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Electrically activated shaft weights in the mill section at Gilman Mine.
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O.A. McClain, left, watches as Jessie Belt shears bar steel for timber truck reinforcements. The extra stock of bar steel is in the backgound.
103) Signal pulleys
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Signal pulleys to let the hoistman, who operated the cage, know when to raise or lower the cage.
104) Soda ash machine
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Inside the mill at the Gilman Mine. Chemicals are stored in pallets in the left forefront and a battery operated fork lift is parked in the center background. The soda ash mixing machine
area is at the top of the platform. 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.
105) Soda ash machine
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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.
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Part of the soda ash mixing machine at the Gilman Mine. Soda ash was used in processing the ore along with copper sulfate. An electric motor to power the mixer sets atop the mixing
bucket.
107) Steam control valves
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Steam control valves at the mill in Belden. These were located between the dryer and the loading tippel.
108) Steam controls
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Steam room controls located between the dryer building and loading tippel at Belden.
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A surface tram used to move ore and equipment is on the left coming into Belden from Gilman at the top. Loading tippel, steam room and the dryer buildings are pictured in the lower right.
110) Tamping dynamite
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Miner's helper assisting with tamping dynamite prior to blasting the exposed rock face. Both miners have the battery powered safety lights connected by the long cord to a pouch on their waists.
111) Tamping dynamite
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Tamping in dynamite prior to blasting a section at Gilman. Holes that have been prepared are shown with electrical connections to the blasting caps and the dynamite. Joe Fear prepared the blasting caps on the surface. Bottom series of holes were detonated first to keep the miners from having to work so much loose debris - a true demonstration of the principle of gravity.
112) Timber cars
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Timbers on timber cars ready for rail transfer to various locations in the mine. Steve Rich is in the background left.
113) Timber truck
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John Mignone (left) and Jesse Belt preparing a completely reconditioned timber truck for return to service in the mine. Sufficient timber and timber trucks were vital to the operation of the mine.
114) Timber truck
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John Mignone (left) and Jesse Belt examining a reconditioned timber truck at the Gilman mine.
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Tom Reed repairing a foot valve for one of the pumps which pumped water from the mine. The ever present miner's lunch bucket is in the background on the floor. Most miners used the same lunch bucket for many years until it became too dented to close. It was often hammered back or bent back into shape.
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Steve Rich unloading mining timber at the bottom of the main shaft, level 16. The mining timbers were loaded vertically by the surface crew to fit the main cage that transported them down into the mine. A timber truck can be seen in the foreground and a "stern" warning sign is in the background.
118) Used transformers
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Transformers that were replaced being hauled by Weicker at Gilman.
119) Weicker crane
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Weicker crane being "blocked" during transformer unloading operations at the Gilman power plant. Smiling onlookers at right.
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Moving the zinc dryer from a railroad car into the dryer building at Belden. A wall section approximately 60 feet long has been removed in the dryer building to move this equipment
into the facility.
