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    • Taylor Park placer mining- beyond Buena Vista

    • Taylor Park placer mining- beyond Buena Vista

    • View of the construction of a placer mining sluice in Taylor Park, Gunnison County, Colorado. Men stand near a wooden sluice in the bottom of a small canyon. Piles of rock and wood stand in the bottom of the canyon near the sluice. Two men, one on...

    • Gunnison County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Flumes--Colorado--Gunnison County--1890-1910.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Gunnison County--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Gunnison County--1890-1910.

    • [between 1890 and 1910?]
    • Seeking Gold with Water Pressure.

    • Seeking Gold with Water Pressure.

    • A man leans over a wooden sluice in California. Rocks line the outside of the wood boards that create the sluice. A metal pipe rests on the wood.

    • Gold miners--California--1890-1920.; Gold mining--California--1890-1920.; Hydraulic mining--California--1890-1920.

    • [between 1890 and 1915]
    • Taylor Park placer mining- beyond Buena Vista

    • Taylor Park placer mining- beyond Buena Vista

    • View of three men placer mining (panning) at Taylor Park, Gunnison County, Colorado. Two men kneel near a small sluice, and hold a metal pans. One man looks on. Piles of rocks and wood and dry grass line the sluice.

    • Taylor Park (Gunnison County, Colo.)--1890-1910.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Gunnison County--1890-1910.

    • [between 1890 and 1910?]
    • Early placer mining

    • Early placer mining

    • Placer miners work near a sluice in Russell Gulch, Gilpin County, Colorado. Their tools include wheelbarrows, shovels, picks, and pitchforks. Monitors spray water, mine buildings are on the surrounding hills. David Henderson is in the foreground,...

    • Russell Gulch (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Gold mining--Colorado--Russell Gulch--1860-1870.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Russell Gulch--1860-1870.; Miners--Colorado--Russell Gulch--1860-1870.; Mining--Colorado--Russell Gulch--1860-1870.;...

    • [between 1860 and 1870]
    • Sluicing

    • Sluicing

    • Three Chinese men sluice for gold near an embankment in Colorado. Shows a wooden mine sluice.

    • Chinese Americans--Colorado--1870-1890.; Gold mining--Colorado--1870-1890.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--1870-1890.; Mining--Colorado--1870-1890.; Sluices--Colorado--1870-1890.

    • [between 1878 and 1881?]
    • Sluice mining

    • Sluice mining

    • View of men placer mining probably somewhere in Colorado; men working with sluice box & shovels in streambed; copy glass plate attributed to L.C.McClure.

    • Sluices--Colorado--1890-1910.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--1890-1910.

    • [between 1890 and 1910]
    • Keystone Placer Mine. Sluice boxes

    • Keystone Placer Mine. Sluice boxes

    • View of the Keystone placer mine, shows frame mine buildings and a wooden sluice, San Miguel County, Colorado.

    • Keystone Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; San Miguel County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Flumes--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--San Miguel...

    • [between 1882 and 1900?]
    • Mining equipment processing three men and a woman near a sluice box

    • Mining equipment processing three men and a woman near a sluice box

    • Miners pose near a sluice, probably near Denver, Colorado. A woman sits nearby.

    • Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.

    • [between 1904 and 1915?]
    • Keystone Placer Mine, sluice boxes

    • Keystone Placer Mine, sluice boxes

    • View of the Keystone Placer Mine in San Miguel County Colorado. Shows mining buildings and sluice apparatus.

    • Keystone Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; San Miguel County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Flumes--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--San Miguel...

    • [between 1882 and 1900?]
    • Concrete sluice during construction of the Alameda Avenue subway

    • Concrete sluice during construction of the Alameda Avenue subway

    • View of Alameda Avenue underpass construction in Denver, Colorado; shows men pouring concrete through a sluice into forms.

    • Concrete construction--Formwork--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Sluices--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Underpasses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Construction workers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.;...

    • [1909 or 1910]
    • Miners and sluice

    • Miners and sluice

    • Miners with rakes and shovels attend a sluice system at an unidentified mine, possibly in Boulder County, Colorado.

    • Mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Sluices--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.

    • [between 1890 and 1900?]
    • Miners near a sluice

    • Miners near a sluice

    • Miners and their families pose near a sluice probably in Colorado. Their cabins are nearby.

