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800AluLynmouth.jpg (64904 bytes)
taken August 1994
The ALCAN Aluminium works at Lynemouth, just north of Ashington. To smelt the imported alumina powder into aluminium, cheap electricity had to be generated. This was done by having a dedicated power station (390MW) to supply the works, complete with its own coal mine nearby http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=429500&Y=590500&zoom=3 |
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Walking
drag-lines at a site seen from Chevington Woods, looking east.
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=422500&Y=599500&A=Y&Z=3 800Drag1.jpg (143914 bytes) taken August 1994 |
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The
pattern of working an open-cast pit can be seen here. The
surface layers, which are of no interest to the miners, are
stripped off, and removed. Once the dragline has worked its seam
of minerals, the overburden can be replaced, behind the
machine.
800Drag2.jpg (87196 bytes) taken August 1994 |
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The
scale of these machines can be judged, in the absence of a human
scale object, but the size of its cab.
800Drag3.jpg (131946 bytes) taken August 1994 |
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800Restore.jpg (118892 bytes)
taken August 1994
Restoration of an open-cast site appears to be the likely explanation in this picture, possibly just south of Widdrington on the A1068 road, looking east. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=425815&Y=594585&A=Y&Z=3 |
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Alnmouth |
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800Alnmouth.jpg (81468 bytes)
taken August 1994
Alnmouth http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=424615&Y=610418&A=Y&Z=3 |
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