#whinstone

Fingerpost below Aireyholme Farm. The National park have recently been at worked erectly a new kissing gate, steps and fingerpost below Aireyholme Farm. One ‘finger’ confuses me, it points to the ‘Elephant Hole’. Where exactly is the ‘Elephant Hole’? Some opinion seems to be that it is the large bowl at the top of Cliff Rigg. But if this is the case why have a separate finger? Just one would…

I've never really figured out where Gribdale begins and where it ends. There is no dale as such.

I’ve never really figured out where Gribdale begins and where it ends. There is no dale as such.  The col between Capt. Cook’s Monument and Great Ayton Moor is known as Gribdale Gate. Beyond that, we’re into Lonsdale, so Gribdale must lie this side. But there is no valley. A stream does spring out from below Hunter’s Scar (300m south of the col) flowing below Gribdale Terrace; that’s the row of…

Whinstone is a hard, dense volcanic rock formed about 56 million years ago by the injection of hot, molten magma from a volcano near the Isle of Mull in Scotland, piercing the sedimentary Jurassic rocks of Cleveland.

This must be one of the oldest whinstone quarries in the Ayton area. It is shown on the 1856 6″ O.S. map which predates the huge Cliff Ridge quarry but there are workings shown on Langbaugh Ridge (to the west of the Guisborough road) and at Dingledow Quarry (to the east of it). Whinstone is a hard, dense volcanic rock formed about 56 million years ago by the injection of hot, molten magma from a…

The Donkey Pond and the Lounsdale Whinstone Quarry

I’ve been minded to feature this old whinstone quarry many times before but heavy summer bracken growth has always put paid to that. It’s one of many quarries that sprang up wherever the whinstone outcropped between Eaglescliffe and Sneaton High Moor. Between Cliff Rigg and Kildale there were several smaller and I guess short lived quarries. This one does not appear on the 1856 six inch Ordnance…

A view north-west along Langbaurgh Ridge from Cliff Ridge.

A view north-west from Cliff Ridge along Langbaurgh Ridge and the line of the intrusion of igneous rock known as the Cleveland Dyke. The basaltic rock was intruded as molten magma flowed from a volcanic source near the Island of Mull in Scotland 58 million years ago. It is calculated the flow took up to five days to reach Cleveland.

The rock, commonly called whinstone, is extremely hard and…

[ls_content_block id=”23798″]路易斯安那州高速數據中心開發商Whinstone US Inc.和德國比特幣採礦公司Northern Bitcoin AG合併，在美國德克薩斯州開設了一個100英畝的比特幣採礦場。

Whinstone和北部比特幣週一聯合宣布，該農場將成為世界上最大的比特幣採礦設施，容量為1吉瓦 Gigawatt (1吉瓦 Gigawatt 等於1000兆瓦 Megawatts)。

根據公告，Whsstone目前在荷蘭，瑞典和美國運營自己的採礦設施，而北部比特幣在挪威運營其採礦設施。

Northern Bitcoin AG首席執行官Mathis Schultz說：「通過這次合併，我們的比特幣採礦業比原計劃更快地躍居世界之首。加在一起，我們在這個快速發展的行業中擁有領先的領導地位，並有條件從中的未來發展中受益匪淺。區塊鏈技術。」

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