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Where am I from? Colax. Ordinary mining colony. There are dozens of them. Not a perfect place, but it could be worse. Atmosphere is inert, put pressure is normal. So oxygen mask is your best friend there. It’s quite cool place: 10-15C at day, just above zero at night. Rocks, sand and dust everywhere. And iron ore. Goode one. It’s only reason for colony to exist. Ore is quite unique; it’s very reach and doesn’t need much refining. The whole subsector gets iron from here. Plus a bit of extra rare metals. Colax isn’t old colony, everything works perfect. Most of industrial processes are automated. So there are not many workers. It will change in future when machines will start to break. More workers to support equipment, more equipment to support life of workers. You understand. But now it’s fine. Mines are in good condition, metal factory too. Sometimes some issues happen in spaceport, but it is normal. Usually it’s quite there, only a few shuttles arrive per week. But when a large cargo ship appears on orbit, it’s total mess. Such ships can’t land due to their size, so small orbital shuttles are used. Lots of them. But number of landing pads is limited. Spaceport works non-stop for several days to process cargo. And if only somebody mixes up container…
This composite shows mining bees emerging from a domestic lawn in Crowborough . Mining bees usually nest in the ground and at first the entrances to their burrows can look like worm casts. On closer inspection the burrows can be seen to be marked by little mounds of earth. They are good pollinators and harmless.
They are much smaller than honey bees and their burrows can be 60 cm deep. A clump of pollen is accumulated in the burrow and the female will then lay her egg on the clump. The bees hibernate over winter in the burrows and emerge in spring as these ones in my daughter's garden have. There are around 100 different species in the UK but I'm not clever enough to identify which these particular bees are.
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Archaeological evidence, such as arrow heads and stone dart tips, has found that there was prehistoric and historic occupation by Native American peoples. The earliest occupation was about 9,000 years ago.[3] Artifacts found represent the Apishapa culture, Cody complex and Duncan complex.[1] The clay was used in prehistoric and historic times to create and paint pottery and as paint for ceremonial purposes. The selenite clay was used for arrowheads. The "channels" were used to herd buffalo into a gulch where they could be easily hunted with bows and arrows.[3][4] In the 1800s Euro-American people settled in the park property.[3]
The Calhan Paint Mines Archaeological District was designated by the National Park Service. The land is protected by the El Paso County Parks Department, with funding by the State Historical Fund for master planning and an archaeological survey.[3]
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.
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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.
Across the way is mining remnits plus this area is known for the silver but in 1893 silver dropped and lots of folks lost money. Maybe in the pages of Georgetown I can find info on Silverdale hidden in those pages.
This view of the Residential District in Red Lodge Montana is from the natural bench (terrace) on the west side of town. Many of the homes belonged to early residents involved in Coal Mining. Most of the miners homes date between 1905 and 1915. Early prospectors came to the Rock Creek Valley looking for gold but found coal instead. By 1907 there were 2 competing coal companies in Red Lodge, one on the East side of town and one on the west side. At the peak of production in 1916, the mines employed over 1600 miners and supported a town of more than 5,000 people. With rising labor costs and the advent of cheaper strip mining operations elsewhere in the US, the underground coal mines in the area started to close. By 1932, both of Red Lodge's mines were closed. Red Lodge made an ecomonic transition from mining town to tourist town and one of the gateways to Yellowstone National Park.
One or two of my ancestors emigrated from the United Kingdom. Even today the regions they left behind rank poorly in the wealth stakes. Cornwall and Devon it seems have not gained from the passage of time and I wonder if, in part, this is why.
My awakening in Cornwall revealed the degree to which Cornwall was dependent on mineral wealth. Like almost everywhere that poor people cannot through poverty raise the capital to exploit these resources I wonder if blow-ins, well, blew in, extracted the wealth and then simply left. It recalls the recent fates of Captains Flat and of the Woodlawn mines in my region.
I don't really know the answer to this question, but I have my suspicions if it hadn't been for the Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick who greatly improved steam pump efficiencies the exploitation of Cornish tin and copper mightn't have happened. Today we get an annoyingly short photo stop at Bottalack, a place where Trevithick's genius enabled deep mining that extended even beneath the sea floor.
Now mostly ruined there's a lot to see here. Spread out along the beautiful Cornish coastline there is the wreckage of not just mines which produced tin, copper and arsenic but their pump houses and roasting ovens. Unremarkable for Great Britain, nestled among the industrial ruins is what looks like the remnants of a WWII gun emplacement.
It's such a shame that, as you will see, today was wasted on nonsense next to substance and the incompetent execution of anything approaching the 6Ps. Instead, you've got fifteen minutes here — make the most of it.
