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Joaquin Montoro
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 Posted: May 14, 2011 06:40 Post subject: Mining hand made crafts |
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Hi all, I open this thread to show you a little sample about mining kits I've made using plastic pieces from old toys I had at home.
As long as I think there isn't anything like these on line, I hope you like the work I'm going to show in this and next posts.
Greetings and enjoy!
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| This headframe is inspirated in one who exists in the School of Mining Engineering at Cartagena (Murcia, Spain). This old headframe was made of wood and gave its service at one of the many lead-zinc mines in the Cartagena-La Unión range. |
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| The "El Cobre mine" metallic headframe, Linares (Jaén, Spain). A classic mine of this famous lead district, closed in 1991, and today abandoned. |
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| A little wood headframe like those that were used in La Unión district (Murcia, Spain). Note the shaft access too. |
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Joaquin Montoro
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| Posted: May 14, 2011 07:00 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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Now a typical gold mine like those that were opened along the "Wild West". This is a tunnel mine with the mining office built over the entrance...
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| The gold obtained is saved into the mining office. |
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| General view of the mining works. Note the typical desert environment. |
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TheBrickPrinter
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| Posted: May 14, 2011 07:45 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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Wow, a mineral collector that builds with LEGO. Thought I was the only one out there in the world. Although I really do not really build, but provide a service for real builders. I do make labels for specimens out of LEGO parts, though.
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Joaquin Montoro
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| Posted: May 14, 2011 08:07 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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Really I use old Lego pieces, a chinese copy of Lego whose pieces fit with Lego (more cheaper) and some made with a Spanish construction toy called Tente, like these I show next...
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| The Almaden mercury mines, in Ciudad Real province (Spain). We can see the headframe of the San Teodoro shaft, and the offices and smelting installations. Made with Tente pieces. |
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| Detail of the San Teodoro shaft headframe, a classic postcard from Almaden. This shaft, now closed, was more than 500 metres deep. |
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| Metallic headframe of the San Aquilino shaft, Almaden Mines (Spain) The richest mercury deposit in the Earth. |
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Joaquin Montoro
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| Posted: May 14, 2011 12:02 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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Another model, inspirated in a German coal mine...
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| Posted: May 15, 2011 12:22 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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Hi Joaquin, how cool ist that!?! I always used to be a fanatic LEGO builder as a child, even today i'm still fascinated by that stuff. But what a great idea to create models of mining buildings out of LEGO - it combines two wonderful hobbies ;-)
Btw: Do you know which German coal mine it was that inspired you to build that model?
Cheers!
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Joaquin Montoro
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| Posted: May 15, 2011 13:25 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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Hi Tobias,
I tell you that the real model of that mine is a general idea after I saw some pics of German coal mines (I suppose along the Ruhr region), so that kit is a combination of buildings, headframe and chimneys only in a "German style".
See now an "English style" in the next mine I show...
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| Typical Cornish tin mine (XIX-XX century). |
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| Posted: May 15, 2011 17:26 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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A variation on these would make good kits for mining museum gift shops. Very nice. But a bit of blasphemy to use non-LEGO pieces. Kind of like lab grown crystals. You might want to check out Bricklink dot com --a good place to buy new LEGO by the piece needed. There are lots of European stores on it that sell LEGO(tm) elements. Chinese minerals are nice, but Chinese knockoffs of LEGO are just that --knockoffs . Stick with the original.
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Joaquin Montoro
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| Posted: May 16, 2011 12:59 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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A mining model more...
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| Large headframe inspirated in the Asturian style of coal mines. These are common in Northern Spain. |
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| Posted: May 16, 2011 13:39 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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| How long does it take from getting an idea until a new model is built?
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Joaquin Montoro
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| Posted: May 16, 2011 14:29 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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If I have time to do...no more than one day.
I've built some models in a couple of hours (I take more time looking for the pieces in the box)...others a complete day. I don't remember have spent more time.
Cheers Tobias
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| An old mine like some that existed in La Unión range (Spain), whose headframe was built with stone bricks (masonry). |
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| A little and old winch, moved by a horse, to get the ore from the shaft. A primitive system before modern headframes. |
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| An actual image: mining truck to load tons of ore. |
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| Posted: May 17, 2011 14:27 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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Another invented model...
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| Mining complex. You can see two headframes, with their machine houses, a chimney and a hopper with a conveyor belt to deposit the mineral from the shafts. |
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Darren
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| Posted: May 17, 2011 15:50 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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These are really cool! My 9 year old son is a mineral collecting LEGO fanatic and loved them all - thanks for sharing!
Darren
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Joaquin Montoro
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| Posted: May 18, 2011 06:33 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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Thanks for your words Darren, I celebrate you like them both.
Greetings from Spain.
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| A metallic headframe (invented). |
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Joaquin Montoro
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| Posted: May 21, 2011 04:48 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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Here you have an exceptionnel hand made model, no other like this in the world. It was made by an ex-miner from La Unión (Spain) using metal and wood.
An authentic copy of the real "San José Mine", what existed at the Cartagena-La Unión range.
I paid $150 for it in 1998, a cheap amount due the good work and details in this mine.
Hope you like...
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| General view, headframe, ore cars and machine house. |
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| An ore car filled with galena. |
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Joaquin Montoro
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| Posted: May 28, 2011 07:33 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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Invented mine, but inspirated in those what were in the mining range of La Unión (Murcia, Spain) since XIX century...
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| Posted: Jun 01, 2011 05:30 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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This one is an invented mine...headframe over access building, and steam machine house...
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2011 22:05 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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great works I was thinking they were all from lego sets I never seen before but you said you made them from several different building blocks amazing works, so were any of these from an actual kit or are they all just from your own design? I really enjoy the little mining outfit with the miner ourside
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Joaquin Montoro
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| Posted: Jul 17, 2011 02:44 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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Does not exist actually in the market any mining kit for sale like these. So I saw myself in the needed of built a thing that I couldn't buy. This was the result...a series of mining models made all under my own design.
I celebrate you like them.
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Joaquin Montoro
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| Posted: Sep 23, 2011 07:01 Post subject: Re: Mining hand made crafts |
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Now a railroad-mining craft, made a few days ago...
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| Miner train. A Diesel ALCO locomotive and two ore cars to load the mineral. |
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