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Today I had a small walk around an active quarry near me
This is the old access road. I didnt go up it though, but its not been used in decades.
First views, looking across the new working area
I like this pool and its island. Its nice.
The bank on the right was a lot lower originally, you can actually see the original height and the new spoil that has only been added on top recently. I think this is to protect the new work area from the runoff above.
One of the older drainage pools that still remains (more on that in a minute). Notice something off?
The sign says"Deep Water" but the water, you will note, is actually really shallow. in fact its only a thin skin above the surface. Sure as hell aint deep.
And this is why. I threw a fist sized rock into this, it should be sticking out but its not because this is essentially a bottomless pit of quicksand. Remember newbies, be careful when exploring quarries and sandpits.
Part of the bank between this quicksand pool and the pool next to it had collapsed recently and subsequently shorn up with rock and earth. For reference, these pool, are above the first drainage pool I showed and the bank im on was the one to the left in that image, between these and it.
The duality of pools. Red-brown quicksand to my right, deep turquoise water to my left
Speaking of. No I do not know how deep, no I do not want to find out and no, I would not swim in there if you paid me.
The uppermost drainage pool in this sequence, and the oldest remaining. Its dried out now. Not that I would walk on it anyway.
And over from it, a pond that has formed from another drainage pool that was placed to catch the runoff from the previous produce piles
So, remember I mentioned the old drainage pits and work faces? yeah. Hereish. About 30+ feet down. If I get enough requests ill dig through my old photos, I should still have them. But yeah, there was once a massive working pit here and a pool at the bottom.
This was... Working are.
We will get to this later
Butterfly
Rusty sand, otherwise known as iron sand. Smelt this load and you might have enough for a knife.
The new product piles. I did take a picture of the old ones if people are interested.
Now is later.
The intake chute, raw material is dumped in here
I was getting rather nervous right about now, being up on the walks without any escape route
A tow lug from one of the vehicles. I dont think its been there long, there is no rust stain beneath it.
This is a portable water pump. It used to be up by the deep turquoise drainage pool but they seem to have moved it.
отличная машина from the rear
More drainage gear
I have a couple more, ill post them later. Mostly of the last drainage pond and the current work area.
Today I had a small walk around an active quarry near me
This is the old access road. I didnt go up it though, but its not been used in decades.
First views, looking across the new working area
I like this pool and its island. Its nice.
The bank on the right was a lot lower originally, you can actually see the original height and the new spoil that has only been added on top recently. I think this is to protect the new work area from the runoff above.
One of the older drainage pools that still remains (more on that in a minute). Notice something off?
The sign says"Deep Water" but the water, you will note, is actually really shallow. in fact its only a thin skin above the surface. Sure as hell aint deep.
And this is why. I threw a fist sized rock into this, it should be sticking out but its not because this is essentially a bottomless pit of quicksand. Remember newbies, be careful when exploring quarries and sandpits.
Part of the bank between this quicksand pool and the pool next to it had collapsed recently and subsequently shorn up with rock and earth. For reference, these pool, are above the first drainage pool I showed and the bank im on was the one to the left in that image, between these and it.
The duality of pools. Red-brown quicksand to my right, deep turquoise water to my left
Speaking of. No I do not know how deep, no I do not want to find out and no, I would not swim in there if you paid me.
The uppermost drainage pool in this sequence, and the oldest remaining. Its dried out now. Not that I would walk on it anyway.
And over from it, a pond that has formed from another drainage pool that was placed to catch the runoff from the previous produce piles
So, remember I mentioned the old drainage pits and work faces? yeah. Hereish. About 30+ feet down. If I get enough requests ill dig through my old photos, I should still have them. But yeah, there was once a massive working pit here and a pool at the bottom.
This was... Working are.
We will get to this later
Butterfly
Rusty sand, otherwise known as iron sand. Smelt this load and you might have enough for a knife.
The new product piles. I did take a picture of the old ones if people are interested.
Now is later.
The intake chute, raw material is dumped in here
I was getting rather nervous right about now, being up on the walks without any escape route
A tow lug from one of the vehicles. I dont think its been there long, there is no rust stain beneath it.
This is a portable water pump. It used to be up by the deep turquoise drainage pool but they seem to have moved it.
отличная машина from the rear
More drainage gear
I have a couple more, ill post them later. Mostly of the last drainage pond and the current work area.
