View of an unidentified tailings pile and pond near an unidentified stream in possibly San Miguel County, Colorado. Shows a metal frame structure, a conduit and a building in the center of the tailings.
View of the first Slide mill on the south side of Left Hand Canyon, Boulder County, Colorado. It is perched on the side of a steep hill with a large tailings pile above it and to the side. In the 1930s, the sixty foot timber wall of the mine's...
Tailings embankments--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Left Hand Canyon (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.
Two men in suits, coats, and hats stand on a platform above a tall tailings pile at a mining camp near Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado. A utility pole is partially buried by the tailings. A painted wood building and other mill structures are...
Two automobiles are parked by a building, to one side of a tunnel, atop a tailings dump at the We-got-em mine (Gilpin County Gold Mining Company), Gilpin County, Colorado. Discarded mining equipment litters the area below the tailings.
Mine buildings--Colorado--Gilpin County--1910-1930.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Gilpin County--1910-1930.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1910-1930.; We-Got-Em Mine (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1910-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1910-1930.
A mine shafthouse with several levels stands in the right foreground near large piles of mine tailings, probably near Central City in Gilpin County, Colorado. Several additional buildings stand in the background at the base of a hillside. Another...
Mine buildings--Colorado--Central City--1890-1920.; Mine shafts--Colorado--Central City--1890-1920.; Tailings (Metallurgy)--Colorado--Central City--1890-1920.; Central City (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1920.
A large mine shafthouse with several levels stands in the right midground near large piles of tailings, probably near Central City in Gilpin County, Colorado. Additional buildings stand in the background at the base of a hill. Another mine...
Mine buildings--Colorado--Central City--1890-1920.; Mine shafts--Colorado--Central City--1890-1920.; Tailings (Metallurgy)--Colorado--Central City--1890-1920.; Central City (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1920.;...
The Wood Mine stands on a ridge at the top of a large pile of tailings, possibly in Gilpin County, Colorado. Additional mine shafthouses and piles of tailings stand in the right midground near the Wood Mine. Several more shafthouses stand at the...
A log retaining wall (cribbing) shores up mine tailings beside a road in Victor (Teller County), Colorado. Abandoned mines and tailings are in the distance.
Victor (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Abandoned mines--Colorado--Victor--1970-1980.; Retaining walls--Colorado--Victor--1970-1980.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Victor--1970-1980.
Men, women and children, who include the Lund and Greulich families, pose on tailings in the mine dump of the Dew Drop Mine near Ward in Frances (Camp Francis, Dew Drop, Boulder County), Colorado. Two women wear long dresses and capes, one woman...
Dew Drop Mine (Boulder County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Frances (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Families.; Mine buildings.; Mining.; Tipples.; Greulich family.; Lund family.
View of Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Men work near horse-drawn wagons, mine tailings, and railroad tracks. Shows one and two-story residences and commercial buildings. The mountainside is spotted with mine tailings in the distance.
View of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking northwest, includes the tracks of the Colorado and Southern Railroad in the foreground, with mine tailings and hydraulic dredge in a water filled pit. Dwellings and commercial buildings follow; one has an...
View of the Brodie Gold Reduction Company's works at Mound City, Teller County, Colorado. A one and two story sloped metal building with four anchored smokestacks stands near a pile of mine tailings. A one story wood building stands above the mine...
Brodie Gold Reduction Company (Mound City, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mound City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Mound City--1890-1900.; Ore industry--Colorado--Mound City--1890-1900.
View of three dilapidated structures in Carson, Colorado; shows vertical board and batten siding and steep gabled roofs on two of the structures, and a false front on the third (saloon); discarded timbers (possibly the remains of a fallen...
Two dump trucks are parked in the reclamation area at the Urad mine site, Clear Creek County, Colorado. Crushed rock from the Henderson mine was hauled here and used as tailings cover and substrate for vegetation. The mill is in the background.
Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Urad Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Mining--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1970-1980.; Reclamation of land--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1970-1980.
View of a portal and tailings on a hillside at the We-got-em mine (Gilpin County Gold Mining Company), Gilpin County, Colorado. Discarded mining equipment litters the area below the tailings.
Gilpin County (Colo.)--1930-1940.; We-Got-Em Mine (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1930-1940.
