The gold mine is now a gravel pit.
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Some of the earlier buildings were dressed up with brick facades.
A hydraulic ‘bridge’ couple lower onto the tracks to bring mine cars into the shaft house, presumably for repair. I haven’t found this system anywhere else, but it makes a lot of sense.
The working end of the blast furnace, where molten metal would flow like lava out of the furnace… a process called ‘tapping’.
A tram that once linked the Sunnyside Mine to the mill in Eureka has been reduced to a single cable. Nearby, an open adit drips water into a tributary of the Animas River.
A squat building with a rail scale. Taken between rain showers in late summer, when I seemed to be the only one at White Pine.
Looking from the rail shipping building through pigeon-proofing chicken wire at another manufacturing building in high Fall.
A natural reaction with this kind of view.
East Elevation of the Depot. Ektar 100/Mamiya 6
These buildings were largely used as concentrators for the crushed rock, although I did spy some small mills inside these too.