update 28 July

Mines/Quarries:

DAY 02 -LOCAL GREATER HOBART SITES-

• Lutana - suburb of Hobart, old Zinifex zinc works (defunct 2009??)
• Giblin Street Quarry, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - disused quarry - calcite related minerals (map: http://www.mindat.org/loc-147118.html)
• Tolosa St Quarry, Glenorchy, Hobart - disused - Permian limey mudstones, containing some phosphate nodules. (map: http://www.mindat.org/loc-147118.html)
• Cygnet - poss, Galena in a dyke to south

DAY 03 - *MONA - 5.58–6.32AM start with [LIGHT Exhibition at MONA DAWN/DUSK] http://www.mona.net.au/james-turrell/* *Avoca - 2 old tin mines http://www.mindat.org/loc-126571.html http://www.crocoite.com/locationbulletins/part1/avocaarea.pdf approx. 2 hours from Hobart

REALLY GOOD WEATHER PERMITTING / RISK ASSESSMENT permitting

• Mathinna - 99 miles from Hobart - old gold mines x 3 (some new operation attempted) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathinna,_Tasmania http://www.mindat.org/loc-234509.html https://www.prospectingaustralia.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3879

M- of these the Mathinna location looks the most promising! *(Mount Lyell, Queenstown area is rich in minerals/metals but 3.5 hrs from Hobart)

• Tarkine NW Tasmania incl. Savage River iron ore deposits (approx. 5hrs away)

Nancy and Maria - ALL THESE ABOVE 4 hour drive at least there and more of an over night thing - SO UNLESS WE SPENT both days its probably too far

*Maria and Nancy will LOCK THESE INTO schedule AFTER we do a RISK ASSESSMENT over the coming weeks*

NB: we don't have autobahns/ very rough roads in comparison to EUROPEAN standards | Weather is also very sketchy.

RISK ASSESSMENT will take place via Maria and in consultaition with geo-expert and Jason Thursday 06 AUGUST

Plan to head to Avoca and if going is good on to Mathinna!

_DAY 01_ Introductions All Plimsoll Gallery 24 August 10.00 - 15.00

_DAY 02-03_ Earth Code Field Work 25–26 August dawn to dusk | Sites under discussion / pending risk assessment please see [locations]

_DAY 04_ Rough Presentation of project responses, Gallery set up Schedule Lock in 27 August 9am - 5pm

_DAY 05_ Core Litany 12 hour event - Friday 28 August: 09.00 - 21.00 [9am - 9pm]

_DAY 06_ Break down Core Litany 12 hour event - Saturday 29 August: 09.00 - 12.00 [9am - 12 noon]

DAY 00 23 August: 15:50 Martin, Katie, Jonathon Arrive Tasmania Hobart Airport

DAY 01 Monday 24 August 10.00 - 15.00 Location: Plimsoll Gallery. Introductions by all. Including Questions / admin / invoices / payment issues / house keeping project mandate and expectations

DAY 02-03 Earth Code Fieldwork

DAY 02 Tuesday August 25 LOCAL GREATER HOBART SITES

ALL MEET 05.00am Hunter Street – Centre of the Arts drive together

5.58–6.32AM MONA LIGHT Exhibition at MONA DAWN http://www.mona.net.au/james-turrell/

Then on to: POSSIBLE LOCATIONS - TBC after risk assessment and weather forecast pending. Lutana - suburb of Hobart, old Zinifex zinc works (defunct 2009??) Giblin Street Quarry, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - disused quarry - calcite related minerals (map: http://www.mindat.org/loc-147118.html) Tolosa St Quarry, Glenorchy, Hobart - disused - Permian limey mudstones, containing some phosphate nodules. (map: http://www.mindat.org/loc-147118.html) Cygnet - poss, Galena in a dyke to south

Doug Kahn Arrives 25 August Tuesday 15.55

DAY 03 – Wednesday August 26 Regional Tasmania Avoca - 2 old tin mines http://www.mindat.org/loc-126571.html http://www.crocoite.com/locationbulletins/part1/avocaarea.pdf approx. 2 hours from Hobart/ OR / REALLY GOOD WEATHER PERMITTING / RISK ASSESSMENT permitting Mathinna - 99 miles from Hobart - old gold mines x 3 (some new operation attempted) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathinna,_Tasmania http://www.mindat.org/loc-234509.html https://www.prospectingaustralia.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3879

