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Interesting funga flora and fauna on this former mining site near Kayl (southerrn part of Luxembourg). Ancient richness of the country: the "Minette" formation (upper Lias), containig a few % of iron..
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Bisbee is the county seat of Cochise County in southeastern Arizona. It was founded in 1880 as a mining town for copper, gold, and silver. The city was named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, a major financial backer of the Copper Queen Mine. Bisbee is noted for its charmingly Victorian and European-style homes perc...
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This Bodie California church was probably used for more funerals than normal services. This mining town was a harsh place to live and an easy place to die. Without trees or sanitation and only jobs in the mine or stamping mill, people died of cold, silicosis, cyanide poining, or went slowly mad with mercury poisonin...
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This view looks North and West from Grouse Ridge Lookout, on the Tahoe National Forest. To the West is the South Fork of the Yuba River, to the North are the Sierra Buttes. Mount Lassen is visible on the NW horizon.
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This is a large congregation of Colletes inaequalis, commonly known as the “Mining Bee.” This natural phenomenon occurs between March and July. The bee ranges from Nova Scotia, Canada south to Georgia, United States. This bee is known to be polylectic (diverse forage), but can specialize on pollinating apples. ...
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The picture is taken from the tower of a ski jump (!). The shadows seen on each side is from the broken fence on the top... There was a local football tournament going on just below the hill. Sandnes is a local community app 10 kms ooutside Kirkenes. They have theis own children school to be seen in the centre of the p...
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Silver Bay is on the North Shore of Lake Superior. This marina has 108 slips for boats up to 60' long. In 1946 Reserve Mining Company started building a taconite processing plant here and the town of Silver Bay was founded in 1954. Silver Bay's population dropped from 2,917 in 1980 to 1,894 in 1990 as people left fo...
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Aerial panorama of the One Mile Lake area, downstream of the Thermalito Afterbay Outlet on the Lower Feather River. Much of this area is gold mining tailings which have been extensively mined for gravel, and in the 1960s, for material to build the Oroville Dam, about 10 miles upstream.
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360° Outlook to the former mining sites Bromeschbierg and Millebierg near Kayl and Tetange, southern Luxembourg.
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View from Highway 20 overlook. Near the barren dirt bluffs in the center of the image were the gold mining towns of Alpha and Omega, established in the early 1850s. During this time, Yuba River water was diverted into canals and flumes which were used for both small-scale 'placer mining' and 'hydraulic mining' - wh...
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