#BostonWeekend 18x Sat SOMERVILLE ROCKS 11am 90 min walking tour of the Secret Quarries of #SomervilleMA - starts at Somerville Museum. $15+ https://www.somervillemuseum.org/calendar-events/ghosts-of-somerville-3-5btw9-4n7lx #Boston #SomervilleMuseum #geology #rocks #quarries #quarry #WalkingTour
Secret Quarries of Somerville — Somerville Museum

Visit the city’s oldest burial ground, where friendly ghosts will tell you about their lives in 18th century Somerville. Learn about our city’s past from those who lived it. Part of Somerstreets: Monster Mash Free and Open to th

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Девятаевские каменоломни
//Dyatayavo quarries

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#abandoned #quarries #digger
Small Pond in the Quincy Quarries by Adam Gladstone

Small Pond in the Quincy Quarries by Adam Gladstone

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Panorama the Quincy Quarries by Adam Gladstone

Panorama the Quincy Quarries by Adam Gladstone

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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.

#quarries #mines #drone #mountains #wales #cymru #geology

Quarry Graffiti

A fascinating and almost universally-overlooked aspect of the north Wales slate industry is the graffiti inscribed and, much more rarely, drawn on structures associated with quarrying and mining. T…

Henebion Cymru

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

Quarry Water

The seemingly endless leaden, cold skies of late winter finally cleared on Tuesday, allowing some good sunshine to break through – though it was hardly much warmer! I set off for the heartlan…

Henebion Cymru

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:

https://docdro.id/SfUoFIN

#railways #quarries #archaeology #wales #cymru #slate #llechi

Twnnel_Dorothea.pdf

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 ...