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Taken in Cripple Creep, Colorado.
By 1900 there were over 500 mines operating in the Cripple Creek district. The great wealth coming out of the mines turned Cripple Creek into a bustling and prosperous city of over 35,000 people. 75 Saloons and numerous brothels parted miners from their pay. A stock market was created to match remote investors with local mining interests. Cripple Creek was also the site of some of the worst labor conflicts in American history, culminating in the state militia being called in to break strike in 1903.
The city population was 1,189 at the 2010 United States Census.
This tawny mining bee was one of a huge number nesting in my garden last year. They build their nests in the ground and can find the entrances even through long grass.
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.
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.
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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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!
A small group of tiny male Slender Mining bees (Lasioglossum calceatum) settle down these lavender seed heads each evening, spend the night, and leave each morning to continue their search for pollen.
These small, ground nesting solitary bees usually nest in steep banks, and are found throughout most of Britain and Ireland. They visit a wide variety of flowers, and are usually seen from April to October.
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Disused mining dynamo inside buildings of shutted down coal mine, 2021
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Greetigs for trip to Mazzy, Mario, Adi!
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]
First Cymru's Port Talbot depot based Alexander Dennis E20D 44627 passes the Cefn Coed Colliery Museum in the Dulais Valley when operating a southbound journey on Service X8 (Banwen-Seven Sisters-Crynant-Neath-Swansea) in June 2020.
The service has been operating at a reduced frequency since
early April 2020 just between the Upper Dulais Valley and Neath, and the E20Ds are now the usual allocation.
The museum tells the story of coal mining at the Cefn Coed Colliery, once the deepest anthracite coal mine in the world. Cefn Coed was one of the most dangerous coalmines in Wales where many men lost their lives in dangerous working conditions gaining the colliery the nickname of ‘The Slaughterhouse’. Despite this, well worth a visit.
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.
Decaying and colourful winding wheel caught in fortunate light during a visit to the King Edward tin mine, Camborne, Cornwall.
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.
At an altitude of 10,000 feet, Leadville was the second largest city in Colorado. It boasted over 100 saloons and gambling places, multiple daily and weekly newspapers, and 36 brothels. Tabor's presence seemed to be everywhere.[13] He opened the Tabor Opera House in Leadville, bought luxury items for his wife, Augusta, and established a private army that he used for protection of his holdings and as a force against striking miners. He spent his money lavishly, mostly on his own entertainment—drinking, gambling and frequenting brothels. In 1880, Augusta moved away from him to live in Denver while Tabor enjoyed himself in Leadville.[12] A Denver newspaper columnist described him as "Stoop-shouldered; ambling gait ...black hair, inclined to baldness ....dresses in black; magnificent cuff buttons of diamonds and onyx ...worth 8 million dollars."[13] Historian Judy Nolte Temple writes that it "seemed inevitable that the prettiest woman in the mining West would eventually meet the richest man.
Coal mining deaths, UK. The total is probably thousands higher as the mines inspectors only started to list mining deaths yearly when they were established in 1850. The figures pre 1850 came from press accounts and parish registers where the nature of death was not commonly recorded. During WW2 5000 miners died at work
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.
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EMCO 303 departing Area 1 with 9 loaded sidedumps. This unit was repainted in the late 60s and renumbered in the early 70s to 7203. Nov 1967,
This place is on the other side of this narrow road from the Mammoth Mine which was on Mammoth Hill opposite the National Mine - on the same side of the hill. Mammoth Mine work the Lode that measured over 6000 ft making it one of the longest veins of gold ore. Tailings flow down hill and this road looks like it was cut through them so while I'm hunting up that other place I'll check for sure of this area. The Mammoth mine over looked Central City.
Michigan Bar on the American River, Folsom, Ca. Dec. 2017. Gold mining started here in the mid 19th century and continued into the 20th, and the region has mile after mile of water-polished rocks, places where all the soil and smaller rocks were washed away. Brush or scrub forests have covered some of it, but a century or more later plenty is still bare rocks.