View of Newhouse Tunnel, mine dump tailings and smelter east of Idaho Springs, Colorado; shows Colorado and Southern Railway narrow gauge track and siding beside Clear Creek, Bertha Gold Mining and Milling Company wooden frame building, and Sun and...
Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1900-1910.; Colorado and Southern Railway.
View of Central City, Colorado, taken from the west probably during the summer or early fall. The Opera House is in the lower right corner, and the Teller House is to its left. St. Mary's Church is in the center of the image. Tailings, which...
View of Central City, Colorado, overlooking the town from Central Hill. A mine, its tailings, and the tracks for the ore cars sit on the barren hill in the foreground. St. Aloysisus' Convent and School is behind the mine. Below in the gulch is...
Central City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1880-1890.
Men pose on mining equipment in front of the Vindicator Mine on Bull Hill in the Cripple Creek Mining District,Teller County, Colorado. Shows a frame mine building with an unfinished roof, outbuildings and tailings piles. Small tailings piles and...
Teller County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Vindicator Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Teller County--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Teller County--1890-1900.
View of the abandoned Bachelor Mine, tailings piles supported by log retaining walls and wooden mine buildings near rock formations on Bachelor Mountain near Creede in Mineral County, Colorado.
Bachelor Mine (Mineral County, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Mineral County (Colo.)--1990-2000.; MIning.; Tailings embankments.; Mines and mineral resources--Colorado--Mineral County--Pictorial works.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Mineral...
View of the drainage system and tailings pond at the Henderson Mill in Grand County, Colorado.
AMAX, Inc.--Branches, chapters, etc.--1970-1980.; Henderson Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--Facilities--1970-1980.; Tailings dams--Colorado--Grand County--1970-1980.; Grand County (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Mining--Colorado--Grand County--1970-1980.
Men and women stand by automobiles parked near a pile of mine tailings near Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado.
Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Automobiles--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
View of the town of Anaconda and surrounding mines in Teller county, Colorado. View includes Low Line, Mary McKinney (McKinney Mining Company), and Morning Glory mines. Industrial features on the landscape include mine tailings, smelters and ore...
Panoramic view of frame houses and buildings in Altman (Teller County), Colorado. Shows tailings piles near log cabins and buildings on a commercial street with a sign that reads: "Altman Union Rooming House." Snow is on Pikes Peak and mountains in...
View of mine buildings and tailings piles in the Platoro - Gilmore Mining District (Conejos County), Colorado; pine forest covers hills in the background.
View of the Colorado Fuel & Iron mine at Monarch Pass in Chaffee County, Colorado; shows shaft house, sheds, tailings, and Denver and Rio Grande railroad tracks with cars full of ore.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Buildings--1940-1950.; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Chaffee County...
View mines near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado; shows Cripple Creek & Colorado Springs Railroad narrow gauge track and train, mines, tailings, headframes, and ore car tracks.
Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway--1910-1920.; Teller County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Teller County--1910-1920.; Railroads--Colorado--Teller County--1910-1920.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Teller County--1910-1920.
View of Hope Mine Company operations near Aspen (Pitkin County), Colorado; shows the mine entrance, tailings, ore processing sheds, a smokestack, lumber, and railroad grade.
Hope Mine (Pitkin County, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Pitkin County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Pitkin County--1910-1920.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Pitkin County--1910-1920.
View of a head frame, tailings, and surface structures at the Golden Cycle #2 mine, Victor (Teller County), Colorado.
Mine buildings--Colorado--Victor--1940-1950.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Victor--1940-1950.; Golden Cycle Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Victor (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Victor--1940-1950.
Smoke rises from smokestacks on a hillside at the Robert Emmet Mine probably in Lake County, Colorado. Shows frame buildings, headframes and tailings piles on a hillside.
Lake County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Lake County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Lake County--1890-1900.; Smokestacks--Colorado--Lake County--1890-1900.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Lake County--1890-1900.
View of multi-level processing mills with gabled roofs, probably in Colorado. Shows tailings, barrels, piles of logs, a guard rail and a rocky hill. Cables hang from a roof.
A row of ore carts sit on train tracks on a tailings embankment at the Rico Argentine Mining Company Mine near the town of Rico (Dolores County), Colorado. Snow covers the ground and the Dolores River flows under a bridge.
