• Grime's Graves is the only Neolithic flint mine open to visitors in Britain. (english-heritage.org.uk)
  • New radiocarbon dating and chronological modelling have refined understanding of the character and circumstances of flint mining at Grime's Graves through time. (gla.ac.uk)
  • After a gap of around half a millennium, flint mining at Grime's Graves briefly resumed, probably from the middle of the 16th century cal bc to the middle of the 15th. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Flint has been mined since the Palaeolithic, but was most common during the Neolithic. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Neolithic Flint Mines of England. (wikipedia.org)
  • Radiocarbon dates show that the flint was mined mainly during the earliest phase of the Early Neolithic, between c. 4000 and 3600 BC, thus coinciding with the earliest evidence of the Funnel Beaker Culture in the region. (diva-portal.org)
  • Flint mines and signs of barrows have been discovered on Burrough's Hill, indicating settlement back to Neolithic time. (wikipedia.org)
  • The type of flint, the size of the flint nodules, production debris in the mining area and the concentration of point-butted axes to south-west Scania all suggest that the mining was related to the extraction of flint for the production of point-butted axes. (diva-portal.org)
  • In a time when flint and flint-like rocks were cutting edge technology, entire economies were based on mining and trading flint nodules. (wilderness-survival.net)
  • Mining nodules, sitting down and shaping them to cores for easier transport and of course the trading. (wilderness-survival.net)
  • The aid will provide credits to the Flint residents that will help them pay residential water bills from April 2014 till April 2016, or until the city secures a supply of clean drinking water. (water-technology.net)
  • Conversely, levels of the mip gene, which is specific to L. pneumophila , were largely below detection in Flint single-family residences, at least during the later stages of the water crisis when they were measured (2015-2016) ( 8 ). (cdc.gov)
  • I eventually made it to Saginaw Street, the city's main artery, which roughly divides Flint between east and west. (ucpress.edu)
  • This article proposes an overview of current knowledge on flint mines in France and Belgium. (rcin.org.pl)
  • The CliffsNote version is that in 2014, thanks to a state-imposed emergency manager, the city of Flint its water supply to Flint River water, which was more corrosive. (scienceblogs.com)
  • A panel of experts voted the Flint Tornado as the worst natural disaster in Michigan in the 20th century. (woodtv.com)
  • Extensive radiocarbon dating was undertaken on several mining sites, but this was still insufficient to characterize all the extraction activity. (rcin.org.pl)
  • The Michigan Senate has approved a fund of $30m to help residents of Flint pay their water bills after the city was gripped by a lead contamination crisis. (water-technology.net)
  • Besides the Flint-Beecher tornado, at least eight other tornadoes occurred in Michigan and northern Ohio late on the afternoon of June 8. (woodtv.com)
  • Heartless, profit-driven corporations like Walmart, Coca-Cola, Pepsi Co., and Nestle have pledged to donate millions of water bottles to the people of Flint, Michigan. (reason.com)
  • Members of the Michigan National Guard load bottled water at a fire station on Jan. 28 in Flint, Mich. (latimes.com)
  • In the fall of 1966, African American activists from the impoverished North End of Flint, Michigan, turned out en masse for a series of hearings on racial inequality sponsored by the state's Civil Rights Commission. (latimes.com)
  • Need an attorney in Flint, Michigan? (findlaw.com)
  • Use the contact form on the profiles to connect with a Flint, Michigan attorney for legal advice. (findlaw.com)
  • During the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, USA (2014-2015), 2 outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease occurred in Genesee County, Michigan. (cdc.gov)
  • Scientists say municipal water in Flint, Michigan, has gotten much better in recent months and is safe for handwashing, showering and bathing. (ien.com)
  • My state is screwed up, and the epicenter of the fallout from the dysfunctional mess that is the Michigan state government is the city of Flint. (scienceblogs.com)
  • In Europe and Asia they track the travel of technology during the stone age by the flint that was traded among the cultures with french flint in Great Britain, German flint in Italy and such. (wilderness-survival.net)
  • Earlier this month, emails were released indicating that the supervisor of the Flint's municipal water plant had major concerns and warned officials that the plant was not ready for a supply of water from the Flint river. (water-technology.net)
  • Flint's research was also reprinted in the School of Mines Quarterly. (wikipedia.org)
  • Between that time and April 2015, when Snyder declared Flint's emergency resolved and turned the municipality over to an advisory board, the governor's appointees implemented a series of reforms they claimed would return Flint to financial solvency. (latimes.com)
  • To meet immediate water needs, Flint's emergency managers elected to use the polluted Flint River. (latimes.com)
  • Flint mines can be as simple as a pit on the surface or an area of quarrying, or it may refer to a series of shafts and tunnels used to extract flint. (wikipedia.org)
  • We suggest that the very extraction of flint from pits and shafts in the chalk was socially and symbolically significant in itself. (diva-portal.org)
  • While the dates indicate a peak of exploitation in the 4th millennium BC, certain mines such as Spiennes were exploited for a very long period, about 2000 years. (rcin.org.pl)
  • However, considering the abundance of easily available flint elsewhere in the region, it seems clear that the mining was not motivated purely by economic reasons. (diva-portal.org)
