#kennecott

[supplyside]

Kennecott Copper Mine, Utah

[usedcarheaven]

Copperton, Utah 1952

[tripstipsandtees]

Discover Kennicott Glacier Lodge: An Alaskan Hidden Gem

Don't miss this serene getaway in the stunning Alaskan wilderness!

Get ready for an incredible adventure at Kennicott Glacier Lodge! This unique and storied hotel overlooks Root Glacier in Alaska’s Wrangell St. Elias National Park. It’s not just a place to stay – it’s a gateway to stunning landscapes and extraordinary experiences. Kennicott Glacier Lodge: Getting There This extraordinary lodge finds its home in the historic mining town of Kennicott. It is…

[nicholas-the-paleomancer]

Key point hiding in the tags. A fully electric energy grid to replace fossil fuels needs a breathtaking amount of metal. So, reconciling that AND environmental/pollution/land rights concerns crucial.

The Bingham Canyon Mine is an open-pit mine in Salt Lake City, Utah. At 2.5 miles (4 km) wide and 0.75 miles (1.2 km) deep, it is the largest man made excavation in the world. It is also considered to have produced more copper than any other mine in history – more than 17,000,000 tons.

40.523000°, -112.151000°

Source imagery: Maxar

[gameraboy2]

Bingham Copper Mine, Utah

[iamthepulta]

That post with a bunch of open pit mines and "your culture" has me losing my mind at 8am lol.

This is what not teaching history, metallurgy, and resource management in school does to a society. Everyone is getting a lesson on Indian diamonds, Nigerian iron, SW turquoise, and Cyprus copper tonight.

[my-sandwich-it-was-innocent]

If you wanna know what happens to an area that has a copper mine look up Bingham Kennecott copper mine in Utah. No, matter how well they try to hold it it will leak into the well water and from what i understand Lake Superior has a lot of underground water that pours into it. It wasnt even until 1996 that the areas surrounding the Bingham mine were given the ok to drink the well water from a project to reduce the extreme amounts of lead and other materials (which failed im pretty sure because i remember growing up drinking from the hose in the affected area and it always tastes to this day a hint sweeter aka lead) and they have to treat the tap water with so many chemicals it actually tastes like a pool and no one drinks from the tap (pretty sure it gave my dad kidney stones)

(this is the runoff from the mines btw)

Kennecott has stored those same ponds near the Great Salt Lake for years and due to over use of the local fresh water for water guzzling plants in a desert (another issue that pisses me off) the lake is actually expected to disappear leaving highly toxic materials from all sorts of mining operations to blow dust all over the biggest city in the state that already has inversion issues that trap polluted air.

That isnt even mentioning how it will affect the wildlife. When those same toxic materials got drained from and old mining lake into a fresh stream. It killed nearly ALL of the fish, imagine what that would do to Lake Superior. The mini ocean it is.

And to top it off heres and image or 2 of how massive that mine is. Theyve literally dugout a mountain and these pictures give no justice to how big it is in person to look at the horizon

Please take a moment to read this. A Canadian company wants to build a sulfide copper mine near Lake Superior, which holds 21% of the world’s freshwater. The mine would produce 98.5% toxic waste, stored in a dam just two miles from the lake. The dam can only withstand a 1-in-100-year storm, but the area has had two 1-in-1,000-year storms in the past decade. If it breaks, toxic water could flood the lake. Copper sulfide mines in the U.S. have consistently contaminated nearby water sources, and this mine could hurt local communities with lower employment, income, and property values. The company wants $50 million in taxpayer funding to move forward. The Michigan Senate is about to vote, if they don’t get the funding they can’t build it.

Sign this petition if you want to prevent this disaster by searching “Protect the Porkies, Protect Lake Superior— Stop the Copperwood Mine!” at change.org.

[111notstraight111]

The view to Kennecott Copper Mine from Riverton Utah

[travelella]

Kennecott Mines, McCarthy, Alaska, USA

Patrick Federi

[mineralsrocksandfossiltalks]

Monday Musings: Where does copper come from?

