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Røros is one of the oldest towns of wooden buildings in Europe and is located on a gently sloping plateau 628 metres above sea level. The city was founded in 1644 when the first copper ore was found in the area, and over the years, Røros became one of the most important mining towns in Norway.
Røros has retained much of its original character. The street pattern and farming properties in the centre of town are the same as were originally constructed in the 1600’s. Due to its authentic wooden buildings and unique character of an early mining town, Røros was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1980.
Rhyolite Ghost Town, Nevada
Camera: Pentax 645z (Medium format digital)
Lens: HD Pentax-DA 645 28-45mm F4.5ED AW SR
Did some night photography in El Dorado Canyon near Nelson, Nevada. Sat in an old pinik Cadillac, set my camera on a tripod . So I took some self portraits
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the gentleman that owns this little antiques shop in run-down shanty, is a very cool character, and only accepts cash and guns for his goods.
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Wells, BC, is a historic mining town in British Columbia's Cariboo region, known as the "Gateway to Barkerville" and Bowron Lake Provincial Park, offering rich history, arts, and outdoor adventures like hiking, skiing, and canoeing amidst stunning mountain scenery. Wells is approximately a two hour drive from Williams Lake.
In January 2015, the City of Broken Hill was included on the National Heritage Register. This register lists 106 other iconic landmarks such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Kakadu National Park, and the Australian Alps. Broken Hill is the first city to be listed. Extensive research and consultation with the Broken Hill community was a key part of the listing.
The National Heritage List is Australia’s pre-eminent heritage list recognising and protecting the nation’s most valued natural, indigenous, and historic heritage sites. Listing is the highest heritage honour in Australia and listed placed receive national attention and benefits from increased domestic and international tourism. Broken Hil has been assessed against the nine National Heritage Criteria, which include historic, aesthetic, and social values, creative and technical achievements, associations with significant peoples, and others.
The following is the Statement of Significance for the City of Broken Hill which was prepared as part of the listing process:
“The City of Broken Hill has outstanding significance to the nation for its role in creating enormous wealth, for its long, enduring and continuing mining operations, and the community’s deep and shared connection with Broken Hill as the isolated city in the desert, its outback landscape, the planned design and landscaping of the town, the regeneration areas and particularly the physical reminders of its mining origins such as the Line of Lode, the barren mullock heaps, tailings, skimps and slagheap escarpment and relict structures. It exhibits historic qualities in its ongoing mining operations since 1883, the current and relict mining infrastructure and its landscape setting. It is significant for its industrial past ….. together with its role as a pioneer in setting occupational health and safety standards.”
“It demonstrates the principal characteristics of a mining town in a remote location with extensive transport infrastructure and administrative connections to three state capitals and as a rare example of a place subject to Australia’s complex Federal system where differing administrative, social and economic influences are expressed in both tangible and intangible forms. It has social significance for its residents as a place of community pride, endurance, and as a remote mining community resilient to major social and economic change, Broken Hill has strong social significance for all Australians as a place where great wealth was created, as well as strong group associations with the Barrier Industrial Council. It exhibits outstanding aesthetic characteristics as a city in an arid desert setting, as the subject of interest for Australian artists, poets, film makers, TV producers and photographers.”
“It has significance as a place where outstanding technical achievement has occurred in refining ore for its minerals including the froth flotation process and the computer controlled on-stream analysis of slurries. Broken Hill is also important as a place of research potential to reveal further information on mineral deposits with its range of complex minerals. It is associated with person of great importance to Australia’s history, including Albert Morris (arid land regeneration), Charls Rasp (discoverer), Herbert Hoover (mining engineer), WL Baillieu, WA Robinson and MAE Mawby (industrialists), GD Delprat (metallurgist), Percy Brookfield and Eugene O’Neill (unionists). Broken Hill’s association with the Barrier Industrial Council as a group is also important.”
“The Broken Hill zinc-lead-silver ore deposit is one of the world’s largest ore bodies and contains an extraordinary array of minerals. It is geologically complex and has national scientific significance. The Broken Hill operation is significant for its immense size and unrecorded mineral species continue to be found. It contributes to an understanding of the formation of the Australian continent and more than 2, 300 million years of the earth’s history.”
The City of Broken Hill is delighted that the special heritage values of the city are recognised and celebrated nationally and internationally by this listing.
Wilyakali Country:
Wilyakali lies in the east of the state of South Australia, crossing into New South Wales, including the town of Broken Hill. The Wilyakali people traditionally visited the Paakantji people on the Menindee Lakes in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion each year.
