#quarries — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #quarries, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/481597/ In Tuscany, an Artistic Sculpture Hub Thrives #art #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #Botero #Design #Éire #Entertainment #Fernando #Gina #IE #Ireland #Lollobrigida #Mikayel #Ohanjanyan #Pietrasanta(Italy) #Quarries #RockAndStone #Sculpture
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If you like your adits and industrial archaeology, here's a free, very visual write-up for you about the mile-long Penrhyn quarry drainage adit, built 1847-1849, possibly involving some Latter Day Saint drivers, though we failed to find definitive evidence so far.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/123Y8_sbTebF_sm_AcUcs4BqjjQcNxyeC/view?usp=sharing
#heritage #quarries #mines #slate #wales #cymru #industrialarchaeology #ia
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If you like your adits and industrial archaeology, here's a free, very visual write-up for you about the mile-long Penrhyn quarry drainage adit, built 1847-1849, possibly involving some Latter Day Saint drivers, though we failed to find definitive evidence so far.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/123Y8_sbTebF_sm_AcUcs4BqjjQcNxyeC/view?usp=sharing
#heritage #quarries #mines #slate #wales #cymru #industrialarchaeology #ia
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Nice to go underground for a couple of hours to see my old 1862 friend, No. 2 hydraulic pump at a north Wales slate quarry. This kept levels 120 feet below this floor free of flooding and operated for a century with little maintenance. Its fuel was the original, free renewable: a head of water.
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Nice to go underground for a couple of hours to see my old 1862 friend, No. 2 hydraulic pump at a north Wales slate quarry. This kept levels 120 feet below this floor free of flooding and operated for a century with little maintenance. Its fuel was the original, free renewable: a head of water.
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This afternoon's completion of documenting work I started back in 2022. This is 500m inside a mountain of alternating slate beds and grits. The dip of the slate beds is remarkably clear here. Time travel, back to 1847 when this drainage adit was started, and simultaneously 500 million years back to when this was all deep sea sediment.
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This afternoon's completion of documenting work I started back in 2022. This is 500m inside a mountain of alternating slate beds and grits. The dip of the slate beds is remarkably clear here. Time travel, back to 1847 when this drainage adit was started, and simultaneously 500 million years back to when this was all deep sea sediment.
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#BostonWeekend 18x Sat SOMERVILLE ROCKS 11am 90 min walking tour of the Secret Quarries of #SomervilleMA - starts at Somerville Museum. $15+ https://www.somervillemuseum.org/calendar-events/ghosts-of-somerville-3-5btw9-4n7lx #Boston #SomervilleMuseum #geology #rocks #quarries #quarry #WalkingTour
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#BostonWeekend 18x Sat SOMERVILLE ROCKS 11am 90 min walking tour of the Secret Quarries of #SomervilleMA - starts at Somerville Museum. $15+ https://www.somervillemuseum.org/calendar-events/ghosts-of-somerville-3-5btw9-4n7lx #Boston #SomervilleMuseum #geology #rocks #quarries #quarry #WalkingTour
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Last of the summer...
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I sold this #photo a few days ago. Someone bought a #greetingcard with this as an #image
https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/panorama-the-quincy-quarries-adam-gladstone.html
#fedigiftshop #ayearforart #buyintoart #nature #naturephotography #fineartamerica #faa #Quincy #quincyma #quarries #landscapephotography
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I sold this #photo a few days ago. Someone bought a #greetingcard with this as an #image
https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/panorama-the-quincy-quarries-adam-gladstone.html
#fedigiftshop #ayearforart #buyintoart #nature #naturephotography #fineartamerica #faa #Quincy #quincyma #quarries #landscapephotography
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I've seen many manganese quarries and mines, but never one quite like this. Repeated piles of stones, apparently spoil heaps but they are quite odd. The narrow vein must have been chased on the surface.
The landscape is almost all sandstone and mudstone, about half a billion years old.
