tiabunna's photos with the keyword: mine

The headworks of the former Geevor tin mine. That red door really leaps from the image, I promise I haven't boosted the colour. :-) So what's it about? See the first PiP. The other PiPs are of an outdoor museum, an old waterwheel and an ore stamper. Well, being Friday, all I can say is HFF and best wishes for the weekend, everyone. Explored.

Captains Flat is usually known to locals simply as "The Flat". It's pretty quiet these days. Taken from near the former mine entrance (see note for old shot of miners at the entrance and the top of the shaft).

This was the railway loader for the captains Flat mine, where ore concentrate was dropped from hoppers into railway wagons, then weighed with scales in the lower hut. The image now has some historic value, as the loader was demolished in 2010. Explored.

The "Lake George Mine" in Captain's Flat closed in 1962. Mining for gold and copper had begun there almost a century earlier. In later years, large quantities of silver lead and zinc also were extracted. This was just across the range from our property. HFF!

Lookout over the former pit of the Mt Lyell mine in Tasmania. Fumes from mining and processing operations have devastated the landscape, stripping it of most vegetation and the high rainfall removing the topsoil. Happy Fence Friday!