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Colony Field Report --- Med-Lab --- Dr. Wormoth --- 2.506.127
The Earth Mining Commission had finally taken control of the element harvesting project on Mars after the Estonians had given up their interest in the venture. We worked diligently for months, rebuilding the facilities and converting the ergonomics for human usage. After the retrofit was completed, we continued work on a massive vein of Plegaltonium, a mineral native to Mars, and began our project.
Work proceeded well into the New Year, and only a few minor setbacks occurred. It was to be expected; the risks were written into their contracts, that some miners would perish during the operations. We also prepared for the inevitable psychological stressors that would present in the wives and children living on the colony. Some of them had never before left their home state, let alone the planet Earth.
Something has changed during the past three weeks however. At first the miners were coming back from their operations, complaining of relentless fatigue, nausea, even momentary loss of vision. Two harvesters collided last week when one of the drivers became blinded. Then the discoloration quickly set in, their skin turning a foul rust color, brittle and flaking off. We’ve lost ten miners this week alone, all with the same symptoms.
It now seems to be spreading inside the facilities, even with the constant use of the decontamination rooms. Lieutenant Brownstone’s wife just lost her vision yesterday and collapsed to the floor, dead within an hour or so. Her body was placed in a quarantine chamber and still awaits autopsy. The speed at which this is now spreading, whatever it is, seems to be on an exponential curve.
After appealing to the Mining Commission today, they still won’t stop operations at this time. I fear, at this point it wouldn’t matter, as we seem to be.
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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]
The Lanyon Quoit mining building rests in the Cornish Countryside of Lanyon Quoit on a misty morning before a lovely sunny afternoon.
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Plaubel Makina 67, Nikkor 80mm f2.8
Kodak Gold 200, C41 self-developed Tetenal Kit
The Arigna Mining Experience is a unique community inspired initiative which records 400 years of mining history in the area. Coal mining provided much needed work in a region of poor agricultural land. Regular employment was uncommon in the province of Connaught in the 19th and 20th centuries, and it is often said; “There was money in Arigna when there was no money elsewhere”. The industry sustained the community of Arigna down through the centuries and helped them through the horrors of the famine years (1845 to 1852).
The possibility of developing a mining visitor centre in Arigna, Co. Roscommon first emerged when the last coal mines closed in 1990. This development was driven by the local community with the major support from a number of agencies within County Roscommon. Arigna LEADER was the first advocate of the development and secured the necessary finance to initiate the project. Funding followed from the Arigna Enterprise Fund and the Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, which approved a grant of €950,000. This financing brought the project to completion. The development, as it stands, represents a total investment of over €1.5 million, including over €250,000 raised by the local community.
This male mining-bee was on a dandelion by the hedgerow that runs by our front garden in Staffordshire. It's not a species that I regularly see in the garden, but I think it might be the Sandpit Mining Bee (Andrena barbilabris). There's a nesting aggregation on a sandy footpath locally. I seem to remember photographing one in the garden in 2015.
This is my 14th garden bee species of 2016!
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.
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
The camper trailer we saw in the previous photo turned out to be parked at an old homestead / mining camp.
Decaying and colourful winding wheel caught in fortunate light during a visit to the King Edward tin mine, Camborne, Cornwall.
EMCO 4213, 4221, 4224, 4219 & 4210 departing the plantsite headed for Taconite Harbor with 120 cars of pellets. About MP 2.5 Aug 11, 1980.
The Goldfields Mining Centre is a very well known tourist attraction. Here you can see a replica of an old Chinese mining village and pan for gold.
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.