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Autonomous Robots Could Mine the Deep Seafloor. Pliant Energy says its C-Ray robot could be a less invasive tool for ocean mining.
Here is the link to a long article on the subject.
Autonomous Robots Could Mine the Deep Seafloor - IEEE Spectrum
Different design than most subsurface robots.
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Measuring some 45 centimeters long and weighing between 24 and 32 kilos, they are triangular in shape, resembling a Toblerone bar. There are only three of them, and one is broken in half, but the study of these three lead ingots, never studied before and from the Los Escoriales de Doña Rama (Belmez, Córdoba) deposit, yield enough information to state that ancient Cordoba, the capital of the Roman Empire’s region of Baetica, and whose territory occupied what is today the north of the province, encompassing the Guadiato Valley, Los Pedroches, and some districts of Jaen, Ciudad Real and Badajoz, was the western ancient world’s main center for the smelting of lead, a metal used to produce a multitude of everyday tools, such as spoons, tiles, pipes, etc. ....
The ingots, dating from the first century A.D., were unearthed in the twentieth century during work on the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline, and were kept in the Belmez Museum and in private homes. Two of them bear an identifying mark, making it possible to reveal part of their history and to confirm the great importance of mining importance in the central Sierra Morena area during the Roman period. This mark is actually two letters, "S S", referring to the Societas Sisaponensis, a mining company originally from La Bienvenida (Almodóvar del Campo, Ciudad Real), a land famous for the production of cinnabar, but that must have been headquartered in Cordoba...
Here is the link for more about that.
Roman lead was Cordovan | EurekAlert!
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One of the mystery objects I posted yesterday was identified by Mark G. as a toe ring. Initially I thought it was too small for that. Have you seen the fat little piggies going to market? But I think Mark is right. I have no better guesses, and it matches examples for sale I've seen now. I'm going with that.
Most of the toe rings I've found have been big and fixed in size. It could be for a skinny toe or expanded to a larger size than it is currently.
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On the subject of mystery finds, here is one that it seemed like I almost recognized, but didn't.
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| Mystery Object. |
Reminds me of a scorpion. The one end looks something like a wrench, but I can't imagine how an iron object like that would have been bent unless it was made that way. It was found in the hills of West Virginia near an old wagon trail where horseshoes and crotal bells were found. Don't know if it has anything to do with that or not.
Just the morning I got to thinking it could be broken. Maybe the fat end was a hole that broke at the end where the pressure would have been.
What do you think? I don't remember getting any reader feedback on this one.
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I haven't done much bottle hunting at all this year. In fact I haven't done much hunting of any kind yet this year, but I caught a nice low tide and went out a for a little bottle walk yesterday. I didn't find anything good, but I did get this Esquire Lanol White shore polish bottle to go with a variety of other Esquire bottles I've found.
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| ESQUIRE LANOL WHITE. |
I added this one to the post I already had on Esquire bottles in tgbottlebarn.blogspot.com.
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No big change in beach conditions. We did have a small and smooth surf and a decent low tide, which is why I went bottle hunting,
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net