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Drawing myself away from the female pictures here (We should get more girls here  ), what was the place you were exploring Death? It actually looks rather intruiging. |
There are loads of those things where I live.
I was following the trackbed of an abandoned railroad line when I came across this shut down industry.
In actual fact it's a kaolin-dryer. When the kaolin is extracted from the ground, it's mixed with water and sucked up to one of these places. That huge central structure is actually a furnace, once it's lit the doors are kept closed, and the heat travels under the floor toward the chimney stack you see at the far end. The kaolin water is sitting on the heated floor, and this causes the water mixed with the kaolin to evaporate, leaving dry kaolin, which is bagged and then loaded onto a train.
The kaolin is then taken off to be used in pottery, paper, and as a filler for various things. Kaolin is what makes paper glossy and porcelain glazed. It also acts as a whitening agent.
It's the second one I've explored so far. There's about two or three more on that particular railroad line that I still haven't explored, with the last one on the line being an absolutely huge kaolin drying complex. Plus there is a second abandoned line that I haven't explored at all yet, with about 10 kaolin dryers - So I've got my work cut out!