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The Salar contains a large amount of sodium, potassium, lithium and magnesium as well as borax. With an estimated 9,000,000 t, Bolivia holds about 7% of the world's known lithium resources; most of those are in the Salar de Uyuni.
This is the companion shot to 'Along the Trail', I didn't think to get a shot of the entire tree, it was incredibly tall, but loved how they just incorporated it into the trail. Anyway, it's a beautiful spot well worth seeking out if you're in the neighborhood.
A view of the house Ulysses S. Grant lived in when he was elected in 1868 as the 18th President of the United States. Constructed in 1859-60, the house was designed by William Dennison in Italianate style for Galena resident Alexander J. Jackson. When General Grant returned to the city in 1865 as a Civil War hero, he was presented the house—purchased by a group of prominent local Republicans, led by Elihu Benjamin Washburn whose mansion was featured here earlier.
Grant used the home as his official political and voting address, living there with his family during the 1868 presidential campaign, then for a few brief periods during his presidency (1869-1877) and retirement. He visited for the last time in 1880.
The house has been maintained as a memorial to President Grant since 1904, and is today managed by the Historic Preservation Division of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The Grant Home was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. It is a contributing property in the Galena Historic District which encompasses 85 percent of the City of Galena and includes more than 800 properties. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969, with modifications in 2013.
Galena is the seat of Jo Daviess County in the northwest corner of Illinois. This is the unglaciated area of northwestern Illinois. The rolling hills, history and abundant 19th century architecture draws visitors from throughout the country. The estimated population of Galena in 2019 was 3,158.
The warm glow of a summer evening as the sun casts its reflection on to some boats and yachts that are moored on the River Crouch in Essex England
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A walk around the lake at Wollaton Park Nottingham. Blue skies for a change.
The Hall is a Grade 1 listed building.
Wollaton Hall is an Elizabethan country house of the 1580s standing on a small but prominent hill in Wollaton Park, Nottingham, England. The house is now Nottingham Natural History Museum, with Nottingham Industrial Museum in the out-buildings. The surrounding parkland has a herd of deer, and is regularly used for large-scale outdoor events such as rock concerts, sporting events and festivals.
Wollaton is a classic prodigy house, "the architectural sensation of its age", though its builder was not a leading courtier and its construction stretched the resources he mainly obtained from coalmining; the original family home was at the bottom of the hill. Though much re-modelled inside, the "startlingly bold" exterior remains largely intact.
47739 'Resourceful' approaches Shaldon Bridge near Teignmouth hauling the 12.44 Plymouth to Glasgow mail train in March 1997
Excerpt from www.cambridge.ca/en/learn-about/resources/Old-Galt-Histor...:
Galt Woollen Factory (circa 1843) at 36-38 Water Street South: This building on the river side of Water Street is the oldest surviving textile mill in the area. Under Isaac Sours ownership from 1843-1852, the mill workers worked an average of 64 hours per week. Alexander Young taught school in the Woollen Factory before the Warnocks purchased it in 1881 to house the original Tiger Brand Knitting Company. A section of the building is currently a pumping station for the Grand River Conservation Authority. The remainder has been converted to offices and apartments by the architect, Carlos Ventin. This multifunctional structure is a good example of conservation and restoration of an older building.
- Sam Levenson.
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While planning my trip to Lassen Volcanic National Park, I found that nearly all resources recommended visiting Bumpass Hell. I added it to my must-see list, but not for photography. I wanted to go with my daughter because it's a truly unique place and to introduce her to it. As we finalized our plans, I realized the hike was about 4 miles long, which could be quite challenging for a six-year-old. Most guides suggested a more moderate, easier trail, so I was willing to try, but it turned out not so moderate, with some steep sections. Making the hike a little strenuous, especially under the midday Sun.
The only silver lining was that the trail was well-shaded. My daughter handled the trail remarkably well. I believe having engaging things to look at is a great way to keep six-year-olds interested in hiking. Interestingly, it also works as a surprisingly good spot for photography, even under the midday sun. I took this photo from one of the initial overlooks. From there, we viewed the area known as Bumpass Hell. It exceeded my expectations; the colors were vibrant under the bright sun. Some clouds provided softer, diffused light, and the trees framing this strikingly scarred landscape just added to the scene. This is one of the classic viewpoints of Bumpass Hell and my favorite photo from the area.
Sauberes Wasser ist eine der wichtigsten Ressourcen.
Wissen wir dies in unserer Welt wirklich zu schätzen ?
Clean water is one of the most important resources.
Do we really appreciate this in our world?
This great abandoned farm is located just south of the Schapville farm and is located on state department of natural resources property.
Near historic Elizabeth,IL.
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.
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Riqueza solo de ida.
