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.
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A truck loading dock for raw materials. Looking at the concrete, you can sort of tell where the rails used to run.
Originally, this part of the dock was reserved for the weather station.
Taken around 11,600 feet.
“Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and historian.
When I see this picture, I imagine that I am an ant exploring a mushroom farm.
My first picture at Nopeming, sometime around 2004. The same year that the county stopped mowing the lawn.
The west portal of the tunnel is open, and if it wasn’t for the rough track, I would think by looking at it that a train could be coasting up behind me any moment. Mamiya 6/Portra 160
This electric Wellman crane was added to extract coal from ships for the power plant that Erie built beside their dock. Now, with the advent of self-unloading boats, it’s been replaced by a funnel and conveyor belt.
At Treasure Mountain mine. This collapsed building was likely the 1937 Compressor House, which pushed compressed air and water into the Sanitago Tunnel in the time it was producing.