The 82-foot ( 25-meter ) maxi-yacht Tasmania led some 370 boats through the North and South Heads framing Sydney Harbor, a field twice the size of the previous record Sydney-Hobart fleet.
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Eleanor H . Swent, a mining historian in the library at the University of California at Berkeley, said she was unaware of anybody else in California still using wooden head frames.
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After an hour, the men sat on skins on the dirt floor, their heads framed by drifts of wood smoke, and gulped boiled ribs and tongue, raw brains and hot tea.
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When the cage was loaded he would shout or signal ( via the bell fixed to the head frame ) to the man at the top the shaft, the banks man.
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In canyons and on mesas still dotted with the rusted head frames of uranium mines that have been shut down for more than two decades, three mines have been reopened this year.
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"I'm one of these guys who can't keep well enough alone, " he said sitting at his kitchen table, his head framed by dozens of antique corkscrews in a display case on the wall.
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The vertical shaft has a rock collar and is claimed to have a vertical depth of 568 ft . Within the fence there are the remains of two of the mine's head frame leg footings.
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But in this alpine village, the family legacy remains as alive as the aging timber head frames on Guggenheim silver mines that figure in a tourist guide, " The Routes of the Silver Kings ."
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Kendall, the mining engineer, said that even built of wood, head frames _ the structure that holds a pulley over a mine shaft _ could be strong enough to bring up ore from mines up to 300 feet deep.
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Twomey is the subject throughout, her head framed tightly by the camera, smiling, singing sweetly and combing her hair ( while " Get Ahead " is chanted in a layered audio track composed and sung by Twomey ) ."
