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WWYLF teens spent time at Old Sturbridge Village, which depicts a rural New England town of the 1830s. They received hands-on experience with crafts such as woodworking, hearth cooking, iron work and more. U.S. Army photo #WWYLF18
Built in 1861 as an office and accommodation for the famous Wallaroo copper mines and smelter till 1923. It was also used for many years as a Seafarers' centre for the crews of visiting ships.
State heritage ID 10137
Now used as the Wallaroo Smelters Accommodation.
Walkerville, Montana, Moulton and Alice Mines and Smelters in background. (1900)
Image taken from pg 20 of A Brief History of Butte, Montana the World's Greatest Mining Camp: Including a Story of the Extraction and Treatment of Ores from its Gigantic Copper Properties
Unique ID: mze-butt1900 pg 20
Type: Book
Contributors: Harry C. Freeman; Publisher, The Henry O. Shepard Company
Date Digital: November 2009
Date Original: 1900
Source: Butte Digital Image Project at Montana Memory Project (read the book)
Library: Butte-Silver Bow Public Library in Butte, Montana, USA.
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Fried Smelt
(Castranovo & Falcinelli)
Twelve Days of Christmas: Frank Castranovo & Frank Falcinelli
The Restaurant at Meadowood
Meadowood Napa Valley
St. Helena, California
(December 5, 2014)
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Mal-Mart Mega Store
Burning Man 2010
Metropolis: The Life of Cities
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Mal-Mart is an exploration into America's consumer driven society where the shopping mall reigns supreme. Mal-Mart will deconstruct the shopping experience by offering Burning Man residents their first multi-level shopping mall where nothing is for sale and ideas are more valuable than "valuables.
Dragon Smelter
by Emma Macchiarini-Morris
Contact Email: danny1mac@sbcglobal.net
The Dragon Smelter is an 18 foot high steel sculpture with a crucible built into it's belly. We will take this creature out to the desert, fire it up and use recycled aluminum cans to create original sculptures right there on the playa. Citizens of Black Rock city will be encouraged to participate in the process of creating these sculptures. This year we will also be creating "Karma coins" in a smaller smelter for participants. The coins can be used for barter, or worn as souvenirs.
Kanmantoo - former mining centre on SA Company Land.
When both the Paringa Mining Company and the SA Company applied for the Mt Barker Special Mining Survey in late 1845 the double application was solved by allotting strips of land to each company as shown in the map earlier. The SA Company had sent their geologists to the area to look for copper and they had had some success. William Giles, the SA Company Manager hoped for great success but this eluded the Company. By 1846 the SA Company had a mine site up and working with 25 mainly Cornishmen employed but the high cost of transport to and from Port Adelaide, (£200 a round trip) meant that the mine never made a profit or dividend for the SA Company. The mine also had a problem as the miners at Kanmantoo were paid less than those at Burra and most left anyway for the Victorian goldfields in 1851. Ore was smelted at Callington smelters or at Mr Dawes smelter at Dawesley. Eventually the SA Company sold its land to the Kanmantoo Mining and Smelting Company in 1862. This company only lasted until 1869. The New Kanmantoo Company mined the area from 1869-1874 with the Company mine closing in 1874 but private miners continued working the area for the next thirty years usually employed by Peter Lewis the blacksmith of Kanmantoo. In 1860 and again in 1886 some silver was also found in the mining area at Aclare mine near St Ives but this closed quickly as a company operation but was also worked by individuals until it finally closed in 1912. The village of St Ives, what was left of it, is now under the freeway built in 1977.
