====== schedule/M+J dates ====== AUG: **M** free 15-31. **J** free 01-18 SEPT: **M** free 8-16 **J** in Berlin 8-16, (11th -Leuphana/Berlin meet) OCT: **M** free 12-30 **J** free 8-27 NOV: **M** free 1-18, 24-30 **J** free (only from)26-31 DEC: **M** free JAN:** M** free TCoT 15-18 Jan 214. ====== locations/field trips ====== ===== Quarries (steinbruchen) ===== near Berlin: Ruedersdorf (now more park but...) Schlabendorf, Drebkau, Cottbus and around there see: http://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/gpsmap.php?lid=348 Bad Freienwalde: * http://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/Deutschland/Brandenburg/Bad%20Freienwalde/Tongruben?sections=2&showM=1&lokationid=349 * http://mineralienforum.siteboard.eu/viewtopic.php?t=167&p=8981 Steinbruch Petersberg (incl. copper re. heap leaching - well not much of that) * http://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/Deutschland/Sachsen-Anhalt/Saalekreis/Petersberg/Quarzporphyrwerk ===== field trips/schedule ===== 12 July: Bad Freienwalde: Tongrube 12-15 September: Erzgebirge October/November: Harz (or return to Erzgebirge) vs. Berlin locale (for concrete works) ===== To visit: ===== ==== Erzgebirge: ==== http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore_Mountains poss. locations: Niederschlema-Alberoda (near Bad Schlema): looks promising? http://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/Deutschland/Sachsen/Chemnitz%2C%20Direktionsbezirk/Erzgebirgskreis/Schlema-Alberoda-Hartenstein http://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/gpsmap.php?lid=558 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schacht_371 and: http://www.mindat.org/loc-224035.html - zeppelin shafts http://www.mindat.org/loc-30157.html - Himmlisch Heer Mine (seems be tourist mine: http://www.erzgebirge-tourismus.de/en/bergbau-kultur/tourist-mines-visitor-galleries/?tx_snmbur_pi1[excursion]=2&tx_snmbur_pi1[action]=show&cHash=3c5a7d1bb347d306034e72730474624c) both are in Annaberg region... http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s001260050217.pdf&sa=U&ei=yC0bUoTeNsyKhQeL8IGQBg&ved=0CBsQFjAB&usg=AFQjCNFpvVKYbm8XH5r6FRhR1J8d8sSoXw general: uranium mines... see WISMUT: http://www.wise-uranium.org/uwis.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismut_%28mining_company%29 Heap leaching of low grade ores with sulfuric acid was performed on a large scale at Wismut's Gessental-pile at Ronneburg (7 million tonnes) and in Königstein (2 million tonnes). http://tw.strahlen.org/fundorte.html http://www.wolkersdorfer.info/projects/Lydia_txt.htm ==== Harz mountains ==== : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_the_Upper_Harz (incl. ponds and channels) St Andreasberg: http://www.mindat.org/loc-240571.html (silver slag heaps) http://www.mindat.org/loc-13516.html (lead/copper ores) http://www.lehrbergwerk.de/content/view/111/90/ (silver/copper/lead ores) **Abandoned quarry** Located 1.5 km south of St Andreasberg. http://www.mindat.org/loc-21475.html Herzog Julius smelter (slag locality), Astfeld, Harz http://www.mindat.org/loc-6026.html slag heaps: http://www.raymond-faure.com/Bergbau/Lautenthal_Bergbau.html http://www.raymond-faure.com/Bergbau/Innerstetal_Harz.html 2x large slag heaps (scroll down): http://www.raymond-faure.com/Bergbau/Sangerhausen_Bergbau.html ==== misc ==== Copper mine, Thalitter, Vöhl, Hesse, Germany: http://www.mindat.org/loc-16714.html Uraninite Locations: http://www.mindat.org/minlocsearch.php?frm_id=mls&cform_is_valid=1&cf_mls_page=1&minname=uraninite®ion=germany ====== random notes, ideas ====== ===== concrete channeling/fluid logic ===== - each heaps operate as extended noisy logic gates eg. stack materials allow different flows/ diversion of liquids or changes in mass and chained to next heap stack (stack frame heap relations played out) **eg.