Mining town

Old Mines outside of Creede CO

Gilman is an abandoned mining town in Eagle County, Colorado founded in 1886 during the Colorado Silver Boom. Scattered mining operations sprouted along Battle Mountain…

Go down in history - 3 feet beneath the surface of the earth in a once abandoned, but now restored hard coal mine. See where and how men and boys worked to heat a nation and fuel the conversion of our nation's economy from agriculture to industry.

Learn how the residents of Silverton, Colorado, beat the odds to rescue a long-abandoned mining town called Animas Forks.

I sat down with the owner and cultivator of Treasure House Relics project recently, to discuss mining in Utah. I wanted to know how he got interested in…

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Abandoned Burro Schmidt’s Tunnel, Randsburg, California -- Ghost town / old mining town in Kern County. www.ghosttowns.com/states/ca/randsburg.html (Henry Schmidt found gold near Garlock. The route into the backcountry was a dry wash that could only be navigated on foot or by burro. Purchasing two animals, which he named Jack and Jenny, he began prospecting. The clapboard hovel was plastered from floor to ceiling with old magazines from the 1910s through the 1940s. Most of Schmidt’s pots…

Original Caption: Closeup of an Old Coal Company Mining Town of Red Ash Virginia, near Richards in the Southwestern Part of the State. This Is a Classic Picture of a Company Town with a Railroad in the Valley Flanked by Miners' Homes. These Houses Are Two Family Dwellings the Road Is Made of Red Dog, a Mining Byproduct 04/1974 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-13880 Photographer: Corn, Jack, 1929- Subjects: Richlands (Tazewell county, Virginia, United States) inhabited place…

Photo about an old abandoned gold mine. Image of trees, boarded, historic - 829442

Few people know about this abandoned mine hiding out in the middle of nowhere. This place is seriously spooky.

In eastern Kentucky, former coal mining towns are plotting how to reinvent themselves

Underground mining village by RogierB

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Today at our Mammoth Lakes workshop we visited Bodie, an awesome and much visited ghost town. View Large View the entire Mammoth Lakes Set View the Entire - Farms, Barns, and Old Stuff Set View my - Most Interesting according to Flickr

Ian Guthrie now lives in Ottawa, in Canada, but he grew up in Ferryhill more than 60 years ago, Inspired by Memories 58, he recalls “a golden…

Victor, Colorado

Victor, Colorado, was part of one of the most important gold mining centers in the world in the 1890s and early 1900s. But as the ore dwindled, the...