But where was the Kanmantoo mine? It was in several satellite villages to Kanmantoo such as ;Staughton near the current freeway; St Ives also near the freeway but on Paringa Mining Company land not the SA Company land; and at Tavistock between Kanmantoo and the Bremer River. So mining was widespread with Kanmantoo in the middle of all the villages. Kanmantoo was the SA Company base with the Company store and other administrative functions there. The other villages lasted from the first mining in 1846 to late in the 19th century by which time they were generally deserted. This was also the period when most of the mining companies sold off their lands for wheat farming. Although Staughton had a Primitive Methodist chapel (1849) for use by the strongly Methodist Cornish miners, Kanmantoo was the town that got most of the necessary public buildings. It was established in 1849 as a town site on the new government road via Callington to Wellington and the Murray River. Within a few years Kanmantoo had 66 houses, two hotels, a Methodist Church built in 1864, a blacksmith and a general store. The Primitive Methodists had built an early chapel in 1847 but all traces of this disappeared quickly when it was replaced in 1864 by a new Primitive Methodist Church. This Methodist church became the town school building which is now the community hall. Kanmantoo School operated from the early years (1857) in several different locations and in 1880 it became a provisional school with government inspections. The Education Department bought the Primitive Methodist Church in 1921 as a state school and we can see where they replaced a gothic church window with a typical school room window in the 1920s. By 1953 the school had a mere 3 students and it was closed by the government. As a community hall it has a problem for table tennis as the floor was designed to slope towards the pulpit at the front!
One year after the Primitive Methodists built their new Kanmantoo Church the more upper class Wesleyan Methodists built a fine church (1865) in Kanmantoo in Cook Street. It still stands and has a façade with unusual brickwork around the window above the door and the bell cover. When the 3 branches of Methodists united in 1900 the Primitives gave up their church, (which eventually became the town school), and the former Wesley Methodist Church became the only Methodist church in Kanmantoo. The last service was held in this building in 1956 and it is now a private house. It should be in the Register of the National Estate in our opinion because of its historical associations with the Cornish miners of Kanmantoo and its unusual architecture.
Primitive Methodist Church later Kanmantoo state school. The Kanmantoo Wesleyan Methodist 1865.
Kanmantoo also had a Catholic Church built in 1858 as some of the miners were of Irish descent. St Thomas Church was L shaped and quite large on Nursery Street. It was during the 1850s that several large Irish Catholic families arrived at Kanmantoo mines. Father O’Brien laid the foundation stone of the Catholic Church in April 1858. As the congregation swelled with additions to the Irish families a new section was added in 1865 to create the current L shaped appearance. St Thomas’ Catholic Church closed in 1956 and was saved from demolition when new owners restored it as a residence. Lutherans in Kanmantoo travelled to St Peter’s Lutheran church in Callington which was erected in 1864. It appears that most Anglicans in Kanmantoo travelled to St James Anglican Church at Blakiston.
Kanmantoo unlike the other villages survived as a rural service centre for the local wheat farmers. The grain was taken to Nairne, not far away for milling. One of the early farmers was Charles Young who had been a surveyor for the Paringa Mining Company in 1856 when it sold off much of its land not considered suitable for mining. He also surveyed Harrogate. Young bought up land from the Paringa Mining Company in 1866 and called it Holmesdale. It was located near St Ives, just outside Kanmantoo. Within a year he had 25 acres under vines which he quickly increased to 40 acres. He established a winery there that operated for many years. He had an arrangement to use the Kanmantoo school children to pick the grapes and he sold most of his wine to England. He became the squire of the district, representing the area in the Legislative Council, in local government as a councillor and he indulged his interests of education, horse racing and Aboriginal welfare. He used to visit Point McLeay Mission (now Raukkan) and he brought back to Holmesdale in 1887 a young 15 year Aboriginal boy called David Unaipon. We now know that Unaipon went on to publish scientific articles, write books, invent a special shearing comb for sheep and he is depicted on the $50 Australian note. When Charles Young died in 1904 his son Harry took over the property and continued his father’s work. He continued to provide a home for David Unaipon who lived on the Young property most of his life; Harry also became a local councillor; he supported horse racing (there is still a Harry D Young hurdles race at the Easter Oakbank races each year) but he pulled out his father’s vines in 1939 and ended the Kanmantoo winery. Harry Young died in 1944.
Another well known one time resident of Kanmantoo was Dame Enid Lyons who went to school there. Her widowed mother, Eliza Tagget, lived in Kanmantoo before going to Queensland and later to Tasmania. It was in Tasmania that Dame Enid Lyons met her future husband Jo Lyons who became Prime Minister of Australia and established the party that later became the Liberal-Country Party of Australia. Apart from famous residents Kanmantoo also has a well known forest plantation. The combined district schools Arbor Day of 1897 was when the plantation to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee on the throne was created. This plantation still stands despite drought and floods. The creeks and the Bremer River have all flooded on a number of occasions. The worse floods were in 1894, 1913, and in 1939 when the Princes Highway to Melbourne was cut. Evidence of the floods is still visible. The flats below Kanmantoo were also used periodically for military camps and training between 1880 and 1939.