First, native copper (pure copper) is incredibly rare so when you hear about copper mines, it is not native copper that is being referred to. Instead, copper ore is mined.

What is an ore you ask? An ore is a naturally occurring solid material from which a metal or valuable mineral can be profitably extracted.

For copper, the most important ore rocks are chalcopyrite,

Bornite,

and malachite.

Over 50% of the world's copper comes from the first two ores. How are these ores produced in the first place?

Chalcopyrite forms in several different ways. One way is through volcanic-associated hydrothermal events in submarine environments. In modern terms, we call these black smokers. There's a lot more I could say on this but I don't want to turn this into a mile long post.

Another source is sedimentary exhalative deposits. These also occur in the ocean when salt water leaches metals out of clastic sedimentary rocks.

Yet another source is Kambalda type komatiitic nickel ore deposits where is forms from an immiscible sulfide liquid in sulfide-saturated ultramafic rocks. In this case chalcopyrite is more of an accessory mineral.

Bornite, also known as peacock ore because it's flippin gorgeous,

Like chalcopyrite, it can form through hydrothermal precipitation. It can also occur with pegmatites (igneous rocks with very large crystals),

contact metamorphism,

and cupriferous shales (copper-rich).

The largest source of copper ore is Chile with the U.S. coming in second. The largest copper mine in the States is Bingham Canyon Mine better known as the Kennecott Mine. I actually work fairly close to this mine.

Another, former, copper mine I am fairly familiar with is the Berkeley Pit in Butte, MT. This mine is a nasty mess and has killed a large number of snow geese due to its high acidity. Currently, there is a type of protozoan that has adapted to the harsh conditions of the pit. This is a lesson in cleaning up mining operations properly when they are completed.

So, in conclusion, copper ores are associated with volcanism to one extent or another. So, if you want to find copper minerals or like start your own copper mine, make sure you look for sulfide deposits near volcanic rocks.

Tune in tomorrow for some more copper trivia! Fossilize you later!

[loneberry]

September 11, 1973: On the 50th Anniversary of the Coup in Chile 

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile, when a fascist junta led by dictator Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. For those of us who are on the left, the story should be familiar by now: Allende had charted a ‘Chilean way to socialism' ("La vía chilena al socialismo") quite distinct from the Soviet Union and communist China, a peaceful path to socialism that was fundamentally anti-authoritarian, combining worker power with respect for civil liberties, freedom of the press, and a principled commitment to democratic process. For leftists who had become disillusioned with the Soviet drift into authoritarianism, Chile was a bright spot on an otherwise gloomy Cold War map.

What happened in Chile was one of the darkest chapters in the history of US interventionism. In August 1970, Henry Kissinger, who was then Nixon’s national security adviser, commissioned a study on the consequences of a possible Allende victory in the upcoming Chilean presidential election. Kissinger, Nixon, and the CIA—all under the spell of Cold War derangement syndrome—determined the US should pursue a policy of blocking the ascent of Allende, lest a socialist Chile generate a “domino effect” in the region. 

When Allende won the presidency, the US did everything in their power to destroy his government: they meddled in Chilean elections, leveraged their control of the international financial system to destroy the economy of Chile (which they also did through an economic boycott), and sowed social chaos through sponsoring terrorism and a shutdown of the transportation sector, bringing the country to the brink of civil war. Particularly infuriating to the Americans was Allende’s nationalization of the copper mining industry, which was around 70% of Chile’s economy at the time and was controlled by US mining companies like Anaconda, Kennecott and the Cerro Corporation. When the CIA’s campaign of sabotage failed to destroy the socialist experiment in Chile, they resorted to assisting general Augusto Pinochet's plot to overthrow the democratically elected government. What followed was a gruesome campaign of repression against workers, leftists, poets, activists, students, and ordinary Chileans—stadiums were turned into concentration camps where supporters of Allende’s Popular Unity government were tortured and murdered. During Pinochet’s 17-year reign of terror, 3,200 people were executed and 40,000 people were detained, tortured, or disappeared, 1,469 of whom remain unaccounted for. Chile was then used as a laboratory for neoliberal economic policies, where the Chicago boys and their ilk tested out their terrible ideas on a population forced to live under a military dictatorship.

