Tag: mining
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Greenland’s Mineral Frontier – Thomas Hale
Interesting presentation about the mineral resources of Greenland by Thomas Hale of the University of Delaware, where he is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences. Thomas is also an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Melting ice in Greenland is exposing the country’s critical mineral…
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Throwback Thursday #190: Carbon Hill School Museum
This is Throwback Thursday #190. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! We recently stopped by the Carbon Hill School Museum in Carbon Hill, IL. Michele Micetich, the curator, was…
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Throwback Thursday #107: G-Shaft Candy
This is Throwback Thursday #107. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! If you grew up anywhere in the area, you may remember G-Shaft Candy. It’s a hard candy, brown…
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Century-Old Levi’s Jeans Discovered in Abandoned Mine
Over on yahoo!life, there’s a story about a discovery in an old abandoned silver mine in a ghost town in California. The ghost town is called “Cerro Gordo”. Brent Underwood is living there and working to restore it to its past glory. His Youtube channel “Ghost Town Living” documents his progress over the last 18…
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History of Lightning Ridge
Anyone who likes opals has surely heard of Lightning Ridge a mineral locality in Australia known for some of the best opals in the world, especially rare black opals. This page is all about the history of Lightning Ridge. Pretty colored stones were first collected in 1873, but it wasn’t until 1887 when the first…
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The Complete Story of the November 13, 1909 Cherry, Illinois Mine Disaster that killed 259 men
There’s an interesting page about the Cherry Mine Disaster over on “Digital Reseach Library of Illinois History Journal”. It has a little bit of everything, including many pictures. It was posted a few years ago on the 108th anniversary of the event. We just passed the 110th back on November 13th. The whole event is…
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Copper Mining in the News
Arizona Geology clues us into two recent articles about copper mining in Arizona. Image: Photos above by Lee Allison, Director of AZGS and Arizona State Geologist via the Arizona Geological Survey. The article with this photograph provides an interesting discussion about the geology of Arizona copper.
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Pits of the World
Via Geology News from Environmental Grafitti descriptions of ten mining pits of the world. Photo of Diavik Mine, Canada: Johnbullas
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World Faces Possible Shortage of Technology Minerals
Via the Telegraph: A draft report by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has called for a total ban on foreign shipments of terbium, dysprosium, yttrium, thulium, and lutetium. Other metals such as neodymium, europium, cerium, and lanthanum will be restricted to a combined export quota of 35,000 tonnes a year, far below global…
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Geologist Killed by Mob
From InfoMine.com via AP: Mob kills noted geologist in Kenya mine disputeBy TOM ODULA (AP) – 4 hours ago NAIROBI, Kenya — Assailants armed with arrows, spears and machetes killed a Scottish-born geologist in an apparent dispute over mining rights in southeast Kenya, police said Thursday. A lawmaker who knew the geologist said Campbell Bridges,…
