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This old church, seemingly abandoned, was the Palmer Methodist Church according to the sign on the building. Surprisingly, the bell was still in the tower.There is no other information regarding the historical building, as there are only 449 residents in Palmer, according to a recent census. None of the 449 were seen.
Palmer is near one of the last large mines in the Upper Peninsula, the soon-to-be-deactivated Empire Mine,
The Storwartz mining area was one of Røros Copper Works’ most important mining areas and is a part of World Heritage Røros
Mining Town and the Circumference.
Remains and cultural monuments
The Storwartz mining area is about 4.5 square kilometres in size and includes nine significant mines. Visible in the landscape are remains of mine entrances, piles of waste rock, overhead cable transportation systems, shaft openings, miners’ barracks, managers’ houses, dams, water wheel trenches and an extensive network of water channels.
Underground are many kilometres of mining passageways, transport roads and rails, shafts with hoisting equipment and water pumps. All of these historic and cultural remains above and below ground bear witness to more than 300 years of comprehensive activity and show how mining technology developed over centuries. The story behind this activity is the story of generations of skilled workers and craftsmen who were employed by The Røros Copper Works.
For today's get away, let's try our luck at Lightening Ridge, a small opal mining town in outback New South Wales. Here the landscape is pockmarked with mine shafts, mostly abandoned and crudely covered up with wire mesh or planks of wood. Lightening Ridge is famed for black opals and other gemstones, hot water springs and fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period, 110 million years ago.
I took this sunrise shot using the rickety windlass and bucket as icons of this unique mining town in what seems like the middle of nowhere. Yet Lightening Ridge is a vibrant community of fossickers, fortune seekers, colourful eccentrics and assorted characters as one would find anywhere. There is an optimism in the community, everybody is busy looking for their next lucky strike in this little relic of the wild frontier.
Slag is a by-product of copper smelting. Slegghaugan stands like big mountains and reminds us of an enormous activity through 333 years. If you go to the top, you will get a panoramic view of Røros (Bergstaden). Slegghaugan and the Malmplass area are protected under the Cultural Heritage Act.
Røros is the administrative centre of Røros municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
The mining town of Røros is sometimes called Bergstaden, which means "the rock town", due to its historical copper mining.
The modern-day inhabitants of Røros still work and live in the characteristic 17th- and 18th-century buildings which have led to its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980. Røros has about 80 wooden houses, most of them standing around courtyards. Many retain their dark pitch-log facades, giving the town a medieval appearance.
The New Castle (Nový zámok) is an iconic, white Renaissance fortress and a central dominant feature of the historic mining town of Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia. Towering over the southern part of the town on Frauenberg Hill, this UNESCO World Heritage site structure is unique for its distinct rocket-like shape.
It was built between 1564 and 1571 as a strategic watchtower and defensive stronghold to protect the wealthy silver-mining town from Ottoman (Turkish) invasions.The Name: It is called the "New" castle because the town had already converted its older parish church into a fortress, known today as the Old Castle (Starý zámok). It is also locally referred to as Panenský or Dievčenský hrad (Maiden or Virgin Castle).
After the Ottoman threat passed, it served as a gunpowder store and a fire watchtower. The watchmen acted as a "living clock," blowing a trumpet every quarter-hour and striking a bell on the hour to signal to the townspeople that all was safe
Charleroi – 2019, April 21
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Red Mountain as seen from the mining ghost town of Atolia, California.
Atolia was founded in 1906 and flourished until WWI as the world's largest producer of tungsten.
Waited here about 30 minutes until there was some interesting light and got lucky for a couple of minutes where the sun was just shining on the mountain.
California State historical Park - Bodie Ghost Town selected for the month of June in the 2024 Bodfie Calendar
There was bright sunlight on this late autumn day in Humbug. I was standing in an alleyway looking up at the main drag with the drugstore perched in the distance. For a minute I had a fleeting vision of how simple things used to be.
Humbug CA
Driving in to the small gold rush town of Downieville is aways a delight. The town has changed little in the last 160 years and still has wooden sidewalks in the main part of town. At its peak, during the gold rush era, the town boasted a population of over 5000 people. Today this sleepy little hamlet is home to a mere 282 people. On this morning, not one of them was to be found. We did manage to find a small store that was brewing coffee, but honestly the coffee tasted like it might have brewed during the gold rush era.
This was one of the many stops on my recent 10-day "Travels with Harvey," itinerary.
Downieville CA
St. Charles Saloon in Columbia, California, an old mining town, now a tourist attraction. Ladies and minors are welcome.
Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo was once an industrial and mining town, and the chimneys of the old industrial zone are still one of the town's most notable features.
Garlock, California in Kern County was a source of water for cattlemen in the surrounding desert. Gold was discovered in the nearby mountains in the 1880s, several stamp mills were established in Garlock and the town had a post office. When a railroad was built to a nearby town, miners started crushing ore elsewhere and Garlock was a ghost town by 1907.
Shot the site with my DSLR, pocket camera and cellphone and liked this cellphone pic the best.
One of my favorite places to shoot isn't too far from Las Vegas Nevada in El Dorado canyon, near Nelson in the Mojave desert.
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Shack on the edge of the picturesque semi-ghost town of Randsburg, California, population 69.
Randsburg was a gold mining town settled in the 1890s and once had a population of 2,500. Some locals still mine, but today Randsburg is mostly a charming tourist town.
The town is popular with off-roaders. At least 50 mud-splattered ATVs were parked along two blocks of main street.