It shatters my heart, thinking about this history. I feel a personal attachment to Chile, not only because my partner is Chilean (his father left during the dictatorship), but because I’ve always considered Chile to be a world capital of poetry and anti-authoritarian leftism. The filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky asks, “In how many countries does a real poetic atmosphere exist? Without a doubt, ancient China was a land of poetry. But I think, in the 1950s in Chile, we lived poetically like in no other country in the world.” (Poetry left China long ago — oh how I wish I’d been around to witness the poetic flowering of the Tang era!) Chile has one of the greatest literary traditions of the twentieth century, producing such giants as Bolaño and Neruda, and more recently, Cecilia Vicuña and Raúl Zurita, among others. 

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coup, the Harvard Film Archive has been  screening Patricio Guzmán’s magisterial trilogy, The Battle of Chile, along with a program of Chilean cinema. I watched part I and II the last two nights and will watch part III tonight. It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of Guzmán’s work, and even quoted his beautiful film Nostalgia for the Light in the conclusion of my book Carceral Capitalism, when I wrote about the Chilean political prisoners who studied astronomy while incarcerated in the Atacama Desert. Bless Patricio Guzmán. This man has devoted his life and filmmaking career to the excavation of the Chilean soul. 

Parts I and II utterly destroyed me. I left the theater last night shaken to my core, my face covered in tears. 

The films are all the more remarkable when you consider it was made by a scrappy team of six people using film stock provided by the great documentarian Chris Marker. After the coup, four of the filmmakers were arrested. The footage was smuggled out of Chile and the exiled filmmakers completed the films in Cuba. Sadly, in 1974, the Pinochet regime disappeared cameraman Jorge Müller Silva, who is assumed dead. 

It’s one thing to know the macro-story of what happened in Chile and quite another to see the view from the ground: the footage of the upswell of support for radical transformation, the marches, the street battles, the internal debates on the left about how to stop the fascist creep, the descent into chaos, the face of the military officer as he aims his pistol at the Argentine cameraman Leonard Hendrickson during the failed putsch of June 1973 (an ominous prelude to the September coup), the audio recordings of Allende on the morning of September 11, the bombing of Palacio de La Moneda—the military is closing in. Allende is dead. The crumbling edifice of the presidential palace becomes the rubble of revolutionary dreams—the bombs, a dirge for what was never even given a chance to live.

[20th-century-railroading]

MKT 330, Council Bluffs, IA

Katy grain train power lays over at Union Pacific's Council Bluffs service track. When the MKT picked up Rock Island's OKT trackage they went on a used locomotive buying spree which included GP's from ICG, CR, and KCC. MKT330, a GP38AC, and the ex Kennecott Copper GP39-2 (one of 8) were part of that acquisition.

The MKT trackage rights to Council Bluffs were concessions granted to the Katy as part of the UP/MP/WP 1982 merger. With the purchase of the MKT by UP, the Council Bluffs-KC trackage rights were granted to the KCS, who operates over a circuitous BNSF route instead of the UP to reach Council Bluffs. Those rights now have rolled over to CP Rail.