DAY 04 Thursday 27 August 9am - 5pm - Plimsoll Gallery 27 Rough Presentation of project responses Gallery set up Schedule lock in

DAY 05 – Friday August 28 09.00 - 21.00 [9am - 9pm] Core Litany 12 hour ritual in III ACTS ACT I Anarchaeology of Media ACT II Networked Aesthetics ACT III Ecologies of Performance Current workings http://www.psychogeophysics.org/wiki/doku.php?id=earth_code_core_litany#core_litany

Day 06 Saturday 29 August 09:00 – 17:00 Breakdown Plimsoll Gallery (attendance essential)

DAY 07 SUNDAY

Martin/Kati/Jonathan Depart Sunday - 30 August 8:40 Hobart Airport.

Doug Depart 30 August Sunday 12.05 Hobart Airport.

- voltaic pits - 2 pits filled with mine water && recovered ores from field trip → at Plimsoll spawn various electrolytic-chemical excitations with collected materials *(Nancy: can we use eg. the garden area near Plimsoll patio doors for digging?)* * discussing with Maria - she thinks there may be a little alleyway just near there that might be possible since we can probe courtyard but not too much relandscaping *

- voltaic rock piles (see images)

- diy kiln smelting - for processing collected fieldtrip rocks - ie. metallic ores cf. Mathinna

- charcoal/air/earth voice furnace

- mineral/acid distillations following alchemical recipes (oil of vitriol, aqua fortis, spirit of salt) and their workings on fieldtrip rocks.

- field trip

• buckets for rock collection
• water containers for any tailing water collection (eg. 2x 25L) eg. Mathinna
• rock hammers and chisels, protective plastic goggles, gardening gloves
• spades and trowels

- infrastructure for electronics/etc -

• 500g - 1kg each reels of copper wire of thicknesses 0.15mm, 1mm or close to these dimensions
• standrad plumbing copper tubing/plate plumbing scraps/copper, nails
• soldering stations (3 or 4)
• 1 or 2 power supplies (12v)
• 1 or 2 cheap multimeters
• junked electronics which could be useful such as transformers, computer mainboards, processors, RAM/memory, harddrives
• hand tools such as cutters, handsaws, hammers
• thick metal rods/tubes for grinding minerals - steel plate/similar to grind on
• gaffer tape
• plastic cups

- portable speaker for outside use (this should have its own battery): eg. http://www.ebay.de/itm/Yamaha-Monitor-Amplifier-AA5-Strassenmusiker-Ubungsverstaerker-portable-/131554646993?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_77&hash=item1ea1449bd1&nma=true&si=94LtzbvTbZtL6yyvNkrOLoAfwKA%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 (JK HAS CRAPPY ONE!)

- PA, mixer for inside, beamer, lots of paper (a4 or suitable for printer, a1 for designs and brainstorm), pens, a4 laser printer or dot-matrix with suitable computer/laptop connection (usb/serial)

- some kind of outdoor research-construction kit (to be specified) so 2x large 6v batteries such as http://www.ebay.com/itm/COMBO-OF-2-6V-12Ah-6-Volt-12-amp-hour-Sealed-Lead-Acid-Battery-UB6120-/121021726529

• electric drill, masonry bits (small and big)

- DIY kiln-furnace:

• old working microwave oven (8-900watts+ ideal) [nancy has 1]

• alumina 'bubble' pizza oven bricks (x4) (cf. http://shop.vitcas.com/insulating-fire-bricks-vitcas-grade-28-826-p.asp) - would need to ask for similar in Hobart from these ppl http://www.firebrick.com.au/industrial_products/industrial_products

• ceramic insulation (enough to fill microwave oven approx 2m+ x 50cm) - perhaps offcuts of http://www.firebrick.com.au/high_temperature/high_temperature_insulation) (3m x 1m) JK BROUGHT