In more modern times Kanmantoo has had a mining resurgence. The copper lodes were worked again between 1970 and 1976 yielding 36,000 tons of copper and 9,000 ounces of gold. More recently Hillgrove Resources has restarted the copper and gold mines of Kanmantoo using modern methods of ore extraction. Hillgrove started on this journey in 2004, getting mining leases in 2008 and finally approval to go ahead with the new mine in 2010. After a further year of construction and work the new processing plant was commissioned for work in November 2011. This construction and site preparation phase has cost Hillgrove $121 million. This large open cut mine will have a life of around 6.5 years and Hillgrove expect to extract 20,000 tons of copper and 10,000 ounces of gold. The mine site was employing 150 people, half of the contractors, by the end of 2011. So the original impetus to settlement is once again relevant to the survival of tiny township of Kanmantoo almost 170 years after its founding.
Chillagoe was the smelting centre for the surrounding region from about 1890 to about 1940. The site processed ores from numerous small mines within a radius of 50 to 150 km, mainy for lead and copper with some silver and small amounts of gold. The geology typically consists of volcanic massive sulfide ores – often small in size but containing rich grades and many deposits spread across the region.
Nevada Northern Doubleheader, pt 1, 1 Sept 2018
I had not been to the Nevada Northern in 30 years.
In 1982, Dad and I rose an excursion that ran the length of the line from Cobre to Ely and then the next day, explored the lines to the mine at Ruth and the smelter at McGill. The NN and the mine and mill were still in business in 1982, the railroad delivering copper to the WP at Schafter and the SP at Cobre. Dick Reynolds' Great Western Tours put on the excursion, extra cars on Amtrak and connecting buses to and from Ogden.
In 1988, with the mine and railway shut down for freight and the railway in the Ely area reopened for excursion service, and with the shops, yard and offices in East Ely now a museum, Dad and I drove the "Loneliest Highway in America", US 50 across Nevada, to Ely to ride the trains to Ruth and McGill. 40 was supposed to pull the train to Ruth and we saw it running on the morning train as we approached Ely, but it had a mechanical problem and our afternoon trains were pulled by a Kennecott Copper Alco RS-3. Oh, well, not a bad consolation prize. We had a tour of the shops, which seemed to be just as they were when the railroad shut down in1983. The calendar on the wall was still turned to the month when the line shut down, tools were on workbenches, a locomotive axle was in a lathe, all waiting for the workers to come back in the morning. Just a layer of dust reminded us that it had been 5 years since the workers went home and never came back.
And then 30 years passed. I suggested trips to Ely over the years, but my wife did not think that driving 8 hours to the middle of nowhere ranked high on her list of great ways to spend a long weekend. The girls considered trips to Ely and Great Basin National Park, but it never worked out.
So, 30 years went by.
This weekend, Anne and Elizabeth are having a mom-daughter weekend at the coast, like they do most years and with the car not completely unpacked from last weekend's Palisade camp out, I thought about heading east. Friday, after work, I packed up, put the dogs in the backseat, left a bunch of food for the cats and headed east.
We got as far as a bit east of Fallon, Nevada before I decided to call it a night. We found a dirt road off of US 50 and I put a camp mattress across the back seat of the car and managed to get a few hours of sleep, with one door open, so my legs would have room to stretch out. Nature called at 0550, with the eastern sky turning pink and we were on the road into the sunrise a short time later.
Then the car started having issues. The temperature would start rising after I'd been driving for a while and I'd stop and add water to the radiator. This went on all the way into Ely, by which time I was concerned about the car getting back home. The lady at the gas station where I filled up pointed me to an auto parts store where I got some radiator stop leak and they pointed me at a hardware store where I got more water jugs to supplement the 5 gallon jug that I already had.
Car or no car, the Nevada Northern was moving equipment in their yard, two steam engines by the sound of the whistles that I could hear while getting stuff for the car.
