An experimental shaft dug in the 1950s and its Hoist House.
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A bumper sticker with the usual tagline. Note the detail on the radiator!
Ben
Hanging over the crane cab, looking over at the trane-sized doors below. The steel beam tracing the left wall is the support for the gantry crane this photo was taken from.
“Against the blue sky, its rusting central silos look like rising smoke meeting the last minutes of a sunset. These give way to a corrugated night sky of blue gray, punched-through with staggered four-pane windows, all glassless.”
A safe distance from Prize Mine is its dynamite storage vault, designed to explode up–not out–should the worst happen.
The dock is still lit at night and it casts shadows over the rust-welded ore doors.
This gives you a sense for what it looks like to stand on the roof of the main production building at sunset.
I really like the way this high-ceilinged room is decaying. Well, decayed. It’s demolished now.
Empty equipment racks behind a missile launcher.