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82) Flotation area
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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.
83) Belden
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New Jersey Zinc Co. mill and mining facility in Belden (Eagle River Canyon), August 1998. Both the mine and the railroad were out of operation by then. The surface tram is visible going up the incline of the cliff at right midground.
85) Adjusting valves
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Dick Sayers (left) and John Skinner discussing the adjustments to equipment. A good view of the headlamp attachment to the battery pack carried on one's belt.
86) Rail ore cars
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Ore cars full of ore lined up on the rails, waiting to go to the crushers.
87) Gilman
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Gilman taken from the other side of the Eagle River Canyon. The main mine shaft is at right of center.
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Looking across the railroad tracks at Belden, the tram house is white, midground; the surface tram cable is running up the cliff on the right. Cribbing visible at center.
89) Belden
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Facilities at Belden, some abandoned. Gilman is visible at the top of the cliff. Mine buildings are at right, midfield.
90) Gilman dump
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Verso: "Mom [Sophie Knight] and Clara Clark on Gilman dump"
"I can't say Gilman was the cleanest town in the county. There was no county landfill or garbage trucks. The town of Gilman picked up the garbage and hauled it over to a dump site back of the carpenter shop that ran all the way from the top of the mountain down throught the side of the mountain clear to the river below. There was everything dumped over the side of the hill and down the slope....
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Aerial photograph taken by Mayo Lanning on February 3, 1998, showing downtown Gilman.
92) Repair shop
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More steel milling machiner in the repair shop. The lathe at center is approximately 20 feet long.
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Gilman taken from U.S. Highway 24 which curves around and continues at the upper left. The main shaft of the mine is at the far left.
94) Stamp Mill
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MacDonald Knight standing at the stamp mill house at Cross Creek in 1940.
Verso: "stamp mill house Cross Creek 1940;" stamp: "Empire Zinc Div, the New Jersey Zinc Co., Gilman, Colorado"
95) Gilman housing
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Aerial photograph taken by Mayo Lanning on February 3, 1998. Housing for workers at the Gilman Mine is shown in the center of the photograph. The Lanning family lived in the center of the top row of houses, just below Hwy 24, which curves into the background. Water tanks are visible adjacent to Hwy 24.
96) Gilman
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Main entrance to Gilman, a company town of New Jersey Zinc Co., from Highway 24.
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Installing transformers and connecting terminals to main power line.
99) Zinc dryer
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The dryer building for zinc is at the far right. The zinc slurry would be heated and dried, leaving a very fine zinc powder. The powder was shipped in sealed box cars as it was so fine it would blow away in an open car. The rail line for shipping runs through the Eagle River Canyon (Belden area) so the final products for shipping were finished at this level.
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Gilman taken from a mountainside perspective. U.S. Highway 24 is at the upper left; the main entrance to Gilman from Hwy 24 is below it.