Hubo un tiempo en que las tierras del Marquesado del Zenete (Granada) proporcionaban la riqueza de sus entrañas a la industria y a las ciudades. No recibieron mucho a cambio. Toda la comarca, desde iglesias hasta colegios, sigue cubierta del polvo rojizo del mineral de hierro, pero no hubo grandes inversiones públicas en la zona, a excepción del ferrocarril. Este ramal electrificado ahora abandonado, el Ferrocarril Minero del Marquesado, enlazaba las minas de Alquife con la estación de Huéneja, del FFCC Linares-Almería.
Hoy día la misma comarca, todavía deprimida, está cuajada de parques de energía eólica y fotovoltaica, que nuevamente proporcionan riqueza para la industria y ciudades remotas, ahora en forma de electricidad. Y de nuevo esta actividad económica no parece acompañada de inversiones públicas que reviertan en la mejora de oportunidades de su población.
Once upon a time the lands of the Marquesado del Zenete (Granada, Spain) provided the wealth of its entrails in industry and cities. They did not receive much in return. The entire region, from churches to schools, is still covered in reddish dust from iron ore, but there were no major public investments in the area, except for the railway. This now abandoned electrified branch, the Ferrocarril Minero del Marquesado, linked the Alquife mines with Huéneja station, belonging the Linares-Almería railway line.
Today the same area, still depressed, is full of wind and photovoltaic power plants, and again provides wealth for industry and remote cities, this time in the form of electricity. And once again, all this economic activity doesn't seem to be accompanied by public investments that bring back the improvement of opportunities for its population..
Driving and walking rovers competed to survey a shadowy analogue of the south polar lunar surface for useable resources during the inaugural ESA-ESRIC Space Resources Challenge. Some 13 teams from across Europe and Canada took part in last month’s field test, with the winners due to be announced shortly.
The Space Resources Challenge – supported by ESA and the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC) in Luxembourg – is asking European (and Canadian) researchers and institutions to develop and demonstrate a system of one or more vehicles capable of prospecting resources on the Moon in the near future.
Massimo Sabbatini, overseeing the contest for ESA, comments: “ESA is analysing the results of the first field test of the Challenge and the competition is fierce. There was a wide range of participants and technological solutions to the problem of prospecting: notably different locomotion techniques – legged, wheeled, tracked, and so on – and approaches, such as single versus multiple vehicles and aerial vehicles. The jury is out!”
The emphasis of the contest is on prospecting: pinpointing promising resources within a difficult lunar environment then characterising them in as much detail as possible, such as through visual inspection or spectral analysis.
The lunar poles are a focus of interest for future exploration. They do not experience the crippling temperature extremes of the Moon’s two-week days and nights, and frozen water and other deposits are believed to be buried within permanently shadowed polar craters.
The Space Resources Challenge teams gathered at Valkenberg in the Netherlands had to contend with challenging illumination conditions and potential loss of signal events to locate resources, including mapping a small impact crater in the vicinity of the rover’s lander – all within a two and a half hour time limit.
The five winners will be awarded €375 000 in ESA contracts, with a larger prize pool on offer after a follow-on field test hosted by ESRIC next year.
Credits: ESA-M. Sabbatini
The Bo-Kaap is an area of Cape Town, South Africa formerly known as the Malay Quarter. It is a former racially segregated area, situated on the slopes of Signal Hill above the city centre and is a historical centre of Cape Malay culture in Cape Town. The Nurul Islam Mosque, established in 1844, is located in the area.
Bo-Kaap is known for its brightly coloured homes and cobblestoned streets. The area is traditionally a multicultural neighbourhood, and 56.9% of its population identify as Muslim. According to the South African Heritage Resources Agency, the area contains the largest concentration of pre-1850 architecture in South Africa, and is the oldest surviving residential neighborhood in Cape Town.
In 1760 Jan de Waal bought a block of land at the foot of Signal Hill, between Dorp and Wale Streets. A year later he obtained an adjacent parcel, extending his holding to Rose/Chiappini/Shortmarket Street. Starting in 1763, de Waal built several small “huurhuisjes” (rental houses) on this land, which he leased to his slaves. The first three are at 71 Wale Street (now the Bokaap Museum), above Buitengracht Street, and 42 Leeuwen Street respectively.
Skilled Muslim labourers called Mardijkers moved to the Cape from Southeast Asia and lived in the Bo-Kaap. Because the aboriginal tribes in the Cape Colony area resisted the Dutch, slaves were initially imported from Malaysia, Indonesia and different parts of Africa, hence the name “Malay”. Most of the new residents were Muslim, and several mosques were built in the area. The first one was Auwal Mosque, in Dorp Street in 1794. Between 1790 and 1825 more housing in both the Cape Dutch and Cape Georgian styles was built for the expanding population of tradesmen, craftsmen, and artisans. In 1804 the Tana Baru Cemetery was established to serve the Muslim families.
