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The Unitron workers mined crystals at this galactic outpost and shipped it off via monorail. Inspired by the Unitron 6991 Monorail Transport Base, built for the Space Jam 2021 12x12 challenge.
This is the route of a standard gauge railway rope-worked incline built to carry coal from the Albert and Blackcroft Pits of Poynton Collieries down to a coal yard on the turnpike road where transshipment to carts for Stockport took place. The isolated line was built in the early 1840s and after the main line connection was made via the Prince's Incline in 1845 it was abandoned by 1848. Although abandoned for over 170 years the earthworks remain very obvious and are now used as a pleasant footpath.
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.
Date Taken: June 1, 2015
Basic Details:
Operator: Taganito Mining, Corp.
Fleet Number: N / A
Classification: Non-Air-Conditioned Service Shuttle
Seating Configuration: 2x2 Seats
Seating Capacity: 59 Passengers
Body:
Coachbuilder: Del Monte Motor Works, Inc.
Body Model: Del Monte DM11
Chassis:
Chassis Model: Isuzu FVR34P
VIN / WMI Code: PABFVR34SLQB
Layout: Front-Longitudinally-Mounted Engine Rear-Wheel Drive
Suspension: Leaf Springs Suspension
Engine:
Engine Model: Isuzu 6HK1-TCN / GM Duramax LG4 7800
Cylinder Displacement: 7.8 Liters
Cylinder Configuration: Straight-6
Engine Aspiration: Turbocharged & Intercooled
Max. Power Output: 240 hp @ 2,200 rpm
Peak Torque Output: 706 N.m @ 1,400 rpm
Transmission:
Type: Manual Transmission
Gears: 6-Speed Forward, 1-Speed Reverse
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Take a look at Victor and the nearby gold mine from Google earth. The mining operation is to the north of the city. www.google.com/maps/place/Victor,+CO/@38.7094974,-105.145...
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The safety history of coal mines, especially underground mines anywhere in the world has not been great. Thousands of miners have perished, probably hundreds of thousands all round the world. And not just coal either. Underground mining is an inherently dangerous business.
Queensland has not been immune by any means from these sad events.
The Moura-Kianga Mine in Central Queensland has experienced three tragic events and memorials exist both in the town and out at the mine sites themselves. After 1994 when the disaster shown in this shot occurred, underground mining ceased at this locality although it still occurs elsewhere in Queensland. All mining at this metallurgical mine site is now open cut.
In respect for the dead, while coal mining these days is very controversial, I ask you to keep those comments for another shot to come next week if you feel that way inclined. We won't make this one political or environmental. These men just went to work for their families and didn't come home that day or ever.
Moura No. 2 Mine disaster, 7 August 1994 - 11 dead
Other disasters at these mines
Kianga No. 1 Mine disaster, 20 September 1975 - 13 dead
Moura No. 4 Mine disaster, 16 July 1986 - 12 dead
Micrandrena is a subgenus of mining bees, with some 60 species. These are small black bees, commonly known as Pygmy mining bees.
Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC).
Do you yearn for the mines?
These four new mining items are at WLRP, opening 2/4!
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Crystal Hand Lamp - 5 shiny metals and 1 worn iron (shown), 6 crystal colors, and black or brown leather wrap on HUD. Hold left or right hand, plus 1 LI decor version.
Legendary Pickaxe - 5 shiny metals/haft and 1 worn iron/wood haft version, brown or black leather wrap. Tint gems on top and hilt with the HUD. Bottom diamond hidable with HUD. Hold left or right shoulder plus 1 LI decor version.
Mine Entrance - A grand structure to enter mines, delves, and dungeons! 30 LI with the massive doors, 19 LI without. About 6.5x6.5x3.5 m . Sign on front can be removed. Plenty of space to pack rocks around it to sink into a cliffside as shown.
Mining Carts & Rails - Includes 9 load types plus empty. Each 2 LI. Includes rail set 1-2 LI per piece. Several prefabs included with varying LI. 180 turn is 8 LI.
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While in Nevada City Montana, we stopped at a place where you can pan for gold. This whole city is a western-ghost town and is full of old relics and antiques. Instead of panning for gold, I took a walk-a-bout and found all sorts of old treasures.
