#zincmine

[emilylin5]

Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in Norway

by Peter Zumthor

Het museum heeft lange smalle gangen volledig in het zwart. Deze doen denken aan de eindeloze gangen waar mijnwerkers zich in bevinden.

Licht komt uit de verte en laat een spoor achter op de grond. Doordat alles zo donker is, valt het licht nog meer op. 

Van boven schijnt er een straal van licht op de displays. Hiermee worden de objecten belicht.

Zowel in het museum als in het café bestaat het plafond uit rechthoekige “blokken” met verschillende hoogtes. 

Er is vrij weinig gedaan met de vloer. Deze is overal plat/horizontaal.

Het cafe maakt gebruik van kristalachtige lampen op het plafond. Dit is een subtiele maar esthetische toevoeging aan het mijnthema.

[thehimalayantimes]

Government owned, Nepal Metal Company, based in Dhading, has remained closed for the past 12 years. The company has its mining asite stretched along the foot of Mt Ganesh between Dhading’s Rubi Valley and Rasuwas’s Amachhodingmo Rural Municipality. The company has a building constructed some 25 years ago, which has developed cracks in the aftermath of the devastating 2015 earthquakes.  Fifty-two years ago, an engineer from the Indian Birla Company had discovered that the mountain contained huge deposits of zinc and lead. He did so by testing the water flowing down from Mt Ganesh. Following the discovery, Nepali Army had constructed a 105km road to Somdang in the mining site from Nuwakot’s Trisuli. The road construction had started in 1987 and concluded after two years. “The company was closed in the fiscal 2005/06 citing the difficulty to carry out excavation work amidst the armed conflict, but it hasn’t resumed work all these years,” said the company’s former chair Netraraj Poudel.   As per a study, so far the sites containing around 300,000 tonnes of ores in the vicinity of the mountain have been identified.   Photo and Story by Keshav Adhikari for The Himalayan Times #Nepal #Dhading #mine # NepalMetalCompany #GaneshHimal #zincmine https://www.instagram.com/p/CC0rsSWlJzI/?igshid=l2kyuewyat5t

[stephanie-lee-dodd-blog]

Day 3: Norway Study Trip

Allmannajuvet Zinc Mines Project. Sauda, Norway.

Peter Zumthor. 2016.

The Allmannajuvet zinc mines project by Peter Zumthor at Sauda is part of a larger state program of the national tourist route in Norway to create sites enhanced by art and architecture. The zinc mines project was to commemorate the lives of the miners who worked there from 1881-1899. There are three buildings - a toilet and services block, a cafe, and a gallery. The buildings appear as boxes held up or hanging from the rock in timber post and beam structures.. The boxes are black inside and out, and are made from plywood covered with jute and then coated with black PMMA. The boxes are dark inside with ceilings of differing heights to give the feeling of being underground in the mine. The texture of the black walls, rather than just being flat and painted black, creates an even ‘blacker’ experience as the undulations of the jute create small, rhythmic shadows that suck more of the light away, making the inside spaces even darker.

The most impressive thing to me was the way the displays in the gallery were lit. Rather than using artificial light - as I assumed on first glance - the items and books of the gallery are lit using small windows of just the right sized and angled to bring light exactly onto the displays. I was completely stunned by that.

Another observation I had when looking at the buildings and trying to decipher why the boxes were held up on timber legs like suspended caves is that for a mine the timber structure is a marker for the entry to the mineshaft. So in this project, the timber marks the entrance to the suspended caves. I only came to this thought as on the drive to the project we passed what must have been an entrance to a mine which had a small timber shelter protruding from the tunnel entrance. I feel that element shows how Zumthor must have reflected on all the elements that comprise the mine. The timber legs teetering on the rocks could also reflect the precarious and dangerous nature of mining. During the group discussion, others posited that the reason for lifting these boxes up and leaving considerable space underneath the boxes reflects the practice of excavating resources from a mountain, which can look solid from the outside yet is hollow underneath.

I was really astounded by the atmosphere created and the thought behind each part of this design. We were so lucky to have so much time to explore, sketch, and ruminate on every element of this project.

[3rdeyeopener-blog]

Indigenous cultures ALL over the world need your attention right now. These attacks are ongoing and are NOT limited to the concentration camps of the states, I mean, “Reservations”... how disgusting what we’ve allowed. Those are PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS! #MakeAmericaIndigenousAgain Repost from @howlatme #Nativerights and women are under attack in #Peru: @saphichay emergency!!!! More #photos from the #frontlines of #Espinar in #Cusco ... #miningcompany #GlencoreAntapaccay with the support of the #PeruNationalPolice are attacking innocent native women defending their land and rights !!! Please spread the word and let’s get pressure placed on this company !!!! Also if you can please help us get representatives of the community out to #Huancayo where #Saphichay is helping them connected with allies to spread widely what is going on and to help with developing solutions. You can donate to- www.saphichay.org and please put ESPINAR so we know that donation is particularly for that cause. Once again thank you !!!! #humanrightsAbuse #defendindigenouspeople #resist #supportTheResistance #coppermine #zincmine #Antapaccay #Xstrata #Tintaya #extractiveindustries #glencore

[thomasoutt]

#JoplinMissouri, incorporated #1873, straddling two counties, #JasperCounty & #NewtonCounty. A combination of #ZincMining & #RailroadConstruction lead to the formation of the city from the founding date till shortly after WorldWarI. Afterwards, economic shifts, were more driven by agricultural markets & and the ongoing needs of a to supply & support a population that leveled out @ approximately 51,000-Much of Joplin was destroyed and/or damaged by a massive tornado 🌪 22 May 2011. Nicknamed #JoMo, it has managed to survive being part of #TornadoAlley & has had far more damage inflicted on it by the #WaltonFamily, whose insatiable greed created the massive Walmart that destroyed much of the downtown section of the city far more than any tornado could. #RefrigeratorMagnetsOfTheWorld presents #Joplin. (at Joplin, Missouri)

[luspecialcollections]

Zinc mining at Friedensville Zinc Mines. #lehighu #lehighuniversity #zinc #zincmine #friedensville #uppersaucon #mining #miningtruck https://ift.tt/2K7r37O

[ffmourao]

Peter Zumthor . Zinc Mine