Author: Andrew

This weeks location is Kennecott, Alaska.

In the summer of 1900, two prospectors, “Tarantula” Jack Smith and Clarence L. Warner, spotted “a green patch far above them in an improbable location for a grass-green meadow.” The green turned out to be malachite, located with chalcocite (aka “copper glance”), and the location of the Bonanza claim. This ended up being one of the mines in the Kennecott/Kennicott complex – the richest known concentration of copper in the world at that time.

The copper was shipped about 200 rail miles away to Cordova via the Copper River and Northwestern Railway. By 1938, the supply of copper was exhausted leaving the mine buildings to decay.

The community of Kennecott serves as a starting point for visitors who now come to see the old mines and what is left of the buildings.

Found the location before the hint:

• Lighthouse
• Martin de Bock
• Phil Ower
• Paul Voestermans
• Garfield

After the hint:

• hhgygy
• Graham Hedley

The Fife Earth Project was supposed to turn the St. Ninians Opencast Mine into Scotland’s biggest piece of landscape art until the money ran out.

Local developers approached American artist and cultural theorist Charles Jencks who has a history of numerous landscape artworks across Scotland: the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Cells of Life at Jupiter Artland, Crawick Multiverse, and Ueda at the Edinburgh Gallery of Modern Art.

Unfortunately, like many grand plans, the project was forced to scale back due to funding problems. The owner, Scottish Coal, was bankrupted in 2013 and the project was put indefinitely on hold. What remains is a rather bleak and desolate landscape giving an eerie post-industrial feel.

Found before the hint:

• Paul Voestermans
• hhgygy
• Martin de Bock
• Eloy Cano
• Garfield
• Lighthouse
• Phil Ower

Carmel is internationally known for its roundabout network. Since the late 1990’s Carmel has been building and replacing signalized intersections with roundabouts. Carmel now has more than 145 roundabouts, more than any other city in the United States – and only about 15 sets of traffic lights!

Roundabouts move traffic more efficiently and reduce the number of fatalities and serious-injury accidents. They work because of their safety record, their compatibility with the environment, their aesthetics and their ability to make it easier for pedestrians and bicyclists to navigate.

The number of injury accidents in Carmel have reduced by about 80 percent and the number of accidents overall by about 40 percent.

One of the many in Carmel:

Finding the location in a round about way:

• Garfield
• Lighthouse
• hhgygy
• glenmorren
• Paul Voestermans
• Martin de Bock
• Andy McConnell
• LawnBoy
• Phil Ower
• Eloy Cano

And after the hint:

• Luís Filipe Miguel