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"it's not that deep" START DIGGING!!
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My very first tiger drawing and my latest
Your skill level is unquestionable but listen.
I love him.
me also. as well.
This is the COOLEST thing Iāve seen in AGES. You both completely made my entire week.
Happy 25th anniversary, Animal Crossing!
āChange your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.ā
ā Neville Goddard
PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION (2026)
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being obsessed with your partner is so necessary for a healthy relationship. i canāt believe yaāll made that corny. ego is insane.
sent this message to my coworker today and he sent me this screenshot with microsoft teams's suggested replies... incredible 10/10 no notes.
Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like āit takes months or even years to fully recoverā and itās like okayā¦. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday
big fan of whatever the youth is doing to torment scientology buildings
its important to me that all y'all know that mannertee has an arch nemesis
his name is Ikanzame and he's a shark with bad driving etiquette!!
ikanzame!!! your people of virginia desire you carnally!!!!
What the gold rush means to most people: Prospectors! Dusty mine cars on tracks in the wild west! Gold nuggets!
What the gold rush means to an archaeologist: Hmm, where on this 100-acre plot of land covered in contaminated mine tailings do I think these clowns might have buried barrels full of literal cyanide?
How dare you leave this nugget hiding in the notes!
Why were they burying barrels of cyanide? How and why would you even compile enough cyanide to fill multiple barrels???
My friend let me introduce you to the terrifying process of cyanidation, wherein finely crushed ore containing traces of gold is made into a slurry by adding water, then transferred into vats known asĀ āslime separators,ā where potassium cyanide is then added to leach the gold into a liquid. Slaked lime is used to prevent the cyanide from going into full Murder Mode as hydrogen cyanide. The gold is then separated from the cyanide through one of a series of processes that Iām not really qualified to explain, but I think there are a few websites that talk about them if you want to google them.
But the key point here: from what I can tell, cyanide has been the main method of getting gold out of the ground for the last 120 years. (Yes, this process is still used today.) Before this technology came along, instead a thin coating of mercury was spread onto a copper plate, and the ore was allowed to wash over it. The gold stuck to the mercury, creating an amalgam, and then the amalgam was scraped off the plate and the mercury was boiled off (urk) to leave the gold behind.
And when processing mills shut down historically, why bother to dispose of your leftover deadly chemicals properly, when you can just bury them in your local tailings pile, which is already contaminated with mercury and arsenic? The known case of this happening in my local area was revealed through a bloom ofĀ āPrussian Blueā (ferro cyanide) on the surface of the tailings. Luckily, this is a fairly stable form of cyanide. Unluckily, geologists are crazier than archaeologists and they went ahead and dug a sample test unit right next to it, even knowing what it was, because science.
When I said to myself,Ā āIāll be an industrial archaeologist. Itāll be cool,ā I did not foresee the terrifying knowledge it would unleash upon me.
Iām from Goldrush Country and I didnāt know this. All the gold-mining-related historical attractions around here are about good old-fashioned panning and pick-axes. Now Iām incredibly glad Iāve never had any urge to go explore the suspiciously colorful hills left in the wake of various mining operations.
Eek! Please donāt play in tailings piles and outflows folks, they are Bad News.Ā āOh but itās lovely sand we want to take our ATVs out on it and let our kids build sandcastlesā NO. DO NOT.
Reblogging because some desert-dwellers might not know this. Yes, those pretty hills are probably within ATV driving distance of Amargosa, Ocotillo, Buttercup, Superstition or whatever other recreational area you might be camped out at, but rainbow-colored dirt is usually rainbow-colored for toxic reasons!
Absolutely! And bear in mind too, not all tailings are brightly coloured - the ones in my area are just light grey.Ā āSand in spots where sand isnāt commonā is sometimes the only warning sign.
Iām reviving this post because Iām doing up a Health & Safety protocol for digging near a mining site and folks. I did the math based on some recent soil tests. The tailings near my test site contain enough arsenic that ½ teaspoon of soil (tailings) easily contains a fatal dose of arsenic for an adult. Please stay safe and wash your hands thoroughly before eating/drinking/smoking if you arenāt 100% certain what the dirt is like where youāre digging.
And this is why we found a whole quart of mercury in my grandparentās basement! Old timey prospectors would really just do shit.
[Image ID: Tumblr reply from highEmpressOfDirt reading: a different kind of Mine Sweeper /End ID]
This is emphatically not a desert-specific problem, just FYI. All of the contaminated mines Iāve encountered have been in spruce-dominated forests and bogs in Atlantic Canada. This is a worldwide issue.
[Image ID: A screenshot of a tag reading ā#Iām nowhere near a desert but good info for those who areā]
the thing about being "good with kids" is all it takes is literally just not trying to control and mould them with every interaction. it's just being a normal person and engaging with them through normal interactions like having conversations and playing games. it's just being genuine and friendly and not perceiving them as lumps of wet clay you are there to shape. "oh you're so good with kids" thanks it's because I think they are people
Didn't realize they made emergency thermal blankets for babies
It's scary to think about babies in an emergency but I guess it's a crazy world out there
Emergency baby
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