Old Mining Camp
These types of places are becoming very rare – a 100+ yo mining camp that hasn’t been lost. Of course, it’s well off a beaten path and a long way along rough roads. Still, not much left.
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Looks kinda dry and hot.
And lacking in BIG trees.
But it seems to have an abundance of solace, so there’s that.
Also sometimes dry and cold. 115/-30 as extremes. Better than 300 days per year sunny. When it’s not sunny, it’s nasty. The road is nasty all the time.
The mill’s a bit above 7300 ft; the mine it serves about 9500 ft. Scrub pine and juniper. Jackrabbits, badgers, cougars, coyotes, horses.
My kind of country …
Retarded Comment Of The Day
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From my home town:
“automated, zero-entry showers that can be controlled by smartphone”
Seriously. Is this a thing?
Smartphone?
Dumb operator?
I’ll probably never go back….
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It appears my brother builds similar to what you design: high-end and elaborate. He does the finish woodwork. Me? I can’t pound a nail in straight even with an airgun.
All that money and mono chrome glitter and no bidet in the bathrooms. Mon Dieu!
They should ask for a discount from their decorator.
There are many abandoned copper mines in the U.P. of Michigan’s Keweenaw peninsula. There’s an amazing amount of copper history up there, and one can still find float copper in some of the more wild parts of the Keweenaw. I know one individual who found one recently that weighs just over 1,000 pounds. He had a heck of a time getting it outta the woods.
I’m guessing the big building is the stamping mill, where the ore is crushed to powder. Lifting up and dropping those long vertical steel crushing rods required a substantial frame.
In this particular mill, the ore comes in the top via aerial tramway (just barely visible to the left side of the structure) as bowling ball size rocks; comes out the bottom as a slushy powder. There is still a bucket full of ore on the tramway (unless the cables have finally given way). The milling machinery is all gone. Some of the stamp batteries I’ve seen in museums have timbers 12″ x 24″ x 20′ as a single piece.
I’m thinking of heading out there again this summer to take measurements and perhaps build a model.