Showing 21 - 40 of 164 , query time: 0.02s
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Machinery seen through railings.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Air operated mucking machine. The scoop goes over the mucking machine and empties the ore into the car behind. Miners also used these cars to move mining timbers throughout the mine. The machines and cars ran on rail tracks.
Cover Image
23) Belden
Format:
Image
Looking down the Eagle River toward Belden. Railroad tracks in foreground; Gilman buildings are visible at the top.
Cover Image
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.
Cover Image
25) Belden
Format:
Image
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.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
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.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Ore cars full of ore lined up on the rails, waiting to go to the crushers.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Returning to Gilman for a tour on July 26, 1997. Photo of the William Jude residence, occupied by the Jude family during the late 1930s to the early 1940s.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
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.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Returning to Gilman for a tour on July 26, 1997. From left, Alex and Mary Frances Baldo, Tom Garnett, Charlie Jude, Shirley Wenziker Washburne, Marie and Bill Belina. The white house on the right behind the groups was occupied by Bob and Myra Enzenroth when they were first married.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Installing transformers and connecting terminals to main power line.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
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.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Returning to Gilman for a tour on July 26, 1997. Caddy's house with Marie Belina, two unidentified reporters from the Vail Trail, Bill Belina and Charlie Jude. The Belina's father worked at Gilman and they lived either in Caddy's or Maloit's home.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Unidentified man [Tom Knight?] standing on the surface tram, looking from Belden toward Gilman.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Darrell Barnes in Navy uniform. He was employed by New Jersey Zinc at Gilman after college graduation and enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1943. He served as a radioman for 32 months and then returned to New Jersey Zinc. He became chief accountant at the Gilman office and assisted New Jersey Zinc offices in Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Frank Maloit, holding a hula hoop, conversing with guests at his retirement party from New Jersey Zinc Co. "Mr. and Mrs. Frank Maloit were guests of honor at a cocktail-dinner party in Gilman Saturday, when 115 guests--employees of the New Jersey Zinc Company and other friends gathered to extend their best wishes to the Maloits who are leaving Gilman Nov. 20 to make their home in Grand Junction." -- Leadville Herald Nov. [?] 1958. [Title supplied...
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Platform leading to the soda ash machine at the Gilman Mine. Soda ash (also called washing soda, sodium carbonate Na2CO3) was one of the chemicals used to clean the ore. The large pipe on the left is for ventilation of the soda ash work area.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Dick Sayers (left) and John Skinner adjusting the valves on equipment.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
The new dryer in place for the Gilman mine.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Using a lift to move mine timbers at the Gilman mine. They are in bundles of 9 timbers which fit vertically in the main shaft cage for transport to lower levels. The Minturn bus is in the background.