** cement channels made with dilute sulphuric acid (studio tests) - return to earth, or buried -> local collapses **eg** channeling w. rock softening plants http://www.geopolymer.org/fichiers_pdf/CemPlant.pdf - flows * collect leachates, poisons, toxic for * top down toxic flow * using resistant plates (stone, metal, plastic) to direct flows * allow mixing aeration and watering from heath/bog (eg. weak carbonic acid (rainwater) in pumps, mist sprays) (reaction w. pyrite && chalcopyrite > acid solutions of sulfuric, ferrous, ferric, and copper sulphates) * construct spiked elements as platforms for drying/residue flows * (residue tasting) see also fluid logic but could simply imitate stack pull/push somehow: * fluid logic links basic XOR/AND: http://www.blikstein.com/paulo/projects/project_water.html bubble bits (also chemical payloads): http://web.media.mit.edu/~manup/research/bubble-logic/ eg. concrete/earth 3D versionings of http://web.media.mit.edu/%7Emanup/research/bubble-logic/images/NOT-ANDgate.jpg and http://web.media.mit.edu/%7Emanup/research/bubble-logic/images/AND-OR.jpg where different flows executed with sloped channels also concrete forms inserted in water flows (stream, sewage outflows) ===== peltier-esque ===== - magnetic field generation incl. environmental peltier - ore layers (eg. manganese silicate) combined w. lightning or (much weaker) earth (telluric) batteries -> thermo-emf ('cold spots')/cloud detector orig. peltier was bismuth/antimony and copper wires > small rock ore versionings > [cyano]bacteria added (differentials in temps) ===== bio-leaching ===== - **bioleaching/biomining** - chelating/sequestering heavy metals see http://www.pcbfab.com/waste-treatment/ - link w. algae/plants - mustard plants, alpine pennycress (Thlaspi caerulescens for nickel, zinc & cadmium etc, for uranium add citrate to soil (https://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/jun00/soil0600.htm) - also see http://melchin.org/oeuvre/revival-field && https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thlaspi), hemp, pigweed (see https://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/jun00/soil0600.htm: "One species, a pigweed called Amaranthus retroflexus, was up to 40 times more effective than others tested in removing radiocesium from soil. We were able to remove 3 percent of the total amount in just one 3-month growing season" && https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoremediation) - with fungi: Aspergillus niger, Penicillium simplicissimum bacteria http://www.spaceship-earth.org/REM/Naeveke.htm bacteria suppliers: http://www.ncimb.com/ (£200+) http://www.dsmz.de (200 euros+) - Thiobacillus ferrooxidans (T. ferrooxidans) operate at 2 to 37 °C (growth rate incr. 50% every 6°C) - useful on low grade Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, Chalcocite, Sphalerite (//source//: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/238/1/Jonglertjunya03PhD.pdf) - Funghi of genera Aspergillus and Penicillium incl. the removal of silica from bauxite by using Bacillus mucilaginosus and Bacillus polymyxa, and the solubilisation of aluminum from alumino-silicates by Asperillus niger bacteria & electricity: http://www.nrl.navy.mil/code6900/bug/ and http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Microbial_Fuel_Cells ===== heap leaching ===== for oxide/sulphide ores * natural - rainwater (weak carbonic acid) percolation && precipitation (eg. iron oxide, calcium sulphate, ferrous sulphate)(along with enzyme/cyanobacteria actvity) - eg. pyrites/copper sulphide minerals piled in open air and left exposed over months to rain/air provokes oxidation and dissolution of copper. * ferric sulphate 1,2,10g/l eg. over chalcopyrite * sulphuric acid - 5% chalcopyrite to sulphuric acid (w/v)(eg. 