Gold, which has a relatively high mass, would drop through the slats of the sluice boxes as the water flowed over them. Around the dredge were a half dozen radiator pipes to keep the water flowing through the machines.
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Easier-to-demolish parts of the power plant were torched apart. Catwalks to nowhere meant lots of dead ends.
The top floor’s old-fashioned hospital ways were too much to pass without a photo or two… with the paint falling off the walls it was as if the building was shedding its skin in an effort to become rejuvenated or useful.
Spots of yellow gravel mark gold mines with nothing left on the surface. Is this one of the drainage pipes?
Some warnings on the older battery which was visibly older than its eastern counterpart. This set of batteries had no railing between the side of the ovens and a long drop onto railroad tracks… I like this picture because it shows the effects of the heat and corrosive gasses on the area around the ovens.
A one-of-a-kind installation in Armour’s otherwise gutted engine house.
The bricks routinely fell from the walls, like seeds falling from trees. On a smaller scale, new walls grew from the floors.
Note the tiled floor between the bucket conveyors and an old mill.
It was interesting that, even though storms had carried the wooden walkway that stretched under the dock, these piles of spilled taconite remain where they had dropped.
The scale of the grain hoppers helps tell the story of how large Hamm’s was in its day.