A safe distance from Prize Mine is its dynamite storage vault, designed to explode up–not out–should the worst happen.
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The bricks are decaying at different rates at this corner, making it especially colorful.
Steel mine hoists, near the place they worked, wait for scrap prices to justify their final removal from Osceola, Michigan.
Looking through skylights of the payroll office toward the Cheratte No.1’s tower. This is where workers would wait in line to receive pay, surrounded by the mine workings.
The Gold Prince is dead, but its ruins show how over-engineered it once was. Although its foundations were concrete, seen here, the rest of the mill was steel. All of its steel and equipment was removed to fix the Sunnyside Mill in Eureka.
Two roads; the left one you can walk down, but you have to answer questions when people ask. The right one–you don’t want to be found on that one.
A long exposure of the launch pad and its dedicated guard shack. In the middle of the base is a tall antenna which was part of the MARS program during the Gulf War. The MARS program helped connect calls between deployed soldiers and their families.
2015. Exterior of chapel.
Beside the shaft building are two fans on skids, indicating they were used underground.
One of the old cooperage buildings is largely unchanged from when it was built. The raised section of the building houses a crane.