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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 building front just stood out to me. 43004 heads north on 2P08 08:50 Penzance to Plymouth, 43189 was on the rear.
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Holman was Camborne's, and indeed Cornwall's largest manufacturer of industrial equipment. Holman played a part in World War II making the Polish designed 20mm Polsten gun, similar to the Oerlikon but simpler to build and use. It also produced the Holman Projector for the Royal Navy.
At its height Holmans was spread over three sites within Camborne, employing some three and half thousand people.
Cornish mining is renowned worldwide. Alongside the mining industry there evolved an industry manufacturing specialised mining equipment. Holman's founder, Nicholas Holman started a boiler works in 1801.
The company expanded to develop subsidiary companies in centres of mining all over the world and at one stage approximately 80% of products were exported.
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1881-The brothers John Henry and James Miners Holman, had taken over running the business from their father John. They were offered the designs of a new rock drill by a James McCulloch. the brothers filed a joint patent with McCulloch, and began to manufacture the new drill. It became known as the "Cornish Rock Drill", and achieved great commercial success.
1882-The rock drill was at work at Dolcoath, Tincroft, East Pool, South Crofty, at Falmouth Docks and in mines in South Wales. The demand grew rapidly.
1896-More than 1,000 Cornish rock drills were in use on The South African Rand alone. By the turn of the 20th century the number had doubled. Most of these drills came from Holman in Camborne.
1910-The company took first and third prizes in a World Rock Drilling Contest, sponsored by the South African Chamber of Commerce.
Later, the Holman Silver 303 Airleg was used all over the world for mine development.
As well as the rock drills, the company also produced drill rigs and developed 'down the hole' drill primarily for quarrying. The company developed a hydraulic breaker, known as the Holbuster, but was ahead of its time and it was not a commercial success. Later developed by others, it is now a common sight.
The first successful drills were the piston type, or "reciprocators." The drill steel piston and chuck moved together and reciprocated. In Leyner's hammer drill the steel was held loosely in a chuck attached to the cylinder itself, while the piston inside the cylinder reciprocated, striking blows on the blunt end of the drill steel. The hammer drill was lighter, speedier, and used less air than the reciprocating drill.
Leyners earlier drills used a blast of air blown through a hollowed or channelled drill steel to keep the drill holes clear of rock chippings: these drills, however, raised too much dust. To overcome this Leyner introduced water along the drill together with the blast of air. This machine soon ousted the previous one, and was taken up by the Holman factory on a large scale.
In 1882 Gilmer & Salisbury concentrated on the dominant structure in Bayhorse, the mill. It mimicked natures gravitational pull to move rocks through the mill and down the hillside thru a water wash. The wooden mill buildings wer painted with red mineral paint to help preserve and act as fire retardant.
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.
Mining ivy flowers.
Colletes hederae, a species of plasterer bee belonging to the family Colletidae subfamily Colletinae. It "was recorded as new to Britain in 2001 when Ian Cross discovered specimens at Langton Matravers in Dorset. Since then, the bee has spread across much of southern England (as far north as Shropshire, Staffordshire & Norfolk) and into south Wales." [BWARS]
By 1900, the Cripple Creek mining district was home to 500 mines. By 1910, it had produced 22.4 million ounces of gold. Between 1894 and 1902, around 50,000 people lived in the mining district with 35,000 in the town of Cripple Creek alone making it the fourth most populous town in Colorado at the time. The seven adjoining boom towns includes Victor, Gillette, Alban, Independence, Goldfield, Elton, and Cameron—all of which were connected by rail. During the boom, there were 150 saloons, 49 grocery stores, 25 restaurants, four department stores, 12 casinos, 34 churches, a business college, a county school district with 19 schools and 118 teachers educating almost 4,000 students, 90 doctors, 40 stockbrokers, 15 newspapers, 9 assay offices, 10 barber shops, 72 lawyers, 20 houses of ill-repute, over 300 prostitutes, 26 one room cribs, and several opium dens.
Disused mining dynamo inside buildings of shutted down coal mine, 2021
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Plaubel Makina 67, Nikkor 80mm f2.8
Kodak Gold 200, C41 self-developed Tetenal Kit
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.
Decaying and colourful winding wheel caught in fortunate light during a visit to the King Edward tin mine, Camborne, Cornwall.
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.