#lead mines

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Old and new: Disused chimney and pump workings at the Lead Mines near Newtownards with new wind turbines in the background.

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A very handsome male common lizard basking in the bracken at the Lead Mines near Newtownards.

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Painted Lady butterfly resting on a bind weed flower at the Lead Mines, Newtownards.

There has been an explosion of these beautiful insects these last few days. Hopefully they’ll stay to brighten the rest of our summer and distract us from the madness that is current affairs 😳😖

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Mineral Fights--Civil War Battles for Southwestern Virginia's Lead and Salt

Wythe County galena (Photograph by Robert Whisonant). This sample from Wythe County has galena and calcite crystals.  The lead in galena was used for Confederate bullets during the Civil War. Here is another article on geology in Southwestern Virginia. Robert C. Whisonant, “Mineral Fights–Civil War Battles for Southwestern Virginia’s Lead and Salt,” The Smithfield Review, Vol. II, 1998, pp.…

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Geology and the Civil War in Southwestern Virginia: The Wythe County Lead Mines

Geologic map of Wythe County, Va. with part of Pulaski Co. : products of soil, ores, rocks, railways, roads, furnaces, etc. Map by Charles Rufus Boyd. Published: Philadelphia : J.L. Smith, 1890, c1888. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. Zoom image of the above map’s legend. I came across this article in Virginia Minerals, a publication of the Division of Mineral…

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Harris Hawk (21070) by Jonathan Clark Via Flickr: This was an unexpected treat. A Harris hawk isn't something you expect to find sitting in a tree at the Lead Mines in Newtownards but there it was. Sadly, it was a falconry bird and it's handler was close by (and kindly allowed me to take a few shots). Beautiful bird and a first for me!

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Environmental Storytelling: Compelling Narratives From Idaho, Michigan, California, Iowa and Vietnam, on the new book shelf

“The Coeur d'Alenes, a twenty-five by ten mile portion of the Idaho Panhandle, is home to one of the most productive mining districts in world history. For decades local waters were fouled with tailings from the mining district's more than one hundred mines and mills and the air surrounding Kellogg, Idaho was laced with lead and other toxic heavy metals issuing from the Bunker Hill Company's smelter. The same industrial processes that damaged the environment and harmed human health, however, also provided economic sustenance to thousands of local residents and a string of proud, working-class communities. Living with Lead endeavors to untangle the costs and benefits of a century of mining, milling, and smelting in a small western city and the region that surrounds it.” -- Provided by publisher

“Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land conservation adventure story set in the Great Lakes heartland. The story spans more than forty years, following the fate of a magnificent sand dune on Lake Michigan and the people who care about it. Author and narrator Heather Shumaker shares the remarkable untold stories behind protecting land and creating new nature preserves. Written in a compelling narrative style, the book is intended in part as a case study for landscape-level conservation and documents the challenges of integrating economic livelihoods into conservation and what it really means to "preserve" land over time.” -- Provided by publisher

"Barret Baumgart's literary debut, China Lake, presents a haunting and deeply personal portrait of civilization poised at the precipice, a picture of humanity caught between its deepest past and darkest future. In the fall of 2013, during the height of California's historic drought, Baumgart toured the remote military base, NAWS China Lake, near Death Valley, California. His mother, the survivor of a recent stroke, decided to come along for the ride. She hoped the alleged healing power of the base's ancient Native American hot springs might cure her crippling headaches. Stalking the fringes of Internet conspiracy, speculative science, and contemporary archaeology, Baumgart weaves memoir, military history, and investigative journalism in a dizzying journey that carries him from the cornfields of Iowa to drought-riddled California, from the Vietnam jungle to the caves of prehistoric Europe and eventually the walls of the US Capitol, the sparkling white hallways of the Pentagon, and straight into the contradicted heart of a worldwide climate emergency"-- Provided by publisher

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Over 10,000 words on my EPQ...

So this is where my life has gone...