Mines
Showing
81 - 100
of 354
, query time: 0.01s
Format:
Image
Eagle Mine (New Jersey Zinc Co.) showing the rail access at Belden, looking down. Depot structures and mine buildings visible at the bottom of the canyon. The town of Gilman would be at the top of the escarpment.
Format:
Image
"Eagle River Canon, Colo., D. & R. G. Ry." Tinted photo postcard shows mine cribbing and mine buildings above Belden with the rail tracks and Eagle River at the bottom.
Verso: No. C8708 Published by The Colorado News Company, Denver, Colo., Dresden-Leipzig-Berlin. Trademark [Corson #632] for American News Co., New York, NY, Litho-chrome process.
Format:
Image
Looking down at the Eagle River in Eagle Canyon, at a portion of the railroad tracks at Belden.
Format:
Image
Verso of the Colortone postcard of the Eagle River Canyon and Gilman, sent to Pvt. Tom Fish, U.S. Army, from his mother.
Caption: "2307--Eagle River Canon Empire Zinc Mine, and Gilman as seen from Battle Mountain Highway, Colorado."
"C.T. Art-Colortone," Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, Colo.
The postcard is from the collection of William W. Burnett and was used as the cover photo for the 2005 printing of his book, "The Eagle on Battle Mountain at...
Format:
Image
Colortone postcard of the Eagle River Canyon and Gilman, sent to Pvt. Tom Fish, U.S. Army, from his mother.
Caption: "2307--Eagle River Canon Empire Zinc Mine, and Gilman as seen from Battle Mountain Highway, Colorado."
"C.T. Art-Colortone," Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, Colo.
The postcard is from the collection of William W. Burnett and was used as the cover photo for the 2005 printing of his book, "The Eagle on Battle Mountain at Gilman, Colorado...
Format:
Image
Ed Koch starting the repair and reconditioning of a rocker dump mine car. This mine car has become unserviceable since the bottom and end are worn through. The car will receive new steel section plates and be completely reconditioned.
Format:
Image
Ed Koch starting the repair and reconditioning of a rocker dump mine car. This mine car has become unserviceable since the bottom and end are worn through. The car will receive new steel section plates and be completely reconditioned.
Format:
Image
Electrical transformers, prior to unloading at Gilman, on a Weicker transfer and storage truck.
89) Elmer Ottens
Format:
Image
Elmer Ottens behind the wheel of his RV, visiting friends in Boulder, Colorado. Elmer was an electrician with the New Jersey Zinc Co., first in New Jersy and then at Gilman, Colorado. He retired in 1988. He was married to Virginia Lewis, daughter of Pearl Henderson, of Red Cliff.
Format:
Image
Emmet Flaherty preparing to pre-heat two blank pieces of hollow drill steel. In the background is an automatic oil-fired forge which will bring these blanks to an exact temperature for forging. From the hollow drill blanks, finished pieces of lugged steel are formed for use in rock drills.
91) Examining ore
Format:
Image
Dick Sayers (left) and John Skinner, examining ore in the ore cars. Both men are wearing headlamps.
92) Examining ore
Format:
Image
Dick Sayers (left) and John Skinner, closely examining ore in the ore cars. Both men are wearing headlamps.
Format:
Image
"Five o'clock at Gilman, Colorado." The company town of New Jersey Zinc in the afternoon sunlight. The main shaft entrance, the first building upon entering the town, is at the center of the photo; stacked mine timbers are directly to the right of the main shaft.
Format:
Image
Hap Fletcher pushing snow with a dozer after a snow slide near Belden.
97) Flotation area
Format:
Image
Floation area for the zinc ore at Gilman. Flotation tables were used to seperate the zinc and lead from the waste in the mining process. Further processing separated the lead and the zinc.
98) Flotation area
Format:
Image
Floation area for the zinc ore at Gilman. Flotation tables were used to seperate the zinc and lead from the waste in the mining process. Further processing separated the lead and the zinc.
Format:
Image
Flotation area for the zinc ore. Water valves are shown at the bottom of the table.
100) Flotation stations
Format:
Image
Flotation stations in the zinc section of the mill at Gilman. The flotation stations were part of the process of refining the zinc ore.
