controlling water flow through a pipe column in local tin mining operations.
Circa 1930.
An agreement will introduce new developed technology by CMM on investment, planning, operation, risk management and logistics of the Mining.