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Mock-up image of opening a loot box in a video game. In video game terminology, a loot box (also called a loot crate or prize crate) is a consumable virtual item which can be redeemed to receive a randomised selection of further virtual items, or loot, ranging from simple customisation options for a player's avatar or character to game-changing equipment such as weapons and armour.
Mineshaft may refer to: A long vertical tunnel giving access to a mine's workings, see shaft mining; Mineshaft (gay club), a BDSM-oriented gay sex club in New York ...
The Quincy Mine No. 2 Shaft Hoist House is a rectangular structure, faced with red brick veneer, [9] measuring 72 by 76 feet (22 by 23 m) in plan [2] and rising to a height of almost five stories. [12] The building is particularly decorative for a hoist house, containing an inordinate number of windows [9] and, originally, a green glazed tile ...
Abandoned mine shafts in Marl, Germany A plan-view schematic of a mine shaft showing cage and skip compartments. Services may be housed in either of the four open compartments. Shaft mining or shaft sinking is the action of excavating a mine shaft from the top down, where there is initially no access to the bottom. [1]
Person on the 1837 man engine at the Samson Pit in Lower Saxony, Germany Bottom of the man engine at the Dolcoath Mine, Cornwall. The earliest known examples of this device were from the first half of the nineteenth century in the silver mining area of the Harz mountains, Germany, where they were driven by cranks connected to water wheels, although bucket hoists ("Hakenkunst") using the same ...
Headframe of the #1 Shaft at Oyuu Tolgoi. A steel headframe is less expensive than a concrete headframe; the tallest steel headframe measures 87 m. [4] Steel headframes are more adaptable to modifications (making any construction errors easier to remedy), and are considerably lighter, requiring less substantial foundations.
Cart from 16th century, found in Transylvania A dumper minecart used in the Basque Country, currently at the Minery Museum.. A minecart, mine cart, or mine car (or more rarely mine trolley or mine hutch) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway, used for transporting ore and materials procured in the process of traditional mining.
The Mineshaft attracted a wide range of patrons, some famous. Among those who frequented the club were author Jack Fritscher (who was present at its opening night and attended hundreds of times), [2] Fritscher's lover Robert Mapplethorpe (who took many pictures of the Mineshaft, was at one point its official photographer, and once said, "After dinner I go to the Mineshaft."), [3] [4] [5] gay ...