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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]
The camper trailer we saw in the previous photo turned out to be parked at an old homestead / mining camp.
Three generations of Terex mining trucks.
From left to right:
- Terex 33-19 Titan. A truck built only once in 1973 with a then record-breaking payload of 350 tons (318 tonnes).
- Terex 33-11C. Produced between 1981 and 1986, the 85 ton (77 tonne) hauler was one of the popular machines in the Terex mining truck range.
- Terex Unit Rig MT 6300AC. Introduced in 2008, the 400 ton (363 tonne) truck is nowadays part of Caterpillar's range of diesel-electric mining trucks as the 798 AC.
Former SAR Class 11 2-8-2 (built North British 1904) now operating for the South Witbank Mining Company, pictured outside the loco shed at South Witbank Mine - c.1978.
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© 2023 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm monochrome negative.
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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.
I build this for LegoIdeas Activity.
Here is a link: Space Mining Rover
And it fits for Febrovery also.
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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.
The copper mines at Røros operated from 1644 to 1977. They continue to be the lifeblood of the town but now purely as a tourist attraction.
I think that this is Andrena scotica. I should have realised more quickly that it was likely to be stylopised (parasitised by a strepsipteran fly) as it was not behaving normally. It was sitting in the sun in the open and didn't fly away when I approached. I put my finger in front of it and it climbed on.
I noticed the slightly swollen abdomen as I photographed it, and guessed the situation. I was able to position my finger to see the bee's rear end and there was the parasite protruding. I got a couple of shots before she flew off.
This is an adult female Stylops parasite. They look more like a flattened larva and have no eyes, legs or antennae. They do not leave the bee. The males (even though of bizarre appearance) are more typical and emerge from the bee and fly of looking for another stylopised bee so that they can mate with the female parasite.
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 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.
Goliath, operated by North Central Positronics, holds a steady orbit high above the Earth's atmosphere. A public/private venture (code for Military Industrial Complex,) she builds and maintains military hardware as well as long distance mining barges. The decision to assemble large spacecraft in orbit was economic, since they don't need to expend high levels of energy to break Earth's gravity. Goliath keeps her personnel in regular rotation as well as acquires supplies from the earth's surface using more traditional shuttle technology.
I'll post a full gallery after I build all of the support ships. If anyone else would like to try photoshopping this image, I'd be happy to send you the file of the ship cut out with no background.
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.
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 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.
Just another day of mining in these cold and damp caves.
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(I'm a dwarf diggy diggy hole)
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.
Nový zámok (literally "New Castle") is a castle in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia. The castle is located on a hill south of the city center at an altitude of 630m above sealevel, marking the highest point of the city center.
After the defeat of the Hungarian troops by the Ottoman army in the battle of Mohács in 1526, defences in more northern places in Hungary needed to be reinforced with new defensive structures. Shortly after the northern mining region started defence preparations as the region was a great resource of precious metals at that time. In 1541 the town council decided on the fortification of Selmeczbánya.New Castle – a national cultural monument – is a six-floor Renaissance building with four bastions. It was constructed in 1564–1571 as a watch tower during the Ottoman wars. Because of its dominant position, it was also used as the town's live clock (exact time was announced every quarter of an hour on a trumpet).
Three Legged Cross, Dorset
Andrena sp. (unidentified)
HYMENOPTERA > APOCRITA (Bees, Wasps and Ants) >
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Mining is a global industry that underpins industrial development in many regions. It is a key sector not only because it is the source of essential raw materials, but also because it potentially leads to economic and social development, often in remote and poorly developed areas, due to its importance in national accounts, level of employment and influence of international markets, etc. Mining activities can also cause severe environmental degradation because of its location (almost all conceivable places, often with insufficient infrastructure), size and timescale. Potential negative impacts of mining operations include: * Energy and water consumption * Air, water and land pollution * Landscape alteration * Soil erosion * Destruction of river banks * Health & safety nuisance.
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The Callington Copper mine.
Settlement spread across the well-watered Adelaide Hills following a number of Special Surveys in 1839. The financial situation of the state was saved by the discovery of a significant copper mine at Kapunda in 1842, followed by the great mine at Burra in 1845, and then the Callington mine in 1849. The last big copper mine in the 19th century was at Moonta/Kadina in 1869. Callington was laid out as a township in 1849 by local landowners. At about the same time the government announced a survey to build a new road to Wellington on the River Murray and that it would cross the Bremer River where Callington now stands. The Bremer was named after Sir James Bremer founder of the Port Essington settlement in the Northern Territory. Around the time when the first Callington land was offered for sale John Kiernan, whilst driving a dray over a rocky outcrop near the proposed town, noticed copper ore where the wheel of the dray crushed the stone. Copper mining began shortly after that discovery! A smelter was established here and the town began.