  • Flint was selected by aboriginal people because of its abundance and ease of forming into implements. (divinemine.com)
  • the lead contamination came from the higher level of corrosiveness of the Flint River water, which was not properly treated and as a result corroded lead pipes, releasing lead into the water. (scienceblogs.com)
  • According to the Snyder administration, approximately 21,000 Flint residents have already paid their bills in spite of the contaminated water crisis, while 9,000 refused to pay. (water-technology.net)
  • Flint - which once claimed 200,000 residents - now contains fewer than 100,000, nearly half impoverished, more than half African American. (latimes.com)
  • Later, Zahran and colleagues reported that the odds of Flint residents being referred for Legionnaires' disease treatment while the Flint River was the source of tap water increased 6.3-fold and confirmed our report of associations with low chlorine residuals ( 9 ), but the odds analysis, which was based on the use of referral date rather than symptom onset date, excluded many healthcare-associated cases ( 10 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Like the case in Flint, Mich., residents of Newark, NJ, cannot trust their tap water sources for fear of lead poisoning, and the city has been asked to provide-first filters, now bottles of water. (eponline.com)
  • In the Stanton decision the Court addresses the legitimacy of the income tax as it applies to the corporate profits of a mining company , Baltic Mining Co. The company argues that the tax on its income, derived from mining operations, is unconstitutionally direct. (tax-freedom.com)
  • The cash-strapped city switched its source of tap water from Detroit's system to the Flint River in order to save money. (water-technology.net)
  • A team led by engineering professor Marc Edwards of Virginia Tech provided an update Tuesday on results of sampling from homes and buildings in the city, where the water became tainted with lead and other pollutants after officials switched the source from Detroit's system to the Flint River in 2014. (ien.com)
  • The trio toured the Latinx Technology and Community Center, a Flint cultural center that provides adult education and summer youth programs, where a $2.6 million investment from this year's state budget will help to convert a nearby abandoned building to a bilingual early childhood center. (mea.org)
  • Flint resumed using Detroit water last October. (ien.com)
  • I had arrived in Flint in early June of 2009 after listening to the Tigers game in my rental car during the ninety-minute drive up I-75 from the Detroit airport. (ucpress.edu)
  • In fact, Flint got its water from the Detroit system for decades before this without a problem. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Despite what liberals like Dana Milbank and Katrina vanden Heuvel think, privatization and austerity are not the causes of the Flint water crisis: government mismanagement, regulatory failure, and Keynesian fiscal stimulus are. (reason.com)
  • Although the plants that once choked Butler's lungs are long gone, structural inequality and environmental degradation are still twin problems today in Flint, a city now constantly in the news thanks to a toxic water crisis. (latimes.com)
  • The Art Deco splendor of the sixteen-story Mott Foundation Building, scrupulously maintained with the financial legacy of a fabulously wealthy industrialist once referred to as Mr. Flint, would draw attention in any city. (ucpress.edu)
  • Structured deposition, symbolism, and the English flint mines. (wikipedia.org)
  • Rufus Flint (born c. 1865) was a professor of English and mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, conducting early Central American biodiversity studies while enrolled at Cornell University. (wikipedia.org)
  • They spark well in the locks we have tested, but can be more brittle than the English flints. (trackofthewolf.com)
  • The French and English shipped gun flints to the colonies by the barrel full. (wilderness-survival.net)
  • The best Muzzle loading flints for a flintlock rifle are made from English black flint and they are still being imported. (wilderness-survival.net)
  • We now have a limited supply of gun flints made from the hardest French amber flint. (trackofthewolf.com)
  • Thanks to Stuart Flint for sending scans of the book from which these transcriptions were made. (wirksworth.org.uk)
  • The first dagger-shaped tools our ancestors made were of flint, bone and ivory. (atlantacutlery.com)
  • However, the first "real" daggers were made in the Bronze and Copper Ages when metals started being mined. (atlantacutlery.com)
  • Development of the NIOSH "Determination of Sound Exposures (DOSES)" mining noise exposure management software. (cdc.gov)
  • It was not until one of them was excavated in 1870 that they were identified as flint mines dug over 5,000 years ago. (english-heritage.org.uk)
  • Please note that children under 7 years of age are not allowed into the mine shaft and visitors should be advised to wear sensible flat shoes. (english-heritage.org.uk)
  • Twenty-five years of experience in excavating flint mines allow us to give a methodological overview about sites char-acterized by the sheer depth of some structures, the often vast extensions of the deposits and the specialised activities that were carried out there. (hal.science)
  • Flint, used for thousands of years, is a powerful stabilizer and cleanser. (divinemine.com)
  • The open-cut underground mine proposed by South Korean company KEPCO would be built near Bylong, 55 kilometres northeast of Mudgee and is intended to operate for 25 years, extracting 6.5 million tonnes of coal each year. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The facts are that the deposit was mined for over 124 years. (emol.org)
  • Flints are composed of a mixture of quartz, agate, shell and diatom fragments, traces of hematite, iron oxides and gypsum. (divinemine.com)
