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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This little curled yellow thing is one of the last hints that this adobe building was lived in.
These ruins of buildings recovered acid from the explosives line to be recycled.
Sprouts of life in center of a smashed glass block.
The many levels of catwalks make for a place where you can look from the ground floor to the roof, about 4 stories up.
This picture tells half the story about the size of half of the complex. For Port Arthur, it’s average, but this would be a fantastically large elevator if it were anywhere else!
In its last years, the church had a congregation of only about 100. It opened with 1.700…
Algae grows where water flows/From the sawtooth roof/To the mines below/The sun climbs high/But is in no one’s eyes/A wall alone crumbles/It was no suprise
The final ball mill in the Chain O’ Mines concentrator. Behind it was a bucket of steel balls.
In the many-windowed metal building, the lumberyard buildings and the abandoned starch works buildings are separated by a thick wall of pallets.