Tuesday, September 21, 2010

What Is Causing My Stomach To Fill With Gas

--- My Collection - Fluorite

Good. Then I'll put the photos of some of the Fluorite from my collection, which as you can see are my passion. Hope you like. I'll start putting those in my country first and then a couple of them foreign.

PS can see the pictures larger click on them.



Fluorite - Mina La Viesca, mining complex of La Collada, Pola de Siero, Asturias. (8cm x 6cm).


Fluorite - Mina La Viesca, mining complex of La Collada, Pola de Siero, Asturias. 2000. (9.5 cm x 4 cm and the largest crystal, 0.9 cm edge).


Fluorite in quartz matrix - Mina La Viesca, mining complex of La Collada, Pola de Siero, Asturias. (Crystals: the big 9mm edge and the other 6mm).


Floating Glass Fluorite - Mina La Viesca, mining complex of La Collada, Pola de Siero, Asturias. (8cm x 5cm).


Fluorite - Mina La Viesca, mining complex of La Collada, Pola de Siero, Asturias. (14cm x 10cm and the largest crystal: 1.4 cm edge).


dolomite and Pyrite Fluorite - Mina Moscona, Solís, Corvera, Asturias. (9cm x 8.5 cm) and larger glass 1.1 cm edge).


coated Pyrite Fluorite - Mina Moscona, Solís, Corvera, Asturias. (13cm x 7cm. And more crystal: 1cm edge).


Fluorite - Cuetu II, L'Cuetu blade, Berbes mining complex, Ribadesella, Asturias. (11cm x 7.5 cm and the largest crystal, 0.9 cm edge).


Fluorite with Barite - Quarry guinea pigs, Ana Mine, Mine Complex Berbes Ribadesella, Asturias. 1989. (4.5 cm x 4cm. And more glass, 1.01 cm edge).


Fluorite - United States (6cm x 6cm).


Fluorite - M. Hansonburg, Bingham, New Mexico, USA. (7cm x 3cm and more crystal: 1.5 cm edge).

Photos: Darío Menéndez.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Cold With Sore Throat And Mucus

--- Miners intensify the pressure. Protests ---

Miners only intensify the pressure with a hunger strike and camped in protest. The new focus on industrial action León l Workers returned to isolate Asturias Plateau.

miners yesterday gave a new twist to their protests after a weekend marked by roadblocks in the region, in which the workers came to block the main roads of Asturias. In the case of yesterday, four mining companies Coto Minero Biscay, which has a presence in Asturias and the Sons of Baldomero Garcia began early in the morning while camping in front of the offices that the employer Victorino Alonso has in Ponferrada (León .) The four miners also began a hunger strike indefinitely. Along with the protesters, four miners another tent erected next to the Plaza de Julio Lazúrtegu Ponferrada, where the company has offices Alto Bierzo, belonging to businessman Manuel Viloria Lamelas who, along with Alonso, due July payrolls workers in August.

addition to this symbolic protest, there were also other road cuts, as in previous days, returned to seek for connection to the plateau, both the highway and in port Huerna Pajares. While cutting the highway, which occurred in the afternoon, lasted only fifteen minutes, in the case of road closure Pajares dragged on for nearly three hours. In addition to the connections of Asturias, the protesters also shut down the A-6 in Bembridge, San Román de Bembibre and Carracedelo, the N-VI highway Carracedelo and between Burgos and Leon (A-231) to the height of the locality Palencia Carrión de los Condes.

Text and photo: The New Spain

Monday, September 13, 2010

Can You Wash Your North Face Apex

Asturias mining collapse. ---

More than 700 workers cut in the morning yesterday and the access to Pajares Huerna the Cantabrian motorway and Siero Nalón walls, and several secondary roads .

mining protests over unpaid wages collapsed yesterday region, with traffic courts in several major roads in the network of roads that led to severe delays. In addition to requiring the collection of payroll arrears owed to private mining companies, workers defend the survival of the sector beyond 2014. According to sources of SOMA-FIA-UGT, a total of 700 miners, mine not only private but also Hunosa participated in different pickets fanned out across the Asturian geography and even threatening to cut off the Tour Spain at the height of Arriondas.

motorway links Oviedo-La Spina, the connection to the plateau through the highway Huerna Pajares and port, and the Cantabrian motorway were major outbreaks in those who took the protesters, who also moved into other avenues of internal communication in councils as Mieres, Siero or Salas.

The first cuts occurred at 9.45 am at the height of Campomanes (Lena), where the miners took to cut off the plateau through both Huerna motorway (AP-66) and the port of Pajares ( N-630), which converge in this locality. Blocking these two routes was extended throughout the morning and until 12.30 noon, the protesters allowed the release of the outgoing traffic in the region. This is not was the only court in the region of flow, since miners also took to close the AS-242 at the height of Mieres. These closures, as happened in the rest of the region, developed normally and no altercations with law enforcement, as sources said the EMS.

Another major cut came at the height of the town of Lieres Sierens, particularly in the highway-Villaviciosa Oviedo (A-64) and N-634, where communication was closed for an hour and forty minutes. The pickets, which have involved hundreds of miners, began at 10.35 pm and continued until 12.15 pm, when members of the Guardia Civil themselves at the place to disperse the demonstrators.

materialized miners cuts both ways of communication during a meeting of the SOMA-FIA-UGT held early in the morning at the headquarters of the Regional Union Piloña Siero-UGT, located Pola de Siero. Following the same, the leaders went straight to the barricades under the banner of "here and there are no mines, but mining", as noted by the leaders of SOMA. To cut the tracks, the miners used tires and logs, they soaked in gasoline to set fire to them later. These cuts, which occurred in both lanes of the highway Villaviciosa, took place at the point where it occurs diversion from the fast track to Infiesto and Arriondas Lieres. Similarly, miners completed two more cuts in the N-634, the first near the turnoff to the highway, and the second to two kilometers Lieres at the level of diversion to Vigil.

retention cuts were three miles in N-634, and more than six on the freeway, with special emphasis on the rails Villaviciosa sense. The cleaning work further delayed the recovery road traffic until about 13 hours. Previously, the Civil Guard had diverted traffic Vega Sariego to limit the deductions.

Text and photos: The New Spain