Here, the concentrated gold (and silver, and zinc, I would guess) would be loaded into trucks bound for the smelter.
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When I wasn’t paying enough attention on the rotten balcony, I accidentally put my foot through a rotten floorboard. I snapped a picture to remember the moment.
A better look at the rails in the floor, installed to help move heavy equipment around the building.
“The fresh snow mixed indistinguishably from the ashes of the half-demolished power plant.”
The taller of the two smokestacks on site. Note the crack around its crown.
The license plate reads “Farm Truck”.
Looking through a launcher doorway at an outbuilding… the fire truck garage, if I recall correctly. Fomapan medium format in Pentax 67.
Two signatures complement this gorgeous hand-painted sign. ‘Bowers’ from 1987 and ‘Normal’ from 1982. The blocking on the letters is still visible!
Minnesota Power’s Taconite Harbor power station, as seen through the ship loading control room windows.
Modern ruins of the Gilman-Belden tram…