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Rotary vacuum filter used for removing cyanide solution containing gold from the tailings. Gold mine at Mogollon, New Mexico

Rotary vacuum filter used for removing cyanide solution containing gol...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mountain streams in Ouray County, Colorado run yellow because of the tailings from the gold mills

Mountain streams in Ouray County, Colorado run yellow because of the t...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Mill & Tailings, Iron City (historical), Chaffee County, CO

Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Mill & Tailings, Iron City (historical), C...

Survey number: HAER CO-26-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin...

Significance: Remnants of the first gold lode vein discovered in Colorado. The wood cribbing retaining the tailings is laminated in some places, a previously unused cribbing construction unique at the time to t... More

Pratt Coal & Coke Company, Pratt Mines, Tailings Pile, Bounded by First Street, Avenue G, Third Place, Birmingham Southern Railroad, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Pratt Coal & Coke Company, Pratt Mines, Tailings Pile, Bounded by Firs...

Public domain photograph of mountain range, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Tailings from potassium mining operations, Solikamsk, Russia

Tailings from potassium mining operations, Solikamsk, Russia

Public domain photograph of mountain range, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin...

Significance: Remnants of the first gold lode vein discovered in Colorado. The wood cribbing retaining the tailings is laminated in some places, a previously unused cribbing construction unique at the time to t... More

Placer Mining--Columbia, Tuolumne County - The Tailings of the Columbia Claim

Placer Mining--Columbia, Tuolumne County - The Tailings of the Columbi...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 999. LOT subdivision subject: Placer Mining. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Tailings of copper near Morenci in Greenlee County, Arizona

Tailings of copper near Morenci in Greenlee County, Arizona

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Improvements in concentration and smelting processes enable the Anaconda Copper Mining Company to profitably refine their tailings from operations conducted some twenty years ago. Standard cars are loaded with tailings and shipped to the smelter

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Improvement...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tailings and mill at gold mine. Mogollon, New Mexico

Tailings and mill at gold mine. Mogollon, New Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hoover Dam, Nevada Downstream Waste Tailings, Near the Lower Portal Tunnel Access Road, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Nevada Downstream Waste Tailings, Near the Lower Portal Tu...

Significance: They were an important feature in the construction of Hoover Dam. The tailings resulted from excavation of tunnels for diversion of the Colorado River, for penstock and spillway facilities, for lo... More

Hoover Dam, Nevada Downstream Waste Tailings, Near the Lower Portal Tunnel Access Road, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Nevada Downstream Waste Tailings, Near the Lower Portal Tu...

Significance: They were an important feature in the construction of Hoover Dam. The tailings resulted from excavation of tunnels for diversion of the Colorado River, for penstock and spillway facilities, for lo... More

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin...

Significance: Remnants of the first gold lode vein discovered in Colorado. The wood cribbing retaining the tailings is laminated in some places, a previously unused cribbing construction unique at the time to t... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Abandoned gold mines and mills with piles of tailings in San Juan County, Colorado. The results of excessive cutting of timber can be plainly seen

Abandoned gold mines and mills with piles of tailings in San Juan Coun...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin...

Significance: Remnants of the first gold lode vein discovered in Colorado. The wood cribbing retaining the tailings is laminated in some places, a previously unused cribbing construction unique at the time to t... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Tailings pit of gold mill at Telluride, Colorado

Tailings pit of gold mill at Telluride, Colorado

Public domain photograph of mountains, winter, snow, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Mill & Tailings, Iron City (historical), Chaffee County, CO

Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Mill & Tailings, Iron City (historical), C...

Survey number: HAER CO-26-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Juniata Mill Complex, Tailings Pond, 22.5 miles Southwest of Hawthorne, between Aurora Crater & Aurora Peak, Hawthorne, Mineral County, NV

Juniata Mill Complex, Tailings Pond, 22.5 miles Southwest of Hawthorne...

Survey number: HAER NV-24-K Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mill and office buildings with tailings in foreground. Mogollon, New Mexico

Mill and office buildings with tailings in foreground. Mogollon, New M...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Remains of timber support and tailings of abandoned copper mine at Leopold, New Mexico

Remains of timber support and tailings of abandoned copper mine at Leo...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gold mill and tailings. Mogollon, New Mexico

Gold mill and tailings. Mogollon, New Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin...

Significance: Remnants of the first gold lode vein discovered in Colorado. The wood cribbing retaining the tailings is laminated in some places, a previously unused cribbing construction unique at the time to t... More

Tailing pit of active gold mine in the valley of the Animas River, San Juan County, Colorado. Ranchers and farmers who want to use water for irrigation in the lower valley have always attempted to force the mine and mill operators to keep the tailings from polluting the streams; however, without much success

Tailing pit of active gold mine in the valley of the Animas River, San...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin...

