//Dyatayavo quarries
camera: Samsung Galaxy S25
#abandoned #quarries #digger
Last of the summer...
I sold this #photo a few days ago. Someone bought a #greetingcard with this as an #image
https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/panorama-the-quincy-quarries-adam-gladstone.html
#fedigiftshop #ayearforart #buyintoart #nature #naturephotography #fineartamerica #faa #Quincy #quincyma #quarries #landscapephotography
I've seen many manganese quarries and mines, but never one quite like this. Repeated piles of stones, apparently spoil heaps but they are quite odd. The narrow vein must have been chased on the surface.
The landscape is almost all sandstone and mudstone, about half a billion years old.
A fairly brief write-up on my visit to a couple of small slate quarry ventures earlier in the week (free to read):
https://henebioncymru.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/quarry-water/
#heritage #history #cymru #wales #slate #quarries #archaeology #IA
Some photographic meditation at Dinorwig slate quarry, north Wales.
#quarries #heritage #unesco #slate #northwales #mountains #industry #photography
Final report on the Dorothea quarry tunnel, north Wales:
#railways #quarries #archaeology #wales #cymru #slate #llechi
The Nantlle Tramway (Dorothea) Tunnel: a survey, before it collapses. John Rowlands, March 2024. Please note that this structure, lying on private property, is protected by law as both a Scheduled structure under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 and as a Listed Building under ...