The quenching water was reused over and over.
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In front of the mine building the ground has opened up, showing a one-subterranean hallway. Locals seem to be using the dangerous hole as a trash dump.
A back-lit tree with the silhouette of a roof spire in the background.
Construction in 2014 reveals a lost stone sign.
The sidewalks are littered with rocks.
One of the clusters of elevators. Doors would open on both sides so that vehicles could be moved through them if necessary. There is only one set of stairs in the whole building.
Check that waterfall!
The cemetery for the old asylum is, sadly, largely unmarked. Only in recent years has there been a real effort to locate and identify the remains there.
Looking toward the old power house, right below one of its arteries.
I included this image to illustrate the height of the headgrame and the distance between it and the hoist house. Of course, compared with the depth of the mine shaft, this distance is short.