Mountains, mines, terricons - traces of ancient mining (3.díl)

08. 05. 2017
6th international conference of exopolitics, history and spirituality

Extraction limestone
I am convinced that the current civilization is only a shadow of the previous one, and in comparison with it we are only children. However, the level of industry of our ancient ancestors - and we do not have to count this time distance for thousands of years - cannot be proved yet, because everything has been utilized, remelted, recycled over time. An illustrative abbreviated analogy is the example where, after the collapse of the USSR, drunks dug cables and water pipes out of the ground so that they could then sell them to collection points. Also a kind of "recycling". And of course it was not only in the USSR. After all, the level of civilization sometimes changes by leaps and bounds, we can see in this small example concerning our topic today - the use and processing of limestone.

Until the 18th century, stone buildings were built mainly from it. Advanced machine tools were used for its cutting, and creating perfect regular blocks was the least that the stonemasons of the time could do. You do not even insert a blade into the joint of the masonry from these limestone blocks. Here is a photo of the foundation of an old house in the Crimea, the first floor of which was covered with soil, about 3-4 meters, as well as in many other cities in the former USSR. In Sevastopol, Simferpol, Feodosia, Kerch - all houses that are drowned in the ground for 3-4 meters, have masonry of the following quality:

However, 200 years passed and in the time of the USSR it was considered quite sufficient:

As usual, no one is normally standing as a first photograph. This is how progress is sometimes made. But that's just for clarity.

Let's get back to our topic. How can we prove that our ancient ancestors were not just wild mammoth hunters?
Easily. If the past civilization was much more developed than ours, then it is clear that for the functioning of its industrial, industrial, and metallurgical industries, it needed raw materials from the entire periodic table of elements. And all the isotopes of the elements. Almost all elements of the periodic table are found in the soil and in the upper rock layers. This means that it is enough to find and show extensive traces of rock extraction from mountain slopes, from the earth's surface and underground. But not only that; also traces of processed tailings after its enrichment in mining and refining plants of the past. And we can already show that.
Let's now look at the volumes and how long limestone has been mined on the planet as a basic building material, following the example of Crimea, because I am from here, and the local landscape and underground have guided me on this journey.
This is Eski Kermen. Illiterate guides will tell you that this is one of the cave cities of Crimea where people lived:

And on my question about these tracks I was told that the wheels of the local aristocracy were made.

Here is one such "cave city" of Crimea, Kufut Kale:

And here is a comparison of the current Crimean quarry for limestone mining; with carved rooms. Supposedly for workers. At least they seem to have a good time with their tools. Let's imagine now move this quarry a few hundred or thousands of years into the future, add the effect of water and wind erosion and what will we get as a result?
Right, another cave town of Crimea. The docks above, as you have clearly understood, left the heavy mining carts in which the stone rolled out.

In the post-nuclear era, this could be a pretty good place for those who want to survive, don't you think? Sturdy, safe, hard to reach. The former quarries appear to have been used as defensive towns.

We move on. There are thousands of kilometers of catacombs in the Crimea, in which limestone was cut. The volume is simply unheard of. It is officially claimed that the stone was mined from Greek times to the present day. He was said to have been cut with hand saws, chisels, chisels and spades. I went to see the famous Ajimushkay quarry, where ancient catacombs are famous. Unfortunately, I did not take any photos there. So at least I'll describe what I saw there. Traces of circular saws are clearly visible on the ceiling, with the thickness of the disc being 4 mm and its diameter about 2 meters - this is clearly visible on the walls: when the block broke off after sawing, it is easy to see what it was diameter. So I have serious doubts about those ancient "hand saws" and "chisels". If you are ever in these catacombs, pay attention.
In the following photograph, which was taken before the 1917 revolution, you can see that the entire huge segment was precisely cut from the limestone slope in Inkermen, at the bottom of which there is a railway and there are even houses built.

This is followed by an important image from a nearby Inkerman quarry, photographed in 1890. It shows a cut through a hill 100 meters wide and 80 meters high. In the walls of the cutout you can see huge niches in which whole houses stand. Under the vertical wall below, small pieces of non-standard-shaped limestone and limestone crushed, which was poured from the saw, are rolled. Some of these niches seem to be the beginning of the catacombs, which stretch for hundreds of kilometers into the depths of the peninsula. Extensive underground limestone mining took place here. During the Second World War, there were headquarters, hospitals, a clothing factory, and warehouses in these catacombs. Entire trucks drove in without any problems. During the retreat, the entrances were blown up. However, earlier catacombs are beneath any city on the planet. Snag and see. Under Odessa, for example, there are 2.500 km of them!

And now we reveal further manipulation. What they pretend to be rocks, canyons and gorges are often nothing but quarries. Both quarries from the ancient past and relatively young.
White Rock - Belogorsk, Crimea. These are all limestone quarries. The wall was created as a result of cutting off the slopes of the hills. At the foot of the wall, there is usually a characteristic embankment of limestone crushed stone and stones of amorphous shapes, which increases with weathering over time.

And do you see this passage, the passage from which the mass of limestone in the Bakhchisaray region was taken? So this, please, pretends to be a "valley." The slopes of limestone crumb under the originally very high walls have already been overgrown with oak forests.

Compare this photo of the "gorge" with a photo from Inkerman in the 19th century. The embankments of the vertical limestone crushed walls are not so high yet and there are no overgrown forests.