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A fairly brief write-up on my visit to a couple of small slate quarry ventures earlier in the week (free to read):
https://henebioncymru.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/quarry-water/
#heritage #history #cymru #wales #slate #quarries #archaeology #IA
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Some photographic meditation at Dinorwig slate quarry, north Wales.
#quarries #heritage #unesco #slate #northwales #mountains #industry #photography
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I'm presently working on research, on foot and on paper, into a slate quarry tramway tunnel in north Wales.
Let's see if anyone out there with an interest in railways, perhaps even this one, can add to my very draft-stage document, which still contains trains of thought for later resolution (or not!) Obviously, all the material is my own copyright, unless otherwise stated.
The more that take a look, maybe the more we may learn.
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Very pleased that a simple magnetic compass and measuring wheel (lit by torch!) suvey of an old slate quarry tramway tunnel (yellow) turned out in pretty-much perfect alignment with the portals at each end. I didn't have knowledge of the 1889 map until after the survey.
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Surveying these past days has taken me to a much-visited but little-studied tramway tunnel in a north Wales quarry site.
Built sometime after 1828, it may originally have been an open cut, but was then covered over to accommodate slate tipping overhead.
The tip has sat as a vast mass over this rudimentary archwork for over a century. It's still bearing up, but there are clear signs of pretty imminent failure beneath the apex of the tip.
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Surveying these past days has taken me to a much-visited but little-studied tramway tunnel in a north Wales quarry site.
Built sometime after 1828, it may originally have been an open cut, but was then covered over to accommodate slate tipping overhead.
The tip has sat as a vast mass over this rudimentary archwork for over a century. It's still bearing up, but there are clear signs of pretty imminent failure beneath the apex of the tip.
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The mighty Dorothea slate quarry Cornish beam engine pump, north Wales.
This dewatered the increasingly-deep quarry pit, which eventually reached about 108m below local surface level.
The quarry ceased operation in 1970 and quickly flooded thereafter.
Short video (1:50):
https://youtu.be/qEB5q4kkwLo?si=s9UCFoMW_Xe1qgHA
#history #heritage #wales #cymru #quarries #slate #llechi #industrial
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The mighty Dorothea slate quarry Cornish beam engine pump, north Wales.
This dewatered the increasingly-deep quarry pit, which eventually reached about 108m below local surface level.
The quarry ceased operation in 1970 and quickly flooded thereafter.
Short video (1:50): https://youtu.be/qEB5q4kkwLo?si=s9UCFoMW_Xe1qgHA
#history #heritage #wales #cymru #quarries #slate #llechi #industrial
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Opalsøen (The Opal Lake) in Allinge, Denmark
Once a granite mine, this beautiful lake is the perfect place to cliff jump and zipline in Denmark#water #quarries #mines #lakes #section-Atlas
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Opalsøen (The Opal Lake) in Allinge, Denmark
Once a granite mine, this beautiful lake is the perfect place to cliff jump and zipline in Denmark#water #quarries #mines #lakes #section-Atlas
Opalsøen (The Opal Lake) -
The Granite Garden Gallery in Sullivan, Maine
Admire an ever-changing landscape of stone sculptures.#quarries #art #sculptures #section-Atlas
The Granite Garden Gallery -
The Granite Garden Gallery in Sullivan, Maine
Admire an ever-changing landscape of stone sculptures.#quarries #art #sculptures #section-Atlas
The Granite Garden Gallery -
University Stone Quarry Lake in Pune, India
Now a small lake, stone quarried from this spot was used to build the local university building.#parks #nature #quarries #section-Atlas
University Stone Quarry Lake -
University Stone Quarry Lake in Pune, India
Now a small lake, stone quarried from this spot was used to build the local university building.#parks #nature #quarries #section-Atlas
University Stone Quarry Lake -
Cava del Balestrieri in San Marino, San Marino
Where the crossbowmen of San Marino demonstrate their skills.#quarries #sports #weapons #section-Atlas
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Cava del Balestrieri in San Marino, San Marino
Where the crossbowmen of San Marino demonstrate their skills.#quarries #sports #weapons #section-Atlas
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On the edge
These are abandoned quarries in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, June 2022. Outdated methods of mineral mining caused the water pollution and discolouration.
