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These five photos complete my documentation of Granite, Montana.
This ghost town has a few mine structures left from the 1890's.
This gorgeous piece was created with geniune turquoise nuggets that I imported myself in a painstaking search to match the original necklace’s precise shade of unique green.
Holiday Special $90
After the holiday season this necklace will retail regularly for $135
etsy.com/shop/RubyMines
rubymines.blogspot.com
Megan Fox Turquoise Necklace - My Inspired Piece. Double Stranded necklace made with real turquoise nuggets turquoise nuggets. Extender chain clasp.
This gorgeous piece was created with geniune turquoise nuggets that I imported myself in a painstaking search to match the original necklace’s precise shade of unique green.
Holiday Special $90
After the holiday season this necklace will retail regularly for $135
etsy.com/shop/RubyMines
rubymines.blogspot.com
Megan Fox Turquoise Necklace - My Inspired Piece. Double Stranded necklace made with real turquoise nuggets turquoise nuggets. Extender chain clasp.
These ruins are at the Ruby Mine in Granite, Montana. The structure of stacked logs on the left has a very serious lean - it is not a problem with camera distortion.
This was a 9 bed hospital that was staffed by Dr Julius H. Woodward and his wife, Pauline, the hospital nurse. He arrived in 1930 and was a well respected, loved, knowledgeable and compassionate physician who perforned surgery, cared for the sick, delivered babies, set broken bones and made house calls.
The track was impassable beyond the wooden arch, so I don't know where it leads. This appears to be a mine cart track leading from the Ruby Mill up into a mountain.
This gorgeous piece was created with geniune turquoise nuggets that I imported myself in a painstaking search to match the original necklace’s precise shade of unique green.
Holiday Special $90
After the holiday season this necklace will retail regularly for $135
etsy.com/shop/RubyMines
rubymines.blogspot.com
Megan Fox Turquoise Necklace - My Inspired Piece. Double Stranded necklace made with real turquoise nuggets turquoise nuggets. Extender chain clasp.
This gorgeous piece was created with geniune turquoise nuggets that I imported myself in a painstaking search to match the original necklace’s precise shade of unique green.
Holiday Special $90
After the holiday season this necklace will retail regularly for $135
etsy.com/shop/RubyMines
rubymines.blogspot.com
Megan Fox Turquoise Necklace - My Inspired Piece. Double Stranded necklace made with real turquoise nuggets turquoise nuggets. Extender chain clasp.
This gorgeous piece was created with geniune turquoise nuggets that I imported myself in a painstaking search to match the original necklace’s precise shade of unique green.
Holiday Special $90
After the holiday season this necklace will retail regularly for $135
etsy.com/shop/RubyMines
rubymines.blogspot.com
Megan Fox Turquoise Necklace - My Inspired Piece. Double Stranded necklace made with real turquoise nuggets turquoise nuggets. Extender chain clasp.
This gorgeous piece was created with geniune turquoise nuggets that I imported myself in a painstaking search to match the original necklace’s precise shade of unique green.
Holiday Special $90
After the holiday season this necklace will retail regularly for $135
etsy.com/shop/RubyMines
rubymines.blogspot.com
Megan Fox Turquoise Necklace - My Inspired Piece. Double Stranded necklace made with real turquoise nuggets turquoise nuggets. Extender chain clasp.
This gorgeous piece was created with geniune turquoise nuggets that I imported myself in a painstaking search to match the original necklace’s precise shade of unique green.
Holiday Special $90
After the holiday season this necklace will retail regularly for $135
etsy.com/shop/RubyMines
rubymines.blogspot.com
Megan Fox Turquoise Necklace - My Inspired Piece. Double Stranded necklace made with real turquoise nuggets turquoise nuggets. Extender chain clasp.
We were told about an abandoned gold mine that sounded like an interesting place to visit.
This was typical of the road and countryside. Low shrubs and spinifex, hills.
I remember standing at the entrance to the mine and looking out across the vast plains to the horizon. Not a human or dwelling to be seen, and only the sound of birds in the distance!
