View of the abandoned Kennecott Copper Corporation operation at Kennicott, Alaska. The concentration mill is visible on the skyline. From caption: "And here is the mine building---looking almost like a castle the way it sits on the crest of a hill...
View of the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company's operation at Independence Mine, near Hatcher Pass, Alaska. A stack of lumber is visible in the foreground and wooden mine buildings and a tailings pile are visible in the background. Original...
View of the diesel oil tanks at Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company's Independence Mine. Mine buildings and tailings piles are partially visible in the background. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
View of the Kennecott Copper Corporation mining town of Kennicott, Alaska. The concentration mill runs down the hillside on the left of the image and the two buildings in the foreground are probably the general store and the west bunkhouse. Mine...
View of William M. Stoll (left) and his brother, Walter Stoll, at the 700 foot-level portal of Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. The two men are standing in front of the entrance to a drift on the Independence vein, called...
Water serves a variety of purposes in placer mining operations. Primarily, it is used to separate the valuable from the gangue material. Water is also used for the following associated operations; hydraulic stripping, hydraulic elevating, hydraulic...
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Wheels, of a size to dwarf the men standing next to them, support a platform with an apparatus designed for gold mining, perhaps used in hydraulic mining; it appears to be on sandy beach
Wilma Knox leans on a bridge in McCarthy, Alaska, with buildings in the background. From caption: "It was very early morning in McCarthy when Bob got this picture of me leaning over the old bridge at the edge of town. Notice the beautiful white...
Wilma Knox looks at a few playing cards and an empty cigar box left on a table in the recreation hall in the abandoned copper mining town of Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "In the huge recreation hall where the miners went to play cards in the...
Wilma Knox walks down a street in the ghost town of McCarthy, Alaska. From caption: "Bob caught me from behind as I strolled down past what must have been some kind of recreation hall. We looked in the window and there were seats inside and a large...