Photograph: Yevhen Samuchenko/EPOTY23
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On the edge
These are abandoned quarries in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, June 2022. Outdated methods of mineral mining caused the water pollution and discolouration.
Photograph: Yevhen Samuchenko/EPOTY23
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Huntington Sunken Gardens in Huntington, Indiana
A former limestone quarry has found a new life as a flourishing community garden.
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Huntington Sunken Gardens in Huntington, Indiana
A former limestone quarry has found a new life as a flourishing community garden.
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🚨 Attn #UK #Conservation, #History, #Geology, #StoneMason, #Architecture, & #Surveyor peeps!
Together w #BritishGeologicalSurvey, #HistoricEngland has launched a #BuildingStones #database for #England, the country's first online searchable tool featuring over 4,000 types of building stone, their uses & sources, with 45 illustrated guides to the distinctive stone buildings, geology, & #quarries that define local areas.
#BGS #GIS #England #Heritage #Lithology #Histodon
https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/technical-advice/buildings/building-stones-england
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🚨 Attn #UK #Conservation, #History, #Geology, #StoneMason, #Architecture, & #Surveyor peeps!
Together w #BritishGeologicalSurvey, #HistoricEngland has launched a #BuildingStones #database for #England, the country's first online searchable tool featuring over 4,000 types of building stone, their uses & sources, with 45 illustrated guides to the distinctive stone buildings, geology, & #quarries that define local areas.
#BGS #GIS #England #Heritage #Lithology #Histodon
https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/technical-advice/buildings/building-stones-england
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🚨 Attn #UK #Conservation, #History, #Geology, #StoneMason, #Architecture, & #Surveyor peeps!
Together w #BritishGeologicalSurvey, #HistoricEngland has launched a #BuildingStones #database for #England, the country's first online searchable tool featuring over 4,000 types of building stone, their uses & sources, with 45 illustrated guides to the distinctive stone buildings, geology, & #quarries that define local areas.
#BGS #GIS #England #Heritage #Lithology #Histodon
https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/technical-advice/buildings/building-stones-england
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🚨 Attn #UK #Conservation, #History, #Geology, #StoneMason, #Architecture, & #Surveyor peeps!
Together w #BritishGeologicalSurvey, #HistoricEngland has launched a #BuildingStones #database for #England, the country's first online searchable tool featuring over 4,000 types of building stone, their uses & sources, with 45 illustrated guides to the distinctive stone buildings, geology, & #quarries that define local areas.
#BGS #GIS #England #Heritage #Lithology #Histodon
https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/technical-advice/buildings/building-stones-england
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🚨 Attn #UK #Conservation, #History, #Geology, #StoneMason, #Architecture, & #Surveyor peeps!
Together w #BritishGeologicalSurvey, #HistoricEngland has launched a #BuildingStones #database for #England, the country's first online searchable tool featuring over 4,000 types of building stone, their uses & sources, with 45 illustrated guides to the distinctive stone buildings, geology, & #quarries that define local areas.
#BGS #GIS #England #Heritage #Lithology #Histodon
https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/technical-advice/buildings/building-stones-england
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Pedreres de s’Hostal in Ciutadella de Menorca State: Illes Balears, Spain
Pedreres de s’Hostal -
Pedreres de s’Hostal in Ciutadella de Menorca State: Illes Balears, Spain
Pedreres de s’Hostal -
Cave of Cusa in Campobello di Mazara, Italy
The ancient Greeks abandoned this quarry to escape Hannibal's devastating invasion.
Cave of Cusa -
Cave of Cusa in Campobello di Mazara, Italy
The ancient Greeks abandoned this quarry to escape Hannibal's devastating invasion.
Cave of Cusa