And a picture from 1855 from the same place, but with an aqueduct on the other side. The gigantic earlier mining work in the limestone quarry can also be seen in the background. Click to enlarge <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1932/8043/files/200721_ODSTOUPENI_BEZ_UDANI_DUVODU__EN.pdf?v=1595428404" data-gt-href-en="https://en.notsofunnyany.com/">here</a>.

The same place, Bachisaray region.

The picture shows the village. It is located at the bottom of a former quarry, which is called the valley, and is said to have been created by a small river. But that is nonsense. On the contrary, after the mining deepening, water from an interrupted aquifer was spilled at the bottom of the quarry or a stream that had previously flowed through another riverbed was turned here. This is the rule in any quarry. The water on its way cannot pierce the mountain ridge standing in its way. On the contrary, he will be a barrier for her, through which she cannot. Surely you have seen waterfalls flowing down from vertical limestone walls. Their riverbed has widened somewhat over the years, but that's all. This valley, which is hundreds of meters wide, is definitely not the work of that small river in the valley.

So what, did the scale of stone mining make you impression in the little Crimea? I will overtake a bit and tell you that this is only a tiny one. Looking at Earth's surface with this consciousness, I sometimes have the impression that there are few places on this planet where every cubic meter of the rock, probably at the depth of 100 meters, would not be mined, milled, crushed and deprived of time; heaps of fate. This is not a planet, this is a gigantic mine in which all the conceivable raw materials were mined in the most barbaric way.

Limestone for industrial purposes
We now turn to limestone mining for industrial use, without which it is not possible to remove slag when melting metal from ore. It is usually assumed that this stone is used primarily for construction purposes, but much more is needed in industry. I have pointed out earlier that many metals were mined. This means that even a huge amount of limestone was needed. Today it is used as a flux, for the production of soda, quicklime, it is also needed as a means of neutralizing the pH of sludge, thus reducing the level of environmental risk. Limestone is essential for metallurgy, food, paper, as well as in the glass, coking and dyeing industries. And the list could go on.

These are the chalk hedges of Slavjanska in Ukraine. These pyramidal heaps are sometimes called terricons:

It is obvious that the local population is quietly analyzing them - chalk is suitable for whitening or as an additive to the soil.

She elundes the heap with time, she stiffens with enormous pressure, then grows vegetation, and once, once the need arises again, it may open up again. For example, this kind of quarry is created:

Now look at this. They call it "chicane."

Russian wikipedia states:
Šichan is a lonely hill (volcano) in relief well visible, with regular slopes and a peak. In Zavolží and Západné Přiuralí, šichany represents the remains of ancient sea cliffs, consisting of limestone… Šichany is often found in river valleys and is 150 - 200 meters high. 

To get the right idea, here is a view from above. Does it really feel like a "cliff remnant" to you? Isn't it more of an old weathered and overgrown heap - terricon?

And when you get a little bit aggression (you can find Shihany Bashkiri in the search engine and open pictures), there are a lot of similar "reef remains"

Around these legally protected "natural monuments" - unique shakers, scandals are constantly being done. For example:

"Natural Monument or Raw Material for Soda Company?
The government of Bashkortostan wants to get rid of the natural monument - Mount Juraktau - of a protective status so that limestone can be started here.
They want to remove the status of a natural monument on one of the four ridges in the Cterlitan region so that they can use Mount Juraktau as a resource base for the joint-stock company "Soda". This will lead to the actual liquidation of a unique natural object.
The President of the Republic Rustjem Chamitov, scientists from the Ufim Science Center RAN, the population of the Republic, and even the Department for the Use of the Bashkortostan Subsoil are opposed this decision and for the protection of the unique natural object. "

After reading this article, it will probably be clear to you how trustworthy scientists from the RAN (Russian Academy of Sciences) are. If we take them as authority, we will probably never discover the difference between a shichan and a terricon - and the consequences that follow from it.

Now enter the мельые горы (chalk mountains) and look at the pictures. You will see the following:

These are all dumps and heaps of limestone. Partially disintegrating, with revealed refined internal volume and places re-dismantled both for resumed mining and for the economic and domestic needs of the resourceful people living in the area.

And this is the chalk quarry of the White Collared in the Voronezh region.
Is it really that hard to imagine that the Table Mountains in Arizona are not a game of nature, but are the remains of an ancient giant surface mine?

This strange stone near the quarry is similar to the paste thickening of the tailings from enrichment or just concrete. Of course, if it is current ...

In many places, where the conditions were, the limestone was mined directly on the coast. This is very advantageous because it allows the conveyor belt to be routed for the raw material directly into the cargo ship.
Limestone White Mountain Quarries:

White cliffs, Dover, England
The white rocks of the Dover River border the English coastline of the Pas-de-Calais Canal. They are part of the North Downs. The slopes reach a height of up to 107 meters.
In this photo is the official old limestone quarry Hedbury Quarry:

And this is called the Cretaceous reef. However, it is not difficult to imagine that it is a remnant of a similar, but apparently, much older and incomparably larger limestone quarry.
Beachy Head Cliffs.

Compare, for example, with equally straight vertical walls in a flooded quarry at Ikerman at Sevastopol:

And again the Cretaceous Cliffs along La Manche:

Here are even straight lines from mining / 1:

 

There is no information about the chrysalis, but the analogy is quite obvious. Just remember the above-mentioned Crimean White Rock or cliffs at Ikerman. But so are the many and many other places in the world that we have omitted for the sake of economy.
And let them tell us then that it was just the sea, so the shore was biting ...

 

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