Dolores River (Colo. and Utah)--1930-1940.; Rico (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Rico Argentine Mining Company Mine (Dolores County, Colo.)--1930-1950.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Rico--1930-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Rico--1930-1950.; Tailings...
Workers dump ore cars from the Rico Argentine Mining Company Mine over a tailings embankment and into the Dolores River near the town of Rico (Dolores County), Colorado. A wood bridge is in the distance.
Dolores River (Colo. and Utah)--1930-1950.; Rico (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Rico Argentine Mining Company Mine (Dolores County, Colo.)--1930-1950.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Rico--1930-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Rico--1930-1950.; Tailings...
View of a frame Wolf Tongue Mine building and probably a head frame in Nederland (Boulder County), Colorado. A pickup truck is on a dirt road near the building. Tailings piles for the tungsten mine are nearby.
Nederland (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Wolf Tongue Mine (Boulder County, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Nederland--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Nederland--1940-1950.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Nederland--1940-1950.; Tungsten mines &...
Panoramic view of mines, tailings embankments, and frame houses in Goldfield, (Teller County) Colorado. Shows the Town Hall building, an abandoned automobile, sheds, outhouses and dirt roads.
View of a mine in the Cripple Creek mining district in Teller County, Colorado. Shows smokestacks, a washer building, tailings piles and cribbing on the hillside.
Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904.; Teller County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mine buildings--Colorado--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--1900-1910.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--1900-1910.
View of the Sheridan Mine in Marshall Basin, San Miguel County, Colorado. Shows mine buildings, a wooden building with dormers, a tent cabin, a tipple and tailings embankments. The Mendota Mine is in the distance.
Marshall Basin (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mendota Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; San Miguel County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Sheridan Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--San Miguel County--1890-1900.;...
Miners pose near unidentified log mine buildings in San Miguel County, Colorado. Shows tailings and a log retaining wall. Horses stand near the buildings. A small waterfall, rock formations and a ridge are in the distance.
San Miguel County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log buildings--Colorado--San Miguel County--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--San Miguel County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1890-1900.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--San Miguel...
View of the Sheridan Mine in Marshall Basin, San Miguel County, Colorado. Shows a tent cabin, mine buildings, one with dormers, a covered mine tram and a tipple and tailings. One of the buildings is shored up with timbers.
Marshall Basin (Colo.)--1890-1900.; San Miguel County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Sheridan Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cabins--Colorado--San Miguel County--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--San Miguel County--1890-1900.;...
View of the main street in Red Mountain, Ouray County, Colorado. Shows commercial buildings, wooden sidewalks, a street light and houses. Signs in the town read: "Hotel Airy," "Restaurant," "Laundry," "Caledonia Hotel," "Clothing, Dry Goods," and...
National Belle Mine (Ouray County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Red Mountain (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Red Mountain--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Red Mountain--1890-1900.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Red Mountain--1890-1900.;...
Men, women and children pose on tailings in a mine dump, and a man poses in an ore car on a log tipple, at the Dew Drop Mine near Ward in Frances (Camp Francis, Dew Drop, Boulder County), Colorado. The men wear hats and the women wear long dresses...
A couple identified as Mr. and Mrs. Hill and two young girls sit on a tailings pile at the Dew Drop Mine in Ward (Boulder County), Colorado. Mrs. Hill wears a dark dress with a velvet jacket with puff sleeves. She wears a velvet hat with a large...
Dew Drop Mine (Boulder County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Ward (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Girls.; Mining.; Spouses.; Tailings embankments.; Tipples.; Hill family.
Men, women and children pose seated or standing on tailings in a mine dump, or sitting on horseback at the Dew Drop Mine near Ward in Frances (Camp Francis, Dew Drop, Boulder County), Colorado. The men wear hats and tailored or sack suits, or...
Dew Drop Mine (Boulder County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Frances (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Children.; Mining.; Tailings embankments.; Tipples.; Women.
A man, in a long cloak and hat, and two young girls, in long coats and hats, pose on snow covered tailings at the Dew Drop Mine near Ward in Frances (Camp Francis, Dew Drop, Boulder County), Colorado. A log and wood tipple, mine buildings and a man...
Dew Drop Mine (Boulder County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Frances (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Girls.; Mine buildings.; Miners.; Mining.; Tailings embankments.