Many of the sluice mines in the Southeast “salt” their material, meaning they enrich it with stones from all over the world and this can be disappointing when you expected to find something right from the ground beneath your feet. The Cherokee Mine in Macon County, North Carolina offers aw...
Ranging in depth from 2 to 260 feet, the oldest ship dates back to 1877, when the island was teeming with copper mines. Anyone without scuba training can still find something to do on Isle Royale, including exploring those old copper mines, seeing the Rock Harbor Lighthouse, which dates ba...
The opal mines seem to be a smaller operation and you honestly feel as if you could give it a serious go. At first I wondered why we had come here but after a few days, I didn't want to leave. It is an intriguing place. The underground living, through to the colourful Breakaways...
“Are you all right?” I asked. “I’ve been doing a lot of thinking,” he said. “I might be moving.” Moving? Then he added, “Moving in with you.” I nearly put the car on the sidewalk. “What?” I asked. “I think we should get married,” he said. He told me he’...
The otherworldly landscape of Outworld is in Leigh Creek, a coal mine town located in the middle of nowhere. Distances in Australia are insane: You have to drive almost 6 hours from Adelaide to get there, and you're not even halfway to the northern border of the state of South Australia...
While the western Allies released their final World War II prisoners in 1948, many German POWs in the U.S.S.R. were kept under lock and key for several more years. Most were used as slave labor in copper or coal mines, and anywhere between 400,000 and one million eventually died while...
Another classic example of this is the historic use of canaries by miners to detect the presence of toxic gases in coal mines (Burrell and Seibert, 1916). Dying crows and other birds signaled the appearance and spread of the West Nile virus infection in the Western hemisphere. As the ...
In our Western Australian iron ore mines we are operating one of the largest autonomous blast hole drill fleets in the world. The drills are operated over a thousand kilometres away, in Perth. A reduction in repair and maintenance, as well as being able to operate the drills no matter what...
This requires companies to be very clear about how they plan to win in their chosen market. What is our commodity focus? Are we a dividend or a growth stock? Should we design mass scale or modular mines? What culture, skills, processes and technologies will support our strategic goals?"...
Yet on the 24th of May 2020, Rio Tinto blasted into oblivion the caves of the Juukan Gorge, a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal sacred site in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, where the company mines iron ore. Rio Tinto did this in the pursuit of further expansion and in full knowledge...