Steam pipes snake up the walls like vines, but with asbestos.
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A me-sized hole in the half-demolished skyway looks about a story down to the ground. Step lightly. Arista 100.
Inside the pilot copper concentrator.
The walls are separating on the adobe house…
The interior of one of the curved corridors that connect two wards. Note the original floor’s hand-laid tile pattern. Portra 160.
At the extreme eastern end of the plant is a bank of modern concrete silos. Kodak Portra 160/Mamiya 6.
Fall in line, act skinny, watch out for low hanging pipes. Don’t ask me where in the maze this was… 90% of the plant looked like this; vast rooms and catwalks with crisscrossing pipes and valves.
The bricks routinely fell from the walls, like seeds falling from trees. On a smaller scale, new walls grew from the floors.
This is part of the oldest section of factory, one that hasn’t had a roof in a long time and all usable equipment has been extracted. The machines pictured would spin sliced beets in boiling water… it was a sealed system before someone cut holes on sides of each unit.
The power lines follow the street, down to the mineshaft. Everything revolved around the mine, it seemed.