Near Howardsville, Colorado, the Animas River gets quite wide. This is near the Little Nation Mill, which is worth a stop if you’re traveling north from SIlverton. It’s also near the former Gold King Mine, which “blew” in 2015 and flooded the Animas River with toxic mine water.
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The workshop and parts room was full of light and meticulously sorted bolts, nuts, washers, gaskets, and all sorts of specialty hardware.
The metallic arms of the missile erector, which would stand rockets over the blast pit in the launch position. Medium Format film–cheap but excellent Fomapan 100 in a Pentax 67.
One of the few artifacts left in the chapel section is this old floor buffing machine.
Downtown and the blight.
Boards on the window are like rings on a tree, if you know how to read abandonments.
The purpose of the concentrator was to separate the gold and silver-rich ore from the waste rock. You can tell from the design that the process relies heavily on gravity.
Furnace #6; its catwalk and tapway. Note the lever-operated gutter-blockers.
Preparing to drive up the narrow road into Picayune Gulch, which was barely wide enough for my SUV.
The substation has definite structural issues. Pictured is the sidewalk that connected the plant to the company housing.