3-1-87

[guerrerense]

NNRY 109 in shop area, Ely, Nevada por Jim Pearson Por Flickr: Nevada Northern Railway brakeman Nick Scheresky signals to the engineer on locomotive 109 to go ahead and clear the switch, as they head back toward the engine house at Ely, Nevada on February 11th, 2022. Locomotive #109 Alco RS-3 built in 1950, 78426, 1800 (1200) hp, 1370 produced. It was bought new by Kennecott in November of 1950 for EX-Ray Mines but was never delivered to them. It was sent to Kennecott Copper Corp and was later sold to LA Department of Water and Power and now is in service at the Nevada Northern. According to Wikipedia: “The Nevada Northern Railway Museum is a railroad museum and heritage railroad located in Ely, Nevada and operated by a historic foundation dedicated to the preservation of the Nevada Northern Railway. Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 280mm, f/5.6, 1/800, ISO 360. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #jimpearsonphotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #steamtrains #nevadanorthernrailway

[pinewoodpipit]

so long, we become the flowers - Cowboy AU - Fic Beginning Meta

So, "we become the flowers", a.k.a. my cowboy au is finally out and being worked on! I'm super excited to be posting this. I'm delighted to have gotten it done already as I was hoping to have it posted before the 17th to celebrate the RDR re-port hahah. I got lucky!

Here is a link to the fic midpoint meta, posted along with chapter 5!

Here is a link to the post-fic meta, posted after the fic was completed!

-

General thoughts

This fic is meant to be a western style of story, and as such I wanted to follow one of the three western storylines (bounty hunting, revenge, and political stories). I chose revenge! Bounty hunting is technically in there too, but I’d call this more of a revenge story than one about picking up a bounty.

I kind of blended this Western revenge genre with Austen-style romance because ooughh,,, the romantic and homoerotic tension in wanting someone SO BADLY but not being allowed to make a move for fear of scandal… it’s tasty stuff.

The au is meant to be set in a fantasy alternate - real-world in many ways, but flowers can bloom whenever I feel like it because I want cute flowers throughout the fic. I wanted an early-spring discussion in the beginning of this fic, but Fade gives her a peony, which bloom starting from late spring.

The town was named Vennecoate both as a reference to Venice and also to Bloodwritten Silver. I chose Venice as the inspiration behind Venshire in that fic and I liked the reasoning well enough to do the same here - that reasoning being Venice is both a huge part of Valorant lore and also where the training range is. I just like it! I chose this specific naming style after a real old western town, too - Kennecott in Alaska, which was a mining camp abandoned after natural resources dried up in 1938. It’s a national historic landmark now and can be visited.

Fade and Neon are called Hazal and Tala in this au, but like I did with bloodwritten silver, I’ll be calling them and other named characters by their codenames just for my own sake in meta posts.

Neon’s dog is called Kidlat which means lightning… bc “lightning strike”… she has Lightning and Strike… I’ll go now

-

Moodboards

I made mood boards for Fade and Neon’s rough looks, as well as examples of their horses with their counterparts in RDR2. I also have Sims of them and their horses which I’ve shared before!

I’ve made more moodboards for this fic, but those are spoilers which I’ll only show in the fic ending meta…

Someone on Discord actually drew these guys too, and they managed to NAIL the exact vibe I was going for without ever even seeing the moodboards. Huge shoutout to WissyDumb / wizzul on discord! Sharing these with their permission of course.

They don’t have their piercings in the fic (piercings wouldn’t become commonly used until around the 1950s) and Fade actually has some trauma related to infection and disease (we’ll learn more about this later), so she wouldn’t risk it even if they were commonly worn at this time.

-

Playlist

I have a playlist for this fic of course, as I do with all of my larger projects. I imagine this will continue to grow as I work on the fic but I'll share the songs on there so far!

