I made this picture to give the reader a sense of the slope between the mine buildings and the base of the concentrator. The whole area was really steep, and sometimes required scrambling to get up and down the Picayune Gulch for short distances.
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Much of the plant depended on steam, not only for heat but for mechanical power.
One of the machines left over in the underground magnetic separation plant.
The primitive chair caught the falling plaster.
Standing between pockets 1 and 2. You brought hearing protection, right?
This old Jetta did more offroading than your average lifted tinted loud-exhaust pickup.
Outbuildings near the perimeter fence. Beyond is all ranch land.
Between the room with mold sand and the space where the car’s metal bits would be put together, a pillar is marked as structurally vital.
This is one of the rooms near Shaft 1 that was converted to be a Dry Room, where workers would wash and change between shifts.
At sunset the light skips from puddle to stagnant puddle across the whole foundry room, playing with the classic sawtooth roof with half-hearted shadows.