Because the shaft is nearly vertical, rocks riding inside shift a lot. To keep them from breaking down the door and raining into the shaft.
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Water damage dissolved the ceiling into sludge. Pillars remain, as do the plastic light covers, now on the floor.
This steel cup on the card would move molten copper to the caster from the furnace.
Christmas lights from the time Island Station was an art studio lean against a rusty boiler.
On the left is the broken glass room that contains the controls for the cable spool, now gone, that sat in the metal shell on the right. The stairs led down to the hoisting engine itself. You can make out the slits where the cable ran up to the headframe tower through the gaping archway.
Two counterweighted elevators moved men between the surface, mine, and underground mill.
Will coming down “Darwin’s Ladder”.