• silicon carbide or magnetite powder (1-200g) JK BROUGHT
• sodium silicate (waterglass) (100ml) JK BROUGHT
• hard alumina sheet JK BROUGHT

• lime/chalk/seashells as flux

- rock/pit voltaics/electrolysis (use clay etc from below)

• gelatin (from baking section) 4x 10g packets
• iron & copper sulphide ores - fieldtrip??
• sea salt (pure salt) - 1-2kg

- charcoal/air/voice furnace:

• 4x fire bricks/stones each around 50cm x 20cm
• regular barbeque charcoal (not briquettes) and fire lighters
• 10kg of potters clay
• plastic tubing (clear, flexible (10mm-20mm) and regular plumbing around 40mm say 1 to 2 metres, scraps also) and various sizes of plastic funnels
• cement and sand for casting concrete (25kg)

Chemicals and chemistry equipment: some to be specified more clearly

• Sulphur (500g): eg. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400g-Sulphur-high-purity-finest-powder-High-grade-Best-value-on-EBAY-L-K-/111668260855?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item19fff26ff7
• Hydrochloric Acid (36-38%) 500ml-1L

• sodium oxide 200g (used in ceramics)

• 4 boxes of Firework/christmas sparklers

• Aluminium powder (very fine - pyro grade) 1kg: eg. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ALUMINIUMPULVER-PYRO-DARK-ALUMINIUM-PULVER-POWDER-ALUMINUMPULVER-200g-/252000175401?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_212&hash=item3aac618529 (jk BROUGHT approx. 300g)

• Black iron oxide and magnetite each 1kg: eg. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-8KG-BLACK-IRON-OXIDE-FE304-FINE-POWDER-/271935330683?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f509bd97b (jk BROUGHT approx. 200g)

• local silica sand (find it on site)
• sea shells and/or bits of chalk/limestone

• saltpeter/potassium nitrate 1kg
• ammonium chloride powder 1kg
• sea salt (pure salt) - 1kg
• ferrous sulphate/ferrous sulfate/iron pyrites 1kg
• fuller's earth powder 1kg

• blowtorch - (Map Pro gas torch/canister) http://www.screwfix.com/p/rothenberger-super-fire-torch-map-pro-gas-cylinder/92347

• pyrex cooking dishes of various sizes (random) http://www.amazon.com/Pyrex-Bakeware-8-Inch-Square-Clear/dp/B00004SZ7K
• roundbottom pyrex flask (500ml 1 litre, NS29 standard connection at top to distillation tube/condensor)
• distillation tubes eg. liebig or west condensor 200-400mm long: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Glass-West-Condenser-14-20-400mm-/221803485586? but NS29
• collecting flasks (any lab-style flasks) 500mL to 1L size (erlenmeyer, round flasks) (all of this is for basic distillation setup so the sizes of the connections need to match eg. see:http://www.glasswaresforlab.com/prd_gall.php?cat_id=78 but we don't need thermometers and where thermometers are we would need glass stoppers)
• tube of silicone grease to seal glass joints of distillation apparatus
• plastic tubing to fit distillation tube for cooling water
• small pond pump to fit tubes
• glass cleaning/bottle cleaning brushes
• old tin cans of various sizes
• tin foil
• test tubes
• sieves (cheap)

• Health & Safety stuff
• 2x vapour masks;
• nitrile gloves (x15 pairs),
• heavy duty rubber gloves (x2)
• welding gloves - JK BROUGHT

some kind of outdoor research-construction kit - please elaborate - nancy has large batteries and rechargers nancy - any links/specs? ALL HERE: http://www.miss-hack.org/?batteries-plimsoll/

Please note _ I WILL HAVE TO TEST these to see if they work - as i haven't used them for eaons… : ( : /

Battery 01: Battery Warehouse - Sealed rechargeable battery. 12V 1.3A application floating use 13.5 - 13.8

BYO thermals, snacks and bonhomie.

Your personal tool kit may be extended over the course of the event, participants are asked to bring along

• rubber gloves
• goggles
• any fume masks they have
• soldering irons
• recording devices (paper, pens, audio recorders, cameras, headphones)
• scrap metals, minerals, rock ores