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Electrical transformers, prior to unloading at Gilman, on a Weicker transfer and storage truck.
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Returning to Gilman for a tour on July 26, 1997. Ellie (Elinora Williams) Beck [Mrs. Theodore] and Carol (Ginther) Beck [Mrs. Russell] chatting.
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Emmet Flaherty preparing to pre-heat two blank pieces of hollow drill steel. In the background is an automatic oil-fired forge which will bring these blanks to an exact temperature for forging. From the hollow drill blanks, finished pieces of lugged steel are formed for use in rock drills.
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Sign reads:
Eagle Mine
The New Jersey Zinc Company
Horsehead brand zinc products
Largest Underground Mill in US.
Ores discovered in 1879
Largest zinc mine in Colorado
Gilman > 1/2 mile Elev 9000' Pop:300
45) Examining ore
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Dick Sayers (left) and John Skinner, examining ore in the ore cars. Both men are wearing headlamps.
46) Examining ore
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Dick Sayers (left) and John Skinner, closely examining ore in the ore cars. Both men are wearing headlamps.
49) 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.
50) 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.
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Flotation area for the zinc ore. Water valves are shown at the bottom of the table.
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Flotation stations in the zinc section of the mill at Gilman. The flotation stations were part of the process of refining the zinc ore.
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Closeup of the flume used to dump "muck' onto the conveyor. This conveyor carried the ore to a series of crushing machines. Conveyors were used extensively in the mine. [related to photo 2007.008.090]
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Ida Doyle (far left), Mary Duffy and Ed Duffy at Maloit Park........others are unidentified.
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Fork lift loading soda ash onto a platform for use in the soda ash machine. The fork lift was battery operated.
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Francis Maloit on the "big slide" at Maloit Park, offering a push to a young man.
58) Frank Maloit
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Studio portrait of Frank Maloit, superintendent of the Gilman Mine beginning in 1922. Maloit Park in Minturn is named after Mr. Maloit.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Frank Maloit and an executive from the New Jersey Zinc Co., standing in the snow at Gilman, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Frank Maloit retirement party from New Jersey Zinc Co. Frank is in the center wearing a boutonniere.
"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.
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