    • Sluices--Colorado--1860-1880.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--1860-1880.; Miners--Colorado--1860-1880.

    • [between 1861 and 1875]
    • Hydraulic mining. The sluice blocks

    • Hydraulic mining. The sluice blocks

    • View of a placer gold mine sluice between eroded embankments in California.

    • Sluices--California--1860-1880.; Hydraulic mining--California--1860-1880.; Mining--California--1860-1880.

    • [between 1865 and 1880?]
    • Sluice box - placer mining in the hills

    • Sluice box - placer mining in the hills

    • Miners use a sluice box for hydraulic gold placer mining, in South Dakota.

    • Sluices--South Dakota--1880-1890.; Hydraulic mining--South Dakota--1880-1890.; Miners--South Dakota--1880-1890.; Mining equipment--South Dakota--1880-1890.; Mining--South Dakota--1880-1890.

    • 1889
    • Guards at Stratton's Independence mine in sluice way

    • Guards at Stratton's Independence mine in sluice way

    • Colorado National Guard is posted in front of Winfield Scott Stratton's Independence Mine during the Western Federation of Miners strike, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado. One man sits with his feet in the sluice; tailings in background.

    • Colorado. National Guard--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904.; Sluices--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Cripple Creek...

    • 1903
    • Golconda extension placer mine, La Plata Mountains, Colo.

    • Golconda extension placer mine, La Plata Mountains, Colo.

    • View of the Golconda Group Mine in Summitville, Rio Grande County, Colorado. Shows wood plank building, log cabin, and tent. A sluice box sits in an excavated trench. Men are in the distance.

    • Golconda Group Mine (Rio Grande County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Summitville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Summitville--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Summitville--1890-1900.; Sluices--Colorado--Summitville--1890-1900.

    • 1893
    • Golconda placer mine, La Plata Mountains, Colo.

    • Golconda placer mine, La Plata Mountains, Colo.

    • View of the Golconda Group Mine near Summitville in Rio Grand County, Colorado. A sluice box sits in an excavated trench. Men work near the trench. Mount Hesperus (Hesperus Mountain) is in the distance.

    • Golconda Group Mine (Rio Grande County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hesperus Mountain (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Summitville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Summitville--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Summitville--1890-1900.;...

    • 1893
    • Payrock tramway, Georgetown, Colo.

    • Payrock tramway, Georgetown, Colo.

    • View of mine buildings and the aerial tramway at the Payrock Mine near Georgetown in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Shows a sluice box, chute, privy, and frames for the tramway.

    • Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Payrock Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Aerial tramways--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Clear Creek...

    • [between 1890 and 1900?]
    • So. Platte Dr. Co., tragles [sic.]

    • So. Platte Dr. Co., tragles [sic.]

    • Water flows from pipes into long sluice boxes on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge probably near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado.

    • South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Mining machinery--Parts--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Interiors--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.;...

    • [between 1930 and 1950?]
    • 20,000 tons $20.00 ore

    • 20,000 tons $20.00 ore

    • View of the Dew Drop Mine near Ward in Frances (Camp Francis, Dew Drop, Boulder County), Colorado. A man identified as Costy stands on tailings between the old and new shaft houses. Shows a tipple, and a log and wood retaining wall. Lumber and...

    • Dew Drop Mine (Boulder County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Frances (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mine buildings.; Mining.; Tipples.

    • [1895?]
    • Scaffolding and sluiceway for pouring concrete - formwork for retaining walls

    • Scaffolding and sluiceway for pouring concrete - formwork for retaining walls

    • View of Alameda underpass construction in Denver, Colorado; shows concrete forms, a sluice, and spectators.

    • Concrete construction--Formwork--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Sluices--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Underpasses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Construction--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.

    • [1909 or 1910]
    • Sluiceway for pouring concrete - formwork for retaining walls

    • Sluiceway for pouring concrete - formwork for retaining walls

    • View of Alameda underpass construction in Denver, Colorado; shows concrete forms, a sluice, and machinery.

    • Concrete construction--Formwork--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Sluices--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Underpasses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Construction--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.

    • [1909 or 1910]
    • Silver Ledge mine

    • Silver Ledge mine

    • A landscape oil painting of the Silver Ledge Mine by Frank Russell Green. The painting is of a red and brown mine building, mill building, green mountains, sky, trees, sluice, roads, chimneys and smoke stacks. The frame is gilded and molded wood.