The three Major language groups for the Broken Hill Region are the Paakantji, Mayyankapa, and Nyiimpaa.
Wilyakali and Danggali both lie east of the Ngadjuri language and north of the upper River Murray languages.
Wilyakali and Danggali are part of the Darling River Language Group or Paakantyi / Paakantji language group. This is a group of closely related languages in South Australia and New South Wales, which can be subdivided into two groups: the “Northern Dialects” and the “Southern Dialects.” Wilyakali and Danggali are both part of the “Southern Dialects.”
Other “Southern Dialects” include Pulaali, Southern Pankantyi, Pantyikali, Wanyuparlku and Marrawarra. Some of these languages have been recorded more than others. Although each language has its own distinguishing features, they are so similar they can be understood by speakers of other languages in this group. Therefore, the following reference list will include Southern Paakantyi references that may be helpful. The language name is noted in square brackets after each reference, when known.
Today the Wilyakali people are still the main Aboriginal group in Broken Hill, though there are a number of Aboriginal people that come from other language groups.
The Aboriginal people of Broken Hill have established working parties to pursue their vision of a better future. They continue to look after their traditional lands and are joint managers of the Mutawintji National Park which is the first national park handed back to the traditional owners in New South Wales. There are many strong elders who continue to maintain and pass on their traditional knowledge to their young people and, today, share their stories with the wider community.
Source: Broken Hill: A Guide to the Silver City by Elizabeth Vines, Mobile Language Team, & Aboriginal Housing Office.
Did some night photography in El Dorado Canyon near Nelson, Nevada. stood in the doorway of the wedding chapel, set my camera on a tripod . So I took some self portraits
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"Once upon a time, on a sad Valentine,
in a place known as Henniger Mine.
A legend began, every woman and man,
would always remember the time ..."
('The Miner' / 'Harry Warden' by NECA)
Diorama by RK
Historically known as Buckland's Building and built in 1887, the ground floor held Sir Thomas Buckland’s butcher shop once he moved his business from 64 Mosman Street, with a mining machinery agency on the first floor.
Source: Excelsior Library, Charters Towers Regional Council.
Gold Point, Nevada is a well preserved ghost town in Esmeralda County, Nevada. The community was named after the local gold-mining industry. Gold Point is the southern terminus of Nevada State Route 774
It was a very cold, windy and spooky day to be in a ghost town.
monochrome black and white
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Wild horses drinking in the desert at the Alkali Hot Springs Nevada
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The rain was pouring down when we visited the historical mining town Røros, back in 2017! We decided to take a visit to the local museum: Smelthytta.
rorosmuseet.no/en/smelthytta-museum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8ros_(town)
Thank you for taken your time to visit me, comments or faves are always much appreciated!
Morning light shining through the window of the Methodist church which is in a steady state of decay - Bodie Ghost Town - Bodie State Park - Bodie Ca -
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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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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Fill her up! An Old gas station In Bodie, California. Bodie, California is located in the high desert area at a nice high-altitude so the air always smells fresh. It's really located in the middle of nowhere you simply turn off of Highway 395 and drive about 10-12 miles on graveled road to get here. The best time to photograph here is in the early morning or late afternoon. This is probably one of the most pictured object in the old mining town of Bodie, California.
A good place to stay if you're going to explore this place is to stay in the town of Bridgeport, California which isn't that far away from Bodie. A good place to stay is at the Bridgeport Inn. If the "Mark Twain" room is available take it, trust me on that one.
It was really kind of funny how people just became oblivious to the burros after being in Oatman for awhile. This lady was patiently waiting, while looking at her phone, for her turn to get into the store. The baby already poked his nose inside and you can see the owner trying to shoo him out. If you look closely at the window, you will see a couple of more people not paying attention raucous they were causing. The burros definitely know they can get away with almost anything in this town.
Please look at my Route 66 album to see more of the Mother Road. www.flickr.com/photos/35900399@N07/albums/72177720300815453
An Old Typewriter in a state of arrested decay in the Wheaton & Luhrs hotel/boarding house - Bodie State Park - Bodie Ca.
Copper ore made possible a more than 3oo years mining venture beginning about 1645. Today it is on Unesco's heritage list.
Gold Point, Nevada is a well preserved ghost town in Esmeralda County, Nevada. The community was named after the local gold-mining industry. Gold Point is the southern terminus of Nevada State Route 774
It was a very cold, windy and spooky day to be in a ghost town.
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Goodsprings Nevada on the boarder of Nevada and California. Historic mining town in the Mojave desert
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