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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A small upper level was accessible via ladder through the hole in this ceiling. Ben for scale.
From left to right: shaft building, headframe, rock house, hoist house.
Past the underground repair shop is this cliffside adit.
The mine was built with stone, wood, and steel. It’s in good condition.
Smashed TVs and stone foundations in a former common room in the basement.
A panoramic view of the sintering plant’s gas plant (?). Everyone who visits must get a picture of these rusty smokestacks!
A jankey ladder leads to a platform over a wooden tank. Here’s hoping my usage contributes to jankey being accepted into the dictionary! Thanks, lexicographers.
In what used to be a hallway under what used to be a skyway, each with what had conveyor belts for the grain that once was stored here. The fog doesn’t change.
A buck-fifty shot for a postcard stand. Taken from the Stone Arch Bridge.