    • Mine buildings--1890-1920.; Mining--1890-1920.

    • [between 1897 and 1913]
    • Mining panning

    • Mining panning

    • Miners pan for gold, probably in the South Platte River, near Denver, Colorado. A small sluice and a shovel are nearby.

    • Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1900-1920.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Rivers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.

    • [between 1904 and 1915?]
    • Industries construction

    • Industries construction

    • Workmen dig with shovels near a sluice in Archer Canal in Denver, Colorado. A bridge on Alameda Avenue is in the distance.

    • Sluices--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Canals--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Construction workers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Digging--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.

    • [between 1904 and 1909]
    • Industries construction equipment steam tractor in scene at Alameda subway site

    • Industries construction equipment steam tractor in scene at Alameda subway site

    • A workman adds oil to the engine of an M. Rumely tractor near the Alameda Avenue underpass construction site in Denver, Colorado. Another man poses near a sluice used to transport mixed concrete.

    • Underpasses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Construction workers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Construction--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Tractors--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.

    • [1909]
    • Ore cars

    • Ore cars

    • Miners work with mule-drawn ore carts and a sluice at a placer mine probably in Colorado. A tent is nearby.

    • Horse railroads--Colorado--1890-1910.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--1890-1910.

    • [between 1890 and 1910?]
    • Mine

    • Mine

    • View of the shafthouse of a mine in Colorado. A wooden sluice is near the building.

    • Mine buildings--Colorado--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--1890-1910.

    • [between 1890 and 1910?]
    • Placer mining

    • Placer mining

    • A view of a placer mining operation possibly in Colorado. What may be a sluice leads down to a river.

    • Hydraulic mining--1890-1910.; Mining--1890-1910.

    • [between 1890 and 1910]
    • Baumert & Fitcher Placer La Belle, N. M.

    • Baumert & Fitcher Placer La Belle, N. M.

    • Miners stand by a wooden sluice at the Baumert & Fitcher Placer mine operation near La Belle, New Mexico. A tree-covered hill is in the distance.

    • Sluices--New Mexico--La Belle--1890-1910.; La Belle (N.M.)--1890-1910.; Hydraulic mining--New Mexico--La Belle--1890-1910.; Mining--New Mexico--La Belle--1890-1910.

    • [between 1890 and 1910?]
    • Placer mining La Belle, NM

    • Placer mining La Belle, NM

    • Miners use a hydraulic monitor nozzle at a placer mine operation in La Belle, New Mexico. Large rocks line a sluice nearby.

    • La Belle (N.M.)--1890-1910.; Hydraulic mining--New Mexico--La Belle--1890-1910.; Miners--New Mexico--La Belle--1890-1910.; Mining--New Mexico--La Belle--1890-1910.

    • [between 1890 and 1910?]
    • Irrigation ditch

    • Irrigation ditch

    • View of an irrigation ditch possibly in Colorado. A sluice crosses above the irrigation ditch. Mesas are in the distance.

    • Irrigation canals & flumes--1900-1920.

    • [between 1901 and 1920?]
    • Keystone placer mine giant at work

    • Keystone placer mine giant at work

    • View of mining operations at the Keystone Mine in San Miguel County, Colorado. Shows sluice boxes and a large pipe with hydraulic nozzles.

    • Keystone Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; San Miguel County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Flumes--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1900.

    • [between 1882 and 1900?]
    • Ouray and Portland basin

    • Ouray and Portland basin

    • Panoramic view of buildings, railroads, and wagons on probably the Otto Mears toll road near Portland Creek in the San Juan Mountains in Ouray (Ouray County), Colorado. Shows Denver and Rio Grande freight cars on tracks near dirt roads, frame...

    • Ouray (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Ouray--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Ouray--1880-1900.

    • [between 1888 and 1900?]
    • One of Colorado's irrigation ditches

    • One of Colorado's irrigation ditches

    • View of water running through sluice of an irrigation ditch somewhere in Colorado; field in background with low vegetation, flat horizon.

    • Irrigation--Colorado--1890-1920.

    • [between 1890 and 1920]
    • A Colorado irrigation ditch

    • A Colorado irrigation ditch

    • View of an irrigation ditch on farmland near the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado; two men stand on cement embankment next to sluice; mountains in distance.