The camper trailer we saw in the previous photo turned out to be parked at an old homestead / mining camp.
Taken at Rammamere Heath. This mining be was using the grass to clean itself.
I seem to have lost my diffuser so had to bodge something for the day. It didn't work too well sadly so I really struggle with lighting.
This more mining in the Red Mountain Townsite. I believe the the Red Mountain you see is #2, which would make it the middle one of the 3 Red Mountains.
One of the things that is so great for me of over 25 years of driving in the San Juans, I always find something new ever year. I only discovered last year that I could drive in this area.
This morning, I did an interview for Border TV news. I have been involved in the ‘Galloway Against Mining’ campaign. As part of that, I wrote a short Fairy Tale to highlight the exploratory mining that has been taking place in the villages of Blackcraig, Stronord and Palnure, close to where we live. I have been sending it out to various actors and authors with Local connections. Dame Joanna Lumley replied and sent me a recording of herself reading it. You can listen to it from the following link:
soundcloud.com/merv-williams-448266892/billy-and-the-evil...
The mining began in the 1880s, initially for gold and silver but predominately zinc during later stages of its operation. The mine closed in 1984 and became an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund site. After the closure of the mine and the abandonment of Gilman, a 235-acre (0.95 km2) area, which included 8 million tons of mine waste, were designated a Superfund site by the EPA and placed on the National Priorities List in 1986. The mine had been owned by the New Jersey Zinc Company, in its later years a subsidiary of Gulf+Western. Viacom International was identified by the EPA as the successor in interest to the mine.[3] According to the EPA, the mining operations left large amounts of arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, and zinc in the soil, and led to large fish kills in the Eagle River and threatened drinking water in the town of Minturn downstream on the Eagle River. The clean-up plan, implemented beginning in 1988 included plugging and flooding the Eagle Mine, collecting and treating mine and ground water in a new treatment plant, as well as removing, treating and capping the mine waste products.
I build this for LegoIdeas Activity.
Here is a link: Space Mining Rover
And it fits for Febrovery also.
On the road to Coober Pedy, known as the "Opal Capital of the World" with its underground "dugout" homes, tours, diverse accommodation and even churches....
Where am I from? Colax. Ordinary mining colony. There are dozens of them. Not a perfect place, but it could be worse. Atmosphere is inert, put pressure is normal. So oxygen mask is your best friend there. It’s quite cool place: 10-15C at day, just above zero at night. Rocks, sand and dust everywhere. And iron ore. Goode one. It’s only reason for colony to exist. Ore is quite unique; it’s very reach and doesn’t need much refining. The whole subsector gets iron from here. Plus a bit of extra rare metals. Colax isn’t old colony, everything works perfect. Most of industrial processes are automated. So there are not many workers. It will change in future when machines will start to break. More workers to support equipment, more equipment to support life of workers. You understand. But now it’s fine. Mines are in good condition, metal factory too. Sometimes some issues happen in spaceport, but it is normal. Usually it’s quite there, only a few shuttles arrive per week. But when a large cargo ship appears on orbit, it’s total mess. Such ships can’t land due to their size, so small orbital shuttles are used. Lots of them. But number of landing pads is limited. Spaceport works non-stop for several days to process cargo. And if only somebody mixes up container…
This entire mountain of coal will be loaded into the waiting hopper cars before the day is done.
All photos taken on the Rosebud Mining Co. site are with permission.
Taken mid morning on this sunny yet cold day as this female was slowly emerging from her nest entrance . For this shot I was able to set my camera up on my tripod at ISO 200 F18 and patiently waited 45 mins for her to emerge allowing me this portrait.
I really don't know anything about this photo -- no idea when it was taken, or where ...
It does look pretty bleak -- but I think this is what the mining camps looked like in eastern Utah at the time ...
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To the best of my knowledge, most of the photos in this Flickr album were taken by my grandmother, Mabel Yourdon, during the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Most of them depict scenes of everyday life in mining camps and small towns near the Utah-Colorado border. Some of them show hunting, fishing, and camping trips in unspecified parts of the American west. It appears that a few of them were taken in southern California, when Mabel and her husband Ike traveled out there to visit relatives.
I have no idea what kind of camera Mabel used for these photos, nor what kind of film. There probably wasn’t that much variety available in the 1920s, and she was not a “professional” photographer. So it may have been a Brownie and whatever B/W film Kodak was selling at the time.
My stepfather, Ray Yourdon, was born in 1922; and his older brother, Marvin, was born two years before that. You’ll see photos of Ray and Marvin when they were young boys, when they were in high school, and when they went off to join the Navy and the Marines to fight in World War II.
