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I can't complain too much about it because mining is what keeps my community afloat and it is the riches from the miners that afford to come to my business and grace me with the comforts of my life.

an old 19th century mining paraffin lamp.

Gem mining at Emerald Village, Little Switzerland, NC with Terry and grandson, Kohl.

Teck Celebrity Pie Throw 2017. Photo credit: Phil Casey.

Hiking the Perseverance Trail.

Feeding on the 1st Dandelion's in the garden

Mining bees, or digger bees, (familys Andrenidae & Anthophoridae) nest in burrows in the ground. Unlike the honey bee, mining bees are "solitary" bees. They do not form long-lived colonies, nor do they live inside a single, well-defended nest controlled by one queen bee. Instead, each mining bee female usually digs her own individual burrow to rear her own young. Large numbers of these bees may nest near one another if soil conditions are suitable.

Stack; two stamping and winding engine houses;Towanroath shaft and Cornish beam engine house. The low structure is a calciner, "a furnace and heating chamber in which ores were roasted to drive off impurities such as sulphur and arsenic". A mining landscape.

A run of old coal carts .....

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As a project for uni, I looked at the physical and cultural damage caused by mining in Australia

Indian Springs Metro Park, MI

The coal mining risk assessment includes an assessment of the Coal Authority Mining Report. The fundamental purposes of the coal mining risk assessment are to identify the risks of coal mining at the development site. The Coal Authority is a legal consultant for any planning application within a High-Risk Zone. Also, a visit to the offices of the Coal Authority to assess mining plans, a review of modern and historical published geological maps, and a review of technical reports/memoirs. For more details, kindly visit-https://www.earthenvironmental.co.uk/coal-mining-risk-assessment/

A detail of the Mining Museum - April 2008

Dirt roads in a minning facility

Mont Wright Mining Complex Quebec

Clipstone Colliery, now closed and being dismantled

The bell tower rang in the morning to summon the workers for a morning prayer before starting the days work in the mine below.

 

It was built in 1733 and supposedly the clock still works.

Mining Monday: An Exploration into the United States Mining Industry. Sources: National Mining Association; Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration; MN Dept. of Natural Resources; US Bureau of Labor Statistics; CO Mining Association.

Wall, Duluth, MN. May 1990.

 

Tumco (originally Hedges) was a gold mining town in the Cargo Muchachos range founded in the 1870s. For half a century men toiled in this place, dying of exhaustion, starvation, and disease, drowned or crushed in mines and quarries, all for one dollar a day in wages. Today little remains of Tumco save some ruins, derelict mining equipment and a cemetery full of unmarked graves. The site is almost totally silent save for the wind whistling through the jagged Muchachos and the hundreds of tunnels delved into them. This place gave me the creeps.

Teck Celebrity Pie Throw 2017. Photo credit: Phil Casey.

Teck Celebrity Pie Throw 2017. Photo credit: Phil Casey.

Coal Mining near Douglas

Mining protest in support of the Amadiba community in South Africa. Protest held outside offices of major UK investor in Australian company wanting to mine at Xolobeni and being opposed by the Amadiba people

Mining and Industrial - Coal Mine and Tower Crane - cola, mine, dozer, dump, truck, tower, crane, pact, constructions, rossmoyne, waters

Eckley Miners Village. Photographs taken by Vinnie Langdon III.

Mining and Industrial - Coal Mine and Tower Crane - cola, mine, dozer, dump, truck, tower, crane, pact, constructions, rossmoyne, waters

Talc from Abbottabad

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