Contest #371 answer: Nanisivik mine and town

From 1976 to 2002, Nanisivik, located on northern Baffin Island, Nunavut, was the site of a zinc, lead and silver mine.

Nanisivik_Ore
As part of its history, it was part of a trade by Mineral Resources International of Calgary involving the rights to a sulfur deposit in Mexico.

The mine was shut down in 2002 and the town now no longer exists. This is what it looks like now:

Nanisivik

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanisivik

Those who found the mother lode before abandonment:

  • mehmet durmus
  • Phil Ower
  • Charley Seavey
  • krenek
  • steve willis
  • Eloy Cano
  • rob de wolff
  • Lighthouse
  • hhgygy
  • Garfield
  • Walter_V_R

With the hint:

Contest #370 answer: Wentworth Woodhouse, South Yorkshire, UK

Wentworth Woodhouse is the largest privately-owned house in Europe.
The facade is 180 meters long (606 feet for you at the other side the pond) and it has 365 rooms.

Wentworth_Woodhouse

It was built in the early 18th century and privately owned ever since.
The current owner is 90 years old and decided to sell the hous.
Asking price is £ 7,000,000,- which doesn’t seems much. But you will get a renovation report with your purchase, advising you to do some restoration work for about £ 40,000,000,-

Wentworth_Woodhouse_0

O well,

Those who made an offer:

  • Walter_V_R
  • Garfield
  • Eloy Cano
  • hhgygy
  • rob de wolff
  • mehmet durmus
  • krenek
  • R Hays
  • steve willis
  • Phil Ower
  • Lighthouse

– Hint –

  • Luís Filipe Miguel
  • Chris Nason
  • Bill Close
  • Charley Seavey
  • Steve Hoge

This concludes another series.
Winners are Garfield and Lighthouse. Congrats, boys!

And it was also my last contest that I drew up for you.
My five years are over and it makes me a bit sad to leave you all.

I’m gonna miss you all.

But you will be in good hands. Andrew Giles (ACG) and Paul Franson will take over from me and I am sure that they will come up with some amazing contests, as they are renowned players in this contest.
I wish them all succes and from me it is: So long and thanks for all the fish

🙂

Karel

Contest #370 problem

When I took the screenshot for contest #370 early last week, the image shown on the contest popped up. The image date in Google Earth is 12/22/2013. However when you go to the same location now, somehow the image has been replaced by an older version, with image date 10/25/2011. The newer image of the contest still shows up when you click on the ‘historic imagery icon’.

(Thanks to Steve Willis and Phil Ower for alerting me)

Because of this I decided to skip this weeks contest and come up with a new contest #370 next Friday, feel free to submit your answer, however it won’t be added to your score

Here is the current imagery:
370 problem.