Somewhere around 2005, I asked Ray if he could tell me the details of some of the photos; where possible, I have included those details in the notes for the photos. Some of the photos obviously evoked pleasant memories, and I heard stories about minor day-to-day events in his life that I had never heard before. But we rarely got through more than a few pictures before he ran out of energy; and so many of the photos have no explanation at all.
At this point, my parents and grandparents are all gone. I have cousins who grew up in the same area where these photos were taken, and one or two of them are still in that area. They may be able to fill in a few of the details; otherwise, you’ll just have to accept these photos as a glimpse of what life was like nearly a hundred years ago ...
On a tour of old mine's with the stuff around the engine that was used to raise and lower stuff from the hole. This was in a family but had decided to Boulder County, Colorado to take this over - it's on the historical list.
Entrance to the Blue Bird mine.
Over 140 years ago prospectors in the scrappy mining boomtown of Caribou were buzzing with You can still see the bunkhouse dating back to at least 1877 and a stone caretaker's house that was built when mining resumed after the Great Depression. Several other structures, outhouse, mine entrance, chicken coop, can also be seen. That bunkhouse must have looked awful inviting after a 10 hour day in a mine shaft.news of the discovery of a nearby silver vein. Back in 1871 some said the ore was running six thousand dollars a ton. The mine was active for over 90 years finally closing in early 1960’s. In the early 1900s the narrow gauge train brought visitors up the Switzerland Trail to have an outing in this quiet meadow for picnics, wildflower collecting, and sightseeing. The miners' bunkhouse was converted into a boarding house, catering to tourists until the Switzerland Trail stopped running in 1919.
I'm very pleased with what's turning up in our Staffordshire garden. We moved last autumn and I was wondering what would be around this spring.
I was mowing the grass today and spotted a little tumulus of excavated soil on the lawn; like a mini-volcano. I recognised this as a mining bee nest hole; marked it and kept a check on it during the afternoon. It wasn't long before this head appeared.
There's not much to see, but I reckon this is a female Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva). Hopefully I'll get some shots of the complete individual before long. I think it's one of our prettiest mining bees!
[Update: I did get a shot of the complete individual and surprise, surprise - it's not Andrena fulva but Andrena haemorrhoa! I should have known. Andrena fulva have much darker hairs on the face.]
I have been building mining equipment and since I started with LEGO in 2008. All of them have been taken apart, but for the last 1.5 year, i have been building them again. Some are my own designs and some are based on/or copies of others.
A quick mobile phone snapshot.
All models 1/40 scale
The Bucyrus 495HR² is a rebuild of the 2 Cat 7495 I did in the past. Powered by:
2 power functions XL for drive
2 power functions XL for hoist
1 power function for crowd mechanism
2 power function M for slewing
1 power function m for the bucket door.
2 9V motors for the access staircase left and right
Working floodlights and flashlights
Powered by 2 rechargeable PF battery boxes and 3 Sbricks
The walking dragline is a model built using photos of Red Jack Ryan's Marion 7200 on Brickshelf. Since Marion has been taken over by Bucyrus I thought I could build the model in the livery of Bucycrus, so White/Dark red
One Sbrick and 1 Rechargeble battery box
The Liebherr T282 is based on the chassis of the Cat dump truck of Designer Han
powered by one XL PF motor for drive
1 PF servo for steering
2 PF M motors for the dump bed
1 rechargeable battery box and 1 Sbrick
The cat bulldozer is a model based on the instructions of Efferman. I took out the inner gears and replaced everything with circuit cube motors. It can now drive and raise/lower the blade by 3 Circuit Cube motors and 1 Circuit cube battery box
The Liebherr 9800 is built with a little help from Beat Felber. Thanks for sharing your turntable design. I also based my boom and bucket on his Liebherr R 994. All motors are in the supper structure. Drive goes through the turntable.
Drive: 2 powered up xl motors
Boom: 1 powered up xl motors
Stick: 1 powered up m motor
Moving bucket: 1 powered up m motor
Clamshell: 1 aliexpress micro motor.
Powered by 2 buwizz 3.0 units
Working flood lights and 3 orange flash lights
Nevadaville, Colorado - an up close view of the structure of previous photo and I always thought that space under it at ground level was more that just the level the structure. With a population of bout 4000.
Nevadaville started in 1859, soon after John H. Gregory found the first lode gold in what is now Colorado. At the time, the townsite was in western Kansas Territory. The town grew to house the miners working the Burroughs lode and the Kansas lode. The population was predominantly Irish.[1]