#Mineral County

[eopederson]

Private Property, Mina, Nevada, 2020.

[eopederson2]

Welcome to Montana, Lookout Pass, 2009.

[lies]

Sometimes when I'm birdwatching

[rabbitcruiser]

Wolf Creek Valley Overlook, CO (No. 3)

The Lobo Overlook, at 11,760 feet elevation on the north side of the pass, provides commanding views of the continental divide.

The pass is also home to Wolf Creek ski area located on the eastern side of the Continental Divide on Highway 160. Also on the eastern side is one of the largest RV parks in the United States, located just a few miles west of South Fork, Colorado.

Wolf Creek Pass is also an attraction for tourists, as it is known for the natural beauty of the wilderness the highway passes through. Just west of the pass, Treasure Falls offers passersby a view of a mountain waterfall.

The main route of the Continental Divide Trail (CDT), which reaches from Mexico to Canada, passes through Wolf Creek Pass. North bound "thru hikers" usually hike through Wolf Creek Pass in June.

The pass was named for Wolf Creek, which starts near the top of the pass and flows down its western side to a confluence with the West Fork San Juan River in Mineral County.

Source: Wikipedia

[eopederson45]

Joe's Tavern, Hawthorne, Nevada, 2020.

[iamtryingtobelieve]

"Blasted! Wasted! Busted! 'I think these guys have been experimenting with some controlled substances…' 'Well you ain't just whistlin' Dixie'" Bully (2001) Dir: Larry Clark

[thoughtportal]

Harlan County, USA is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike",[1] a 1973 effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 49th Academy Awards.

It was directed and produced by filmmaker Barbara Kopple, then early in her filmmaking career. A former VISTA volunteer, she had worked on other documentaries, especially as an advocate of workers' rights.

[theoldbone]

Adamite, Cobalt-bearing Adamite, Lanping County, China, photo by Chang Li

[hairtusk]

listened to the in our times episode about robert burns, and weirdly enough, the most memorable line was '...perhaps if wordsworth hadn't gone to cambridge, he'd have written in cumbrian dialect. conversely, attending university might've ruined robert burns.' and now i can't stop imagining the alternative reality where wordsworth had preserved rural cumbrian dialect by writing his poetry in it. my hearts weeps.

[kesara]

Ruins of Miners Village [IMG_3158] by Kesara Rathnayake Via Flickr: Miners Village, Glendalough, County Wicklow, Ireland.

[eopederson]

Joe's Tavern, Hawthorne, Nevada, 2020.

[wildliferehabstudent]

https://gofund.me/a0a870c8

I know water crises are global these days, but the coal miners in west Virginia are getting chemical burns from their water.

And before all the "anti-fossil fuel" people come at me- coal miners are not your enemy. All the creatures that depend on this water are dying. The government is claiming it's safe because they're only testing for bacteria- it's too toxic for most of the bacteria that they test for to survive. You can't boil the smell of paint thinner out of water.

This isn't just a human rights and welfare issues, it's also an extreme environment crisis. These are impoverished, exploited people desperate for help.

Explanation of the GoFundMe is under the cut

This fundraiser is raising money to purchase safe drinking water for people in Wyoming and McDowell Counties in West Virginia's coal camps. All proceeds will go directly to Sweet Springs Institute, Inc, a West Virginia local 501(c)3, and 100% of funds raised will be used to purchase water for local residents.

Currently, thousands of people in these two counties, the poorest counties in the United States, are without access to safe water. Their water comes out in shades of gray, black, and brown, smells like paint thinner, and causes immediate rashes and lesions on the skin. It is not safe to be consumed or even touched.

Independent tests show lead, arsenic, and aluminum levels hundreds of parts per million over the legal safe limits. Local residents have had stream water tested to reveal the water has surfactants in it-- an industrial chemical used to separate coal from impurities.

Residents are collecting water from roadside streams because they cannot afford to purchase water from grocery stores.

The coal and natural gas industries have created horrifying living conditions for West Virginians who have suffered exploitation and poverty to power the country and keep the lights on for over 150 years.

If we end up raising more money than is necessary for the local demand for water, or if state or federal emergency efforts finally respond by providing water, then we will use remaining funds to provide other emergency response provisions to locals that may include food, clothing, water filtration, or independent testing of soil and water safety.

[pengtheplush]

I realize many people might not know what I referred to in my last post, listing ‘sonorous rocks’ as an instrument, so here’s a cool music video that shows what I’m talking about!

[eopederson2]

"Home of the Miners," McKay, Idaho, 2024.

[gregor-samsung]

The Old Oak (Ken Loach, 2023)

[emperornorton47]

Almadine in Schist