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The repository is constantly seeking donations of mine maps to add to the microfilm/digital collection. [12] When maps are received from a donor, they are scanned and stored in both microfilm and digital archives. The maps, along with a scanned images (upon request), are returned to the donor. The repository does not retain hard copies of maps.
The CONSOL Energy Mine Map Preservation Project is a project to preserve and digitize maps of underground coal mines in Southwestern Pennsylvania.. The project is a joint venture between the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the United States Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining, the University of Pittsburgh University Library System, and CONSOL Energy.
Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), previously known as the MAN TAKRAF RB288 [2] built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded Big Muskie as the heaviest land vehicle in the world, at 13,500 tons. [3]
Prior to the Atlas series, there were dated maps without text or indexes.. 1906 [2] The 1906 map created by Maitland Brown was a major accomplishment to tie in the range of mineral fields and administrative issues regarding mining in the state, when technology had not conquered distances and logistic issues in updating information about discoveries or mines.
Usually the mines are said to contain valuable elements or minerals such as gold, silver or diamonds. Often there is a map or other document allegedly detailing the history or location of the mine. Common to all the lost mine legends is the idea of a valuable and mysterious resource being lost to history.
Bagger 293 shares with Bagger 288 the Guinness World Record for tallest terrestrial vehicle, at 96 metres (315 feet) tall. It is 225 metres (738 feet) long (same as Bagger 287), weighs 14,200 tonnes (31,300,000 lb), and requires five people to operate.
The Mines of Bloodstone is an adventure in which the player characters travel through a blizzard to reach the Bloodstone Mines, through which they can get to the duergar kingdom of Deepearth, and the Temple of Orcus. [1] The adventure begins with a series of village encounters, before some further encounters and difficult weather in a big valley.
The Thacker Pass lithium mine is a lithium clay mining development project in Humboldt County, Nevada, which is the largest known lithium deposit in the US and one of the largest in the world, [5] [6] [7] and is believed by some to have the potential to supply up to 25% of the worlds lithium demand. [8]