  • Jewelry grade gold and silver in quartz attractively visible to the naked eye is every day becoming more valuable due to the modem mass mining techniques. (emol.org)
  • The wearing of a rich natural gold in quartz was a sort of a "Badge of Courage," showing the wealth of the mine owner. (emol.org)
  • Scientists say byproducts from disinfecting agents such as chlorine are at normal levels in Flint. (ien.com)
  • Flint mining is the process of extracting flint from underground. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ownership included Hartman and the Rothschilds and was the largest "underground" gold producing mine in tile United States until 2003. (emol.org)
  • Noise control in underground metal mining. (cdc.gov)
  • The choices of production vary: certain mines with a local impact have productions restricted to rather domestic use, whereas others such as Spiennes and Jablines are massively exploited and diffuse at a regional scale, or even at a greater distance, extracting at depth and producing quality products with a high level level of know-how (Spiennes, Jablines). (rcin.org.pl)
  • The company employed 550 workers involved in the production of ceramic electrical insulations from feldspar, kaolin, alumina (1344281), locally mined flint, and ball clays. (cdc.gov)
  • Order a dozen and try them in your flint lock. (trackofthewolf.com)
  • Lock the Gate spokesperson Carmel Flint said the recommendation to support the Bylong mine is wrong. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The impetus behind the Cornell research conducted by Flint was to assess the viability of exploiting Central American timber stands when the Northwest American forest resources were exhausted. (wikipedia.org)
  • Not only will this mine put the climate at risk, but new research shows it will take South Korean mining giant KEPCO one step closer to destroying a magnificent valley with state significant heritage values. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Hearing loss in the mining industry: the evolution of NIOSH and Bureau of Mines hearing loss research. (cdc.gov)
  • Extracting the science: a century of mining research. (cdc.gov)
  • The area around the villages of Kvarnby and S.dra Sallerup in south-west Scania is the only known flint-mining site in Sweden. (diva-portal.org)
  • If folks are going to buy flint, I'm going to order a load of gravel and pick up a bunch of flat rate boxes at the PO tomorrow! (wilderness-survival.net)
  • The tions and control measures are deter- students were suffering from gastroin- Independent evaluation mined, evaluated and revised at the testinal symptoms, mostly vomiting, In order to estimate the incidence of national level predominantly by the nausea, diarrhoea and abdominal pain. (who.int)
  • Explore displays of over 1,000 Old West artifacts and specimens from the surrounding area with Flint Carter. (emol.org)
  • Visitors can descend 9 metres (30 ft) by ladder into one excavated shaft to see the jet-black flint. (english-heritage.org.uk)
  • Rufus Flint donated land to build the sanctuary for the "Christo Negro", or Black Christ, of La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is not easy or inexpensive to do, as any Flint resident could tell you. (michiganradio.org)
  • The first was Virginia Tech University researcher Marc Edwards, who in response to a plea from a Flint resident ran his own test on multiple samples of water and was the major voice in the wilderness saying that, hey, this is bad, way worse than what the state government is claiming. (scienceblogs.com)
  • That afternoon, the two presidents joined Gov. Whitmer for two stops in Flint on her back-to-school tour of the state. (mea.org)
  • And the day following the Flint-Beecher tornado, the same storm system spawned an F4 Tornado in Worcester, Massachusetts , that killed 90 people and injured over 1288. (woodtv.com)
  • Many people in Flint may want government to work better, but with sufficient donations, they may find that the private sector has supplanted many of government's functions altogether. (reason.com)
  • If the private sector can deliver affordable, clean water to Flint, why shouldn't people prefer it? (reason.com)
  • Going to a historical event with a French impression, why not have a French flint in your French musket or trade gun. (trackofthewolf.com)
  • French amber gun flint , 1/2 x 5/8" for tiny Becky's, CVA, H&A, Pedersoli pistols. (trackofthewolf.com)
  • The French gun flints are often colorful and tend to go to yellow and caramel colors. (wilderness-survival.net)
  • this new water source led to elevated lead in tap water over a prolonged period, now called the Flint water crisis ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • An old lead mine was its undoing. (wirksworth.org.uk)
  • Also as a result, the percentage of Flint children with elevated blood lead levels increased alarmingly. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Isolates belonging to 1 clade (3 clinical isolates, 3 water isolates from a Flint hospital, 1 water isolate from a Flint residence, and the reference Paris strain) had a high degree of similarity (2-1,062 single-nucleotide polymorphisms), all L. pneumophila sequence type 1, serogroup 1. (cdc.gov)
  • This mine will only proceed with the backing of the NSW Government, who at every step has allowed it to progress through the planning process despite the obvious and unacceptable risks it poses to farmland, water and heritage. (greenleft.org.au)
  • I'll tell you what, next time I go to the ranch (maybe this week), I'll pick up a bunch of flint rocks and send them to you in a flat rate box, if you'll pay the postage. (wilderness-survival.net)
  • In museums worldwide and The Mining Hall of Fame, this particular deposit was at one time owned by Buffalo Bill Cody and named in his honor. (emol.org)
  • Spotting a new business in downtown Flint is as rare as seeing someone driving a new Buick in San Francisco. (ucpress.edu)