Soon there were five mining companies apart from the Bremer Mining Company operating here. Shafts were sunk up to 190 metres (620feet) deep chasing the lodes of copper. Cornish miners settled in the town which officially began in 1850. Before then the area was simply known as Bremer. The original Bremer lode was easy to mine and profitable as the ore was near the surface. The deep shafts ran into water problems. This prompted the Bremer Mining Company to sell out to the Worthing Mining Company in 1857. They installed a large steam pump house to remove water from the shafts. It arrived in 1859 from its former mine site at Hallett Cove. The engine took two years to be fully installed and it then pumped 500,000 gallons of water a day from the mine.
Alfred Hallett carefully managed the mine. He was well respected and under his control the mine at Callington had a reputation for having the lowest costs of production of any mine in SA. Yet the Worthing Mining Company never paid any dividends to its shareholders despite 15 years of continuous operations. In 1870 the company went into liquidation. Before this time around 150 men and boys were employed in the mine and up to 300 tons of copper ore per month was extracted, smelted and then transported to Port Adelaide. The slump in world copper prices in 1870 finished off the mine (and at that same time the great Burra mine closed too.) For 16 months there was no activity in Callington until the Bremer Mining Company took over again in 1872. In the meantime the shafts had filled with water. It took seven months of continuous pumping to clear the shafts! The mine operated for just two years and closed for ever in 1875. Callington at that time had a population of 235. By 1881 this had dropped to just 148.
Many of the buildings of the 1850s and 1860s still remain. Look for:
1. The Flour Mill on the river. Opened in 1858 and made of limestone with brick quoins and timber window frames and casement windows. The Thomas brothers operated the mill for just a few months. It has been a residence off and on since 1859. It was extensively updated and restored in 1975.
2. Erskine Bridge. This government bridge opened in 1890 with elegant sandstone piers, steel trusses and a concrete deck. Mr Erskine was the local MP at that time. It was re-decked by the Highways department in 1970 and had major repairs done in 1979. The first bridge on this site opened in 1874.The last major flood down the Bremer River was in 1992. The Bremer River rises near Mt Torrens and flows down from Callington to Langhorne Creek and Lake Alexandrina. The Erskine Bridge is on the register of the National Estate.
3. Former Methodist Church. The former Methodist Church was built in 1862 for the Cornish miners in a commanding position overlooking the river. It has been a private residence for many years.
4. Police Station. At the far end of the town is the police station and lockup. It was built in 1867 of a standard SA design for that era. It has sandstone windowsills and door surrounds. It was built in the classical style with good symmetry, a double front door entrance and a nice fanlight above the doors with VR for Victoria Regina plastered into the walls. The paired timber bracket supports for the roof indicate that the original roof was slate and heavy. In the rear yard are the cells, stables and a toilet with a semicircular headed entrance.
5. St Peter’s Lutheran Church. Callington always provided services for the local Lutheran German farmers. This Lutheran Church opened in 1864 as a fine blue stone and mortar church in the Gothic style with a cross shape. The central roof bell tower was added later. The interior has a gambrel roof in wood. Note the blind window above the porch entrance. In recent years the whole church has been cement rendered spoiling the appearance.
6. Callington Hotel. The first licensed hotel opened in 1851. This current building probably dates from the 1870s. The publican used to maintain a good historic photograph collection on the bar walls but the hotel is now closed.
7. Primary School. Like most SA schools it dates from just after the passing of the 1875 Free, Compulsory and Secular Education Act. The building was erected in 1886 but the first town school operated from 1858. The government took over that school in 1873. The building is unusual in that a porch was attached to the schoolroom under a veranda roof. The school faced closure in the 1980s but now has a growing enrolment and new classrooms because of Kanmantoo mine.
8. Explosives Hut. This amazing small round building was erected in the 1850s, probably by Worthing Mining Company. Its walls are of limestone and lime mortar with a roof that tapers to the apex with two different rates of slope. The internal supports for the dome roof are all wooden but the main thrust of the weight of the roof is on the external walls. It is on the register of the National Estate. It is likely the rounded shape was meant to implode if there was a small explosion.
9. Pump House or Engine room and chimney. This was built during the last phase of mining from 1872 to 1875. An earlier Cornish chimney and engine house was built in 1858 -1859 closer to the Explosives Hut.
10. Chimney Stack. This was erected in 1874 in the round Cornish style of mine chimney stacks. It was built for the boiler which provided steam to the pump house. It can be seen beyond the Explosives Hut. Another chimney stack was built in 1859 -60.
11. Quadrant Engine Pool Settling Tanks. These were built in late 1863. The circular tanks were divided into four areas or quadrants but little remains now.
12. Cottages in Montefiore Street. Some fine 1850s cottages still remain. Notice the decorative cut outs on the veranda ends of the cottages near the turn off to the Methodist Church. The cottages are in Montefiore Street but who was he? We all know Montefiore Hill with Light’s Vision in North Adelaide. Jacob Montefiore was one of the original SA Company Commissioners in London. He was an English Jew born in Jamaica of Italian ancestry! He was a friend of Colonel William Light and helped him prepare the Rapid and the Cygnet for their voyages to SA in 1836. Montefiore visited Adelaide twice in 1843 and 1854 whilst on his way to visit his brother, a wealthy banker in Sydney.