Vikki is one of the two people (5 points Les)

The other is NOT Tony (0 points Mike)

Leaderboard
43 Points : Les W
25 Points : Steve K
20 Points : Stones
11 Points :Ian A
1 Point : Mike L


Still 5 points for grabs .... who is the male in the picture?

Rich timms

Correct - it is Richard Timms

Leaderboard
43 Points : Les W
25 Points : Steve K
25 Points : Stones
11 Points :Ian A
1 Point : Mike L


Nest Question ...

1) What, according to an Aberystwyth Professor, is causing the colouration of this speolotherm? (10 points)
2) Where, geographically, is the phenomenon? ((10 points)
3) Name the mine? (10 points)
4) What was mined here? (5 points)

Salt? The Great Orme? Copper?
Mike should know the answer as it's his hand

Sorry, not salt, copper, the Great Orme or Mike's hand

Sure as hell looks like my hand : huh:

Interesting.

The Trip was April 10th 2010

JohnO, Weston and myself are in the photos - you aren't in any of them (except the hand?)

Anyway .....

Not Salt
Not Copper
Not the Great Orme

Don't know what causing the formation.
It's a gold mine, clogau mine? Dolgellau gold belt mid wales

Gwynffynedd
Dolgellau
Manganes
Welsh Gold

The mauve colour is likely to be manganese so I reckon Mike has that

It's Clogau Gold Mine (10 points Stones)

I was looking for "Dolgellau Gold Belt" (10 Point Stones)

It's a Gold Mine (5 Points Stones)

... He said all that first

Mike can have 5 points since I do think it's his hand (even though I never asked)

It isn't manganese (I worded the question very carefully because I expected our resident expert may have a different opinion) ... it is apparently caused by small cuboids of cobalt specific to that area of the belt (no sense challenging me, you need to challenge the University of Aberystwyth)


Leaderboard
50 Points : Stones
43 Points : Les W
25 Points : Steve K
21 Points :Ian A
6 Point : Mike L

Next Question;

1) What was mined in this mine? (10 points)
2) What is the area known as? (1o points if very specific, 5 points for locale)
3) What year were the pictures taken? (no looking on the knowledge bank!) One guess each for 10 points

Ian wrote:
Not going to challenge you, the professor is bound to be right (assuming they have sampled and looked at it under a scanning electron microscope or put it in a mass spectrometer...) Minerals have many different forms and colours depending on a lot of factors, which is why I seldom say something is, and instead use the word probably...
It is rare that you can be absolutely definitive without getting down to the atomic level

Iron ?
Llyn peninsular
1999

So, it's along the Llŷn Peninsula and principally near Porth Ysgo
Down that way it is likely to be Manganese
It is pobably the Nant-Gadwen Manganese Mine
no idea what year though...

Les,

You need to imbue some chemicals to calm your brain down - you are spot on (Nant Manganese Mine on the Llyn)

So, points;

5 points - Steve K for getting the Llyn first
10 Points - Les W for getting the specific name
10 Points - Les W for identifying Manganese

I'm having 5 points for the year because there is no point leaving the question open for a "guess" (it was 2013) and I obviously knew the answer.


Leaderboard
63 Points : Les W
50 Points : Stones
30 Points : Steve K
26 Points :Ian A
6 Point : Mike L

What happened to the leader board? Stones had 50 points in the last one and now he isn't listed at all...

Fixed it, sadly I have been imbibing chemicals and my brain calmed too much

Next Question;


1) Where are these two lids? (they are close to each other) - what's the area called? (10 points)
2) What was being mined down there? (5 points)
3) Who is on the ladder? (5 points)
4) What year was the photo taken? One guess each - 10 points

Esclusham Mountain, Minera
Lead was the mineral mined