Significance: Remnants of the first gold lode vein discovered in Colorado. The wood cribbing retaining the tailings is laminated in some places, a previously unused cribbing construction unique at the time to t... More

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin...

Significance: Remnants of the first gold lode vein discovered in Colorado. The wood cribbing retaining the tailings is laminated in some places, a previously unused cribbing construction unique at the time to t... More

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin...

Significance: Remnants of the first gold lode vein discovered in Colorado. The wood cribbing retaining the tailings is laminated in some places, a previously unused cribbing construction unique at the time to t... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Juniata Mill Complex, Tailings Pond, 22.5 miles Southwest of Hawthorne, between Aurora Crater & Aurora Peak, Hawthorne, Mineral County, NV

Juniata Mill Complex, Tailings Pond, 22.5 miles Southwest of Hawthorne...

Survey number: HAER NV-24-K Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Belt conveyor which drops the tailings onto pile in the valley below. Mill at Mogollon, New Mexico

Belt conveyor which drops the tailings onto pile in the valley below. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a large wheel. Great Depression Era, New Mexico

A black and white photo of a large wheel. Great Depression Era, New Me...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a large wheel. Great Depression Era, New Mexico

A black and white photo of a large wheel. Great Depression Era, New Me...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Tailings pit and outbuildings at Camp Bird gold mine and mill. Camp Bird, Colorado

Tailings pit and outbuildings at Camp Bird gold mine and mill. Camp Bi...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Tailings pit at Camp Bird gold mine and mill. Ouray County, Colorado

Tailings pit at Camp Bird gold mine and mill. Ouray County, Colorado

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin...

Significance: Remnants of the first gold lode vein discovered in Colorado. The wood cribbing retaining the tailings is laminated in some places, a previously unused cribbing construction unique at the time to t... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Tailings pit of gold mill at Telluride, Colorado

Tailings pit of gold mill at Telluride, Colorado

Public domain photograph of mountains, winter, snow, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a machine in a factory. Great Depression Era, New Mexico

A black and white photo of a machine in a factory. Great Depression Er...

Public domain photograph of Mexico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Improvements in concentration and smelting processes enable the Anaconda Copper Mining Company to profitably refine their tailings from operations conducted some twenty years ago. Standard cars are loaded with tailings and shipped to the smelter

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Improvement...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin...

Significance: Remnants of the first gold lode vein discovered in Colorado. The wood cribbing retaining the tailings is laminated in some places, a previously unused cribbing construction unique at the time to t... More

Pratt Coal & Coke Company, Pratt Mines, Tailings Pile, Bounded by First Street, Avenue G, Third Place, Birmingham Southern Railroad, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Pratt Coal & Coke Company, Pratt Mines, Tailings Pile, Bounded by Firs...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a dry desert landscape, sand, sky, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin...

Significance: Remnants of the first gold lode vein discovered in Colorado. The wood cribbing retaining the tailings is laminated in some places, a previously unused cribbing construction unique at the time to t... More

Cliff Mine, Mine Tailings Pile, Centennial Ridge, Medicine Bow National Forest, Centennial, Albany County, WY

Cliff Mine, Mine Tailings Pile, Centennial Ridge, Medicine Bow Nationa...

Significance: This site is associated with events that have made significant contributions to the broad patterns of our history, i.e., early 20th century mining for precious metals in Wyoming and the western Un... More

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin...

Significance: Remnants of the first gold lode vein discovered in Colorado. The wood cribbing retaining the tailings is laminated in some places, a previously unused cribbing construction unique at the time to t... More

Tailings at abandoned copper mine at Leopold, New Mexico

Tailings at abandoned copper mine at Leopold, New Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Improvements in concentration and smelting processes enable the Anaconda Copper Mining Company to profitably refine their tailings from operations conducted some twenty years ago. Standard cars are loaded with tailings and shipped to the smelter

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Improvement...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a miner, coal mine, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Juniata Mill Complex, Tailings Pond, 22.5 miles Southwest of Hawthorne, between Aurora Crater & Aurora Peak, Hawthorne, Mineral County, NV

Juniata Mill Complex, Tailings Pond, 22.5 miles Southwest of Hawthorne...

Survey number: HAER NV-24-K Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Stream of tailings from large active gold mill in San Juan County, Colorado

Stream of tailings from large active gold mill in San Juan County, Col...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Improvements in concentration and smelting processes enable the Anaconda Copper Mining Company to profitably refine their tailings from operations conducted some twenty years ago. Standard cars are loaded with tailings and shipped to the smelter

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Improvement...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Hydraulic Mining--The Dump and Tailings

Hydraulic Mining--The Dump and Tailings

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 806. LOT subdivision subject: Placer Mining. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More