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California (USA)
Plaubel Makina 67, Nikkor 80mm f2.8
Kodak Gold 200, C41 self-developed Tetenal Kit
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.]
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]
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 ...
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Three Legged Cross, Dorset
Andrena sp. (unidentified)
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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.
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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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Lawrence Hislop
Andrena is the largest genus of bees found in the UK, in a diverse range of sizes from the tiny 'mini-miners' in the subgenus Micrandrena to species the size of honeybees. They all have 3 submarginal cells in the forewing, and the females have pollen-baskets on their hind-legs and the sides of the propodaeum at the rear end of the thorax.
Identification of some species is difficult. Male and females are often different in appearance, and are keyed out separately - and therefore you should always record sex in your comments for your record. Nests are usualy made in soil, sometimes singly but often in colonies - but none are true social bees.
The nests are attacked by many different cleptoparasites and parasitoids, including including Nomad bees (Nomada), Blood bees (Sphecodes), Bee-flies (Bombylius), Conopid flies in the Myopa genus (e.g.see M testacea) and the Anthomyiidae flies Leucophora. Species are frequently parasitised by Stylops, in the order Strepsiptera - the pupae of the parasite may be seen as a triangular structure protruding from between the abdominal tergites of a bee.
Decaying and colourful winding wheel caught in fortunate light during a visit to the King Edward tin mine, Camborne, Cornwall.
It isn’t to say that the idea of building a flume was so crazy. Flumes for placer mining were common at the time. Flume construction methods had been used in California for years and required only minimal skills. To cross arroyos and washes, water could be funneled through flume boxes supported by trestles. But in the canyons of the Dolores and San Miguel Rivers, minimal engineering skill was not enough. This flume would have to be ten miles long, and to complete the entire route at the proper gradient, the Flume would have to cling to seven miles of sheer rock walls, at times suspended hundreds of feet above the river.
A male Andrena mining bee, emerging from a nest hole in our Staffordshire garden this morning.
It's likely to be a Buffish Mining Bee (Andrena nigroaenea). There's a small aggregation of nest holes of this species in this part of the garden.
Tubular boilers were popular in mining districts. Their name came from the long tubes running the horizontal length inside a cylindrical-shaped boiler. Inside the boiler the tubes were surrounded by water. Below the boiler a fire was kept burning. The heat and smoke from the fire was drawn through the long tubes—heating the water—and continued on, rising up through the smokestack. This process created steam very efficiently and powered mining and milling machines.
Exact Mining Services Kenworth T904 hauls a CAT 777D Dump Truck from Whyalla on-route to Telfer Goldmine in Western Australia.
Mining bee (Andrena) foraging on Prairie Crocus flower (Ammone patens)now called Prairie Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla nuttalliana).. Same individual as photo 6261. Hidden Valley, Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada. 30 April 2023
This is a female Buffish Mining-bee (Andrena nigroaenea) emerging from her nest burrow. Did I have to go far to find it? No; there's several nest burrows between the paving at the base of our front door step. Very convenient!