In A Week - Hozier (where the fic's title comes from)

Throne - Saint Mesa

Beautiful Crime - Tamer

Mausoleum - Rafferty

notre dame - Paris Paloma

Habibi - Tamino

Setting Sun - Lord Huron

The Night We Met - Lord Huron

You're Gonna Go Far, Kid - The Offspring

Dangerous Woman - Ariana Grande

the fruits - Paris Paloma

labour - Paris Paloma

Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne

Eyes on Fire - Blue Foundation

Hey, Little Songbird - Hadestown

She - dodie

Let Me In - Snowmine

Coyotes - Modest Mouse

Can't Help Falling in Love - Haley Reinhart

The Wolf - PHILDEL

Hand of God - Outro - Jon Bellion

Breathe (In The Air) - Pink Floyd

The Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd

Family of Me - Ben Folds

All Along the Watchtower - Bear McCreary

My Name is Carnival - Stranded Horse

Requiem on Water - Imperial Mammoth

Short Change Hero - The Heavy

Little Girl Gone - CHINCHILLA

I Wish A Bitch Would - Delilah Bon

One of Us - The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride

No Surprises - Radiohead

Something About Us - Daft Punk

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

Creep - Radiohead

Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues

Blood In The Wine - AURORA

Rawhide - Frankie Laine (hahah)

I See Red - Everybody Loves an Outlaw

House of The Rising Sun - Five Finger Death Punch

The Yawning Grave - Lord Huron

Burn The Witch - Shawn James

Grow as We Go - Ben Platt

Spectre - Radiohead

Long Long Time - Linda Ronstadt

Arsonist's Lullabye - Hozier

Pretty Little Head - Eliza Rickman

Never Love an Anchor - The Crane Wives

That Unwanted Animal - The Amazing Devil

Cowboy Casanova - Carrie Underwood

What Makes A Good Man? - The Heavy

Asleep - The Smiths

The Everlasting Muse - Belle and Sebastian

Layla - Derek & the Dominos

Senden Daha Güzel - Duman

Resistance - Muse

We Could Be The Same - Istanbul - maNga

Last Flowers - Radiohead

Man of War - Radiohead

WHEWW this is a long one. Sorry!

[laceyflanaganyarmouth]

Abandoned Tourist Destinations

Abandoned Tourist Destinations https://ift.tt/uCJoBdH There are countless abandoned places worldwide, from massive cities to peaceful islands. We think it’s important to share the stories of these ruins, as nature often reclaims them. Some of these have creepy legends, but others were left behind as the world moved on. While visiting abandoned places is fun, it can also be dangerous to go inside these structures. Always ask for permission before entering these areas to avoid getting in trouble. Here are some of the most fascinating abandoned destinations. Kennecott, Alaska The town of Kennecott was once the center of a massive copper mining operation. After the ore ran out, the town was abandoned in 1938. Today, the vast buildings can be found in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park. Guided tours and stories about the town’s past are available throughout the summer and autumn. Craco, Italy Despite its beautiful location, the residents of Craco abandoned the town due to various factors. One of these is its location, which is on top of a hill. Earthquakes, landslides, and calamities have hit the area. Despite its negative history, the town has become a popular tourist destination. Bodie, California During the 1870s and 1880s, the town of Bodie was full of people as gold was discovered in the area. It was eventually declared a state historic park. Some parts of the town are still in a state of decay, referred to as “arrested decay.” Spreepark, Germany In Berlin, Germany, there is a “Speepark.” It was once full of attractions, but it started to lose popularity after the owners relocated some of its most popular attractions to Peru. The Berlin government purchased the land where the park was located in 2014. It then continued to offer tours until the end of 2014. Canfranc Train Station, Spain The train station located on the Spanish and French border was called the Casablanca of the Pyrenees during the Second World War. Following a freight train derailing in 1970, the facility was closed. Today, some parts of the station are still operational. Kilchurn Castle, Scotland The word “dreamy” comes to mind when talking about Kilchurn Castle, located in Scotland. It was once the home of some of the country’s aristocrats. The castle is a popular tourist destination for people looking for a self-drive getaway. The post Abandoned Tourist Destinations first appeared on Lacey Flanagan | Travel. via Lacey Flanagan | Travel https://ift.tt/jN89ClZ March 05, 2023 at 10:55AM

[gameraboy2]

Meet Skimpy Wiring, 1956 ad for Kennecott Copper Corporation