When i got to the East Ely depot, 4-6-0 40 and 2-8-0 93 were coupled to the day's train, 2 coaches, an open car and a caboose.
I got some photos of the train as it awaited boarding and then got some fast food for lunch, getting kid's burgers for the dogs in the back seat.
We followed the train out of town and up the hill to Ruth. It was not going fast, allowing the dozen or so people chasing it plenty of chances for photos.
40 and 93 both started life as saturated steam engines and were later superheated. The new steam pipes from the superheater header to the cylinders give both engines a "Popeye with his hands on his hips" look, similar to the Indian BESA converted SGC, HGC and HPC engines.
NN 40 is the only operating full size locomotive in the western USA that has Baker valve gear, AFAIK. Baker was popular in the east on such lines as NYC, Nickel Plate, N&W and others, but, for whatever reasons, did not catch on with SP, UP, ATSF, GN, WP, Rio Grande, or NP.
This album shows the train at the East Ely station and climbing to Ruth. Part two will be the return trip.
This looks like the ruins of an old fort, but it is the ruins of an old gold smelter, on Aruba at Bushiribana. Depending on what you read, it was built around 1825 and operated for most of the 19th century, or it was built in 1872 and operated for 10 years.
gutted and ready to go
I hadn't eaten smelt since I was a kid. My dad would bring back bags of rainbow smelt back from trips to Port Huron or Point Pelee and fry them up. I remember going but we were always skunked those times. I couldn't pass these up when I passed a stall at the farmers' market selling these guys from Eureka. $4 a pound seems steep but I was willing to pay that for a little reminiscing.
These turned out excellently, although I did over fry one batch. They're like paczci; you're bound to screw up the first batch. :)
In 1915, the smelting of five companies was amalgamated and the BHAS (Broken Hill Associated Smelters) developed into the largest in the world.
More reading here:
adelaideaz.com/articles/world-s-biggest-lead-smelters-pla...
PT Virtue Dragon Nickel Industry, sebuah perusahaan swasta yang bergerak di bidang smelter bijih nikel di Sulawesi Tenggara. PT. VDNI beroperasional dalam Kawasan Industri Konawe di Desa Morosi dan masuk ke dalam Objek Vital Nasional subbidang mineral dan batubara berdasarkan Kempem No.77K/90/MEM/2019 serta menjadi Proyek Strategis Nasional berdasarkan Peraturan Presiden No. 58 tahun 2017.
Photo: Auriga Nusantara/Yudi Nofiandi
Notes: title from album page, actually the copper smelter and steel works, thanks to our correspondent below.
In October 1875 iron smelting began in Lithgow under the direction of Enoch Hughes. The foundry was erected on Thomas Brown's Esk Bank property where ore was found just beneath the surface of the ground.
Hughes successfully encouraged James Rutherford of Bathurst, a principal shareholder and manager of Cobb and Co., Dan Williams a Canadian railway engineer who had worked on the Zig Zag and the Honourable John Sutherland the Minister for Public Works to join him in this steel making venture. By the end of 1876 the blast furnace was producing over 100 tons of pig-iron per week.
Following coal mining and iron smelting, the third industry to develop in the Lithgow region was Copper Smelting. The first smelting in the area was undertaken by a Welshman by the name of Lloyd with ores won at Wiseman's Creek and smelted from the coal slack from Thomas Brown's colliery. Two further copper plants were also to develop in the area; the first in 1876 by the tobacco magnate Thomas Saywell and the second formed in 1895 by the Cobar Syndicate.
Format: albumen photo print, Caney studio no. 54, 195 mm x 150 mm
Date Range: c.1880
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection
Provenance: High McBroom
An undated view of the smelter. The main line of the Silverton Railroad id in the upper right of picture. The long single story building on the left was the assay office. And above that building can be seen the Stoiber Sampling Works. Box cars appear to have been the car of choice in transporting ore. The location of the various buildings and track was still discernable until current construction of the Anvil Mountain housing development started several years ago.
Title: Smelter and slag dump - offices in background
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1902
Part Of: Mexican Mining & Smelting Company
Place: Mexico
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 12 x 17 cm on 18 x 25 cm mount
File: ag1983_0276_03a_sm_opt.jpg
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