2009/1/17 Doug Franklin <[email protected]>: > David Savage wrote: > >> Sometimes it's handy having a camera with a high FPS count: >> <http://flickr.com/photos/disavage/3173175215/> >> It's not really a PESO, more of a fast moving GESO. > > It's /much/ better to be standing "nearby" (in the safety zone) and watch > one of those shoots. :-) There are a couple of granite quarries nearby and > they keep their shoot times secret to reduce the number of "effluent" people > like me standing around and increasing their insurance rates. :-)
That would be cool. This mine is the largest open pit mine in Australia at over 3km long & 1.5km wide +350m deep at one end and about 500m at the other.. The area used to be made up of many underground mines, but the 80's the costs were getting too high so plans were put in place to consolidate all the leases (Aussies will remember Alan Bond), but he ran into his troubles & never manged to pull it off. But the idea was sound & eventually happened. It's a tourist attraction too. They have an observation platform with a ticker board announcing when the next firing will be, and a history of the Kalgoorlie-Boulder region. We just lucked out that there was going to be a show 15min after we arrived. If it hadn't been for a blocked fuel filter & the need to stay the night, we never would have been in Kalgoorlie that day. We were also lucky that the husband & wife beside us were on the team that set the explosives. He'd come down on his day off to try out his new video camera :-) And he was nice enough to explain to us the process. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