    • Agriculture--Colorado--1900-1920.; Irrigation--Colorado--1900-1920.

    • [between 1900 and 1920]
    • A Colorado irrigation ditch

    • A Colorado irrigation ditch

    • View, from downstream, of an irrigation ditch on the eastern plains of Colorado; water foams as it tumbles through wood-slatted sluice; cows graze on banks of ditch; fenced farmland in background; flat horizon with windmill and trees.

    • Agriculture--Colorado--1900-1920.; Cattle--Colorado--1900-1920.; Irrigation--Colorado--1900-1920.

    • [between 1900 and 1920]
    • Colorado mining

    • Colorado mining

    • View of two arrastras, large horizontal wheels, powered by water brought in by flumes, somewhere in early mining camp in Colorado. The wheels were possibly used for crushing ore or as a sluice box.

    • Mining--Colorado--1870-1880.

    • 1876
    • Near Ward, Colo.

    • Near Ward, Colo.

    • View of a sluice constructed on a mine dump and an unidentified mill building near Ward, Boulder County, Colorado.

    • Sluices--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Spoil banks--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.

    • [between 1890 and 1900]
    • Miners working on Boreas Pass

    • Miners working on Boreas Pass

    • Miners work a sluice with metal pans on Boreas Pass near Breckenridge (Summit County), Colorado.

    • Boreas Pass (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Summit County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.

    • [between 1880 and 1890]
    • Colorado coal mining

    • Colorado coal mining

    • View of what appears to be an abandoned sluice; possibly from a coal mine operated by the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, Colorado.

    • Rocky Mountain Fuel Company--Facilities--1920-1940.; Abandoned mines--Colorado--1920-1940.; Coal mining--Colorado--1920-1940.; Mining--Colorado--1920-1940.

    • [between 1920 and 1940?]
    • Pike's Peak from Colo. City

    • Pike's Peak from Colo. City

    • View of Pikes Peak from Colorado City, west of Colorado Springs, Colorado; creek flows at center of image (probably Camp Creek); shows cottonwood trees, fence, water running through sluice, automobile parked in shadows, and mountains in background.

    • Camp Creek (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1900-1920.

    • [between 1901 and 1920]
    • Placer mining in Gregory Gulch between Central City and Black Hawk, Colo.

    • Placer mining in Gregory Gulch between Central City and Black Hawk, Colo.

    • Placer miners pose near a sluice in Gregory Gulch (Gilpin County), Colorado. Shows mine buildings and cabins.

    • Sluices--Colorado--Gilpin County--1860-1870.; Gregory Gulch (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Cabins--Colorado--Gilpin County--1860-1870.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1860-1870.; Miners--Colorado--Gilpin County--1860-1870.;...

    • [between 1860 and 1870]
    • Placer mining, Farncomb Hill

    • Placer mining, Farncomb Hill

    • Water pours from hoses on a hillside at a placer mine on Farncomb Hill (Summit County), Colorado. Surface structures and a sluice are nearby.

    • Farncomb Hill (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Summit County--1880-1900.; Summit County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Summit County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Summit County--1880-1900.

    • [between 1880 and 1900?]
    • Hendrie-Bolthoff's foundry, Central City, 1941

    • Hendrie-Bolthoff's foundry, Central City, 1941

    • Snow covers the ruins of the Hendrie-Bolthoff Foundry in Central City. A decaying water sluice pours water into the creek below. The creek banks are muddy and partially covered with snow. The wood, masonry, and tin walls are crumbling and in decay....

    • Central City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Foundries--Colorado--Central City--1940-1950.; Ruins--Colorado--Central City--1940-1950.

    • 1941
    • High bridge of the loop, near Georgetown.

    • High bridge of the loop, near Georgetown.

    • A Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf passenger train crosses a trestle over a canyon and Clear Creek near Georgetown, Colorado. Shows a wooden sluice in Clear Creek.

    • Union Pacific, Denver, and Gulf Railway Company--1890-1900.; Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1900.;...

    • 1895
    • Sluicing

    • Sluicing

    • Chinese miners work at a sluice possibly in Colorado. They wear long shirts and wide-brimmed hats.

    • Chinese-Americans--Colorado--1880-1900.; Sluices--Colorado--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--1880-1900.

    • [between 1881 and 1900?]

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