More Muslims continued to move into the area, including a wave of political exiles from Java and Ceylon circa 1820. After the emancipation in 1834 and the arrival of liberated slaves, developers constructed numerous rows of narrow, deep huurhuisjes.
The brightly coloured facades are attributed to an expression of freedom by the new homeowners, as all the houses were painted white while on lease, although it appears that the tradition of brightly coloured homes began in the late 20th century, rather than earlier.
Although the area has always been a centre of Cape Malay culture, until the implementation of the Apartheid Group Areas Act, it also had residents of other ethnicities. These included Indians, non-Muslim Coloureds, Filipinos, Africans, Portuguese and Italians at different times. Historically, the Bo-Kaap was larger than its current extent.
During Apartheid, the area was not bulldozed, unlike nearby District Six, however non-Malay residents were forcibly removed in accordance with the Group Areas Act, in an effort by a sympathetic apartheid government official (I. D. du Plessis) to preserve the Malay character of the area.
Preservation of the area began in 1943 when 15 houses were restored by a group of prominent citizens, with the support of the Historical Monuments Commission. In 1966 a portion of the area was designated as a National Monument. From 1971 the City Council began restoring houses and streetscapes, with 48 units completed by 1975.
R&N LNRX, a Tamaqua to Lehigh Natural Resources mine run, shoves into the mine near Coaldale, PA early in the morning on July 24th.
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dear friends!! from across the ocean, a flying letter has come, carrying precious resources for the journey... messages and gifts from magic fly paula, a wonderful artist and friend...
with this imaginary map and a cup of orange pekoe tea from the azores, the traveler follows the path to a small cosmos full of stars... and friendship.
thank you, paula!!
(see paula's beautiful image of this letter here.)
...and thank you to the letter's lives group!!
may all travelers find joy!!
and maps along the way...
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scanned, assembled and altered images, october 27, 2007
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Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
Kakadu National Park is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 km southeast of Darwin.
The park is located within the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory. It covers an area of 19,804 km2 (7,646 sq mi), extending nearly 200 kilometres from north to south and over 100 kilometres from east to west. It is the size of Slovenia, about one-third the size of Tasmania, or nearly half the size of Switzerland.
The Ranger Uranium Mine, one of the most productive uranium mines in the world, is surrounded by the park.
The name Kakadu may come from the mispronunciation of Gaagudju, which is the name of an Aboriginal language spoken in the northern part of the park. This name may derive from the Indonesian word kakatuwah, (via Dutch kaketoe and German Kakadu) subsequently Anglicised as "cockatoo”. Kakadu is ecologically and biologically diverse. The main natural features protected within the National Park include:
•four major river systems: the East Alligator River, the West Alligator River, the Wildman River; and the entire South Alligator River;
•six major landforms, estuaries and tidal flats, floodplains, lowlands, the stone country, the outliers; and
the southern hills and basins;
•a remarkable variety and concentration of wildlife; over 280 bird species, roughly 60 mammal species, over 50 freshwater species, over 10,000 insect species, over 1,600 plant species and some 117 species of reptiles
Aboriginal people have occupied the Kakadu area continuously for at least 40,000 years. Kakadu National Park is renowned for the richness of its Aboriginal cultural sites. There are more than 5,000 recorded art sites illustrating Aboriginal culture over thousands of years. The archaeological sites demonstrate Aboriginal occupation for at least 20,000 and possibly up to 60,000 years.
The cultural and natural values of Kakadu National Park were recognised internationally when the park was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. This is an international register of properties that are recognised as having outstanding cultural or natural values of international significance. Kakadu was listed in three stages: stage 1 in 1981, stage 2 in 1987, and the entire park in 1992.
Approximately half of the land in Kakadu is Aboriginal land under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, and most of the remaining land is currently under claim by Aboriginal people. The areas of the park that are owned by Aboriginal people are leased by the traditional owners to the Director of National Parks to be managed as a national park. The remaining area is Commonwealth land vested under the Director of National Parks. All of Kakadu is declared a national park under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
The Aboriginal traditional owners of the park are descendants of various clan groups from the Kakadu area and have longstanding affiliations with this country. Their lifestyle has changed in recent years, but their traditional customs and beliefs remain very important. About 500 Aboriginal people live in the park, many of them are traditional owners. All of Kakadu is jointly managed by Aboriginal traditional owners and the Australian Government's Department of the Environment and Water Resources through a division known as Parks Australia. Park Management is directed by the Kakadu Board of Management.