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Wide variety of historic mining equipment & relics of the 1900 era.
Miner’s hut which was the home of the Bing Chew family, descendents of original Chinese immigrants;
A replica of a Chinese dwelling has been constructed in the gardens of the True Blue Visitor Information Centre Museum. Descendants of the original Chinese settlers still live in Croydon and surrounds today.
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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.
The camper trailer we saw in the previous photo turned out to be parked at an old homestead / mining camp.
One of the few remaining 'Eagle' liveried 6000 class units, 6011 leads CF4409 and 6022 north out of Cerlewis with an empty coal train.
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.
More detail viewed large.
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.
Disused mining dynamo inside buildings of shutted down coal mine, 2021
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Greetigs for trip to Mazzy, Mario, Adi!
This is a parasitised Andrena Mining Bee that's been attacked by Stylops, one of the Strepsiptera or twisted-wing flies. I think the bee is probably Andrena scotica (the Chocolate Mining Bee) but the effect of being stylopised gives the bee an odd inter-sex appearance.
The mature female form of the parasitic fly can be seen protruding out between the abdominal segments. The females look more like a flattened larva and have no eyes, legs, wings or antennae. They do not leave the bee.
NB: The Strepsiptera are not true flies!
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]
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.
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.
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
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…
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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