25g/500ml) * (cyanide/sulphuric acid): http://www.ausenco.com/uploads/papers/64041_Heap_Leach_Pad_Design_and_Construction_Practices_in_the_21st_Century.pdf * http://www.euromines.org/sites/default/files/content/files/mining-techniques/batforheapleaching-feb2013-c.zanbak-euromines.pdf * heap history/construction/lab testing (Cynanide) http://www.kcareno.com/pdfs/mpd_heap_leach_desn_and_practice_07apr02.pdf * http://technology.infomine.com/reviews/heapleachpads/welcome.asp?view=full * Georgio di Agricola's (1557) 40 day heap leaching (alum) small scale heap leaching * industry standard consultants - open access papers on various small scale heap leaching techniques http://www.kcareno.com/index.php/about-us-mainmenu-92/professional-papers-mainmenu-96 eg. http://www.kcareno.com/pdfs/Leaching_of_Small_Gold_Silver_Deposits.pdf * training manual http://www.globalmercuryproject.org/documents/non_country%20specific/training%20manual%20for%20miners%20Marcello%2015.pdf patio process * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patio_process general pit compost howto's * http://www.omick.net/ incl. eg. http://www.omick.net/graywater/graywater.htm general mining howtos * {{:manual_for_small_scale_miners.pdf|}} ===== general ===== - bio-sump - some kind of processing that outputs can be taken... not (necessarily) as cycling/oscillating process - filters can be diy 'rock' mixes - stack micromorphologies - thin sections of stack/heaps for eg. petrographic microscopy (Leuphana Geology Dept.) - finer resolution of human interventions - framing indeterminancy - Lüneburger Heide (Heath): juniper, agriculture, hilltops (100m+), lightning - growing plants in free silicon - http://ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/mysterious-gobekli-tepe-inturkey-00186 stones set out then buried ===== Testing/analysis ===== refining/precipitation: - bicycle wheel centrifuge - diy retorts eg. pyrex bowl - bucket test leaches: * 1 pt. sodium hyperchlorite (bleach) and 2 pts. Hcl (33%) > submerge (gold) stock/ore > gold(III) chloride (opt. > precipitate with sodium metabisulphate in water (= sodium bisulphate), leave until brown powder settles, etc) Read more: http://www.ehow.com/how_12101047_use-bleach-gold-ore-remove-gold.html#ixzz2Xnj2Qj8Y Read more: http://www.ehow.com/how_10075085_leach-gold-ore-chlorination.html#ixzz2XnhGgehR ===== stack frame heap: ===== {{:shf.gif|}} * stack is push/pull when we call a function * frame (frame stack or stack frame) can be storage for meta-information (eg. stack pointer) or is frame in stack * heap is for temporary strings, lists eg. http://net.pku.edu.cn/~course/cs101/2008/resource/heapAndStack.html see: matte (1st stage pre-metal refining), metal (refined), slag (waste/heap leach) - mix of push (crush material int smaller bits) && pull (extract) techniques ===== mine and garden ===== saltpeter beds, putrefication, urine: http://salt.org.il/frame_saltpet.html (also mentions tunnels) see also: http://umeshmadan.wordpress.com/tag/saltpeter-history/ (ref also black death) sodium chloride brine stacks/seeps ====== University of Leuphana Depts. ====== All http://www.leuphana.de/en/faculties-institutes.html Institute of Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry http://www.leuphana.de/en/institute/iec.html Institute of Ecology http://www.leuphana.de/en/institute/ie.html FuturES: Research Centre for Futures of Ecosystem Services http://www.leuphana.de/en/zentren/futures.html ====== References ====== Dictionary of Mining http://www.maden.hacettepe.edu.tr/dmmrt/index.html Agricola eg. De Re Metallica IX: 404-407 Sanskrit/Tibetan texts Golbekli stones set out then buried http://ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/mysterious-gobekli-tepe-inturkey-00186 //Stalker// Death of Tarkovsky etc attributed to toxicity of Zone location