From this structure a vertical shaft drops some 750 feet into the mine and connects with the horizontal workings at various levels that connect to the ore bodies.. A cage carried miners down into the dark mine for an 8 hour shift.
On the surface above the shaft stands a building known as the headframe (or winding tower, poppet head or pit head). This headframe used sheave wheel and belt (with the hoist motor mounted on the ground). The headframe contains bins for storing ore being transferred to the processing facility. This headframe was used to move both miners and ore in the mine.
This is a photo of the maze of tunnels that can be seen after the collapse of the roof of the shaft. The wood in the center is 2X4's which were ladders. Now the tunnels are used by Mexican Free-tailed Bats in the summer when about a half a million bats fly out of these passages at dusk.
Grover Duff, wife Lundy and daughter Kathleen (born here) lived in this house. Grover was the mine superintendent and his wife was the anesthesiologist at the hospital.
Granite Ghost Town in Summer, Granite County, Montana
Silver was first discovered in the area around Granite in 1865. The Granite mine, "Ruby Shaft," were discovered in 1872. During the course of silver mining at Granite, $40 million dollars worth of silver was removed, making it the "richest silver mine on earth." The mine was closed after the silver panic of 1893.
The site pictured is what remains of the company town that was built by the Granite Mining Company around the Ruby Shaft. These ruins and the ruins of the mining operation are located approximately four miles due north of present day Philipsburg, MT
The builiding pictured is what remains of the Miner's Union Hall, a three story building that was built in 1890 at a cost of $23,000. The first floor was constructed of native Granite. The top two stories were made of brick. The top floor was used for meetings by clubs and "secret order." The second floor held union offices, a hall with an eighteen foot ceiling and a special floor made of maple, specifically for dancing. The second floor could hold 500 people for concerts and other functions. The first floor featured billiards and card tables.
This was a 9 bed hospital that was staffed by Dr Julius H. Woodward and his wife, Pauline, the hospital nurse. He arrived in 1930 and was a well respected, loved, knowledgeable and compassionate physician who perforned surgery, cared for the sick, delivered babies, set broken bones and made house calls.
Granite Ghost Town in Summer, Granite County, Montana
Silver was first discovered in the area around Granite in 1865. The Granite mine, "Ruby Shaft," was discovered in 1872. During the course of silver mining at Granite, $40 million dollars worth of silver was removed, making it the "richest silver mine on earth." The mine was closed after the silver panic of 1893.
The site pictured is the east end of what remains of two massive buildings that covered the face of these rock walls and contained 70 stamp mills that crushed ore from the Ruby shaft. After crushing, the ore was sent down the hill for the silver to be separated from the base metal by amalgamation with mercury. The stamp mills worked six days a week at the height of production.These ruins and the ruins of the mining operation are located
Granite was a company town, built by the Granite Mountain Mining Company. It is located approximately four miles due north of present day Philipsburg, MT.
ranite Ghost Town in Summer, Granite County, Montana
Silver was first discovered in the area around Granite in 1865. The Granite mine, "Ruby Shaft," was discovered in 1872. During the course of silver mining at Granite, $40 million dollars worth of silver was removed, making it the "richest silver mine on earth." The mine was closed after the silver panic of 1893.
The site pictured is the east end of what remains of two massive buildings that covered the face of these rock walls and contained 70 stamp mills that crushed ore from the Ruby shaft. After crushing, the ore was sent down the hill for the silver to be separated from the base metal by amalgamation with mercury. The stamp mills worked six days a week at the height of production.These ruins and the ruins of the mining operation are located
Granite was a company town, built by the Granite Mountain Mining Company. It is located approximately four miles due north of present day Philipsburg, MT.
Granite Ghost Town in Summer, Granite County, Montana
Silver was first discovered in the area around Granite in 1865. The Granite mine, "Ruby Shaft," was discovered in 1872. During the course of silver mining at Granite, $40 million dollars worth of silver was removed, making it the "richest silver mine on earth." The mine was closed after the silver panic of 1893.
The site pictured is the east end of what remains of two massive buildings that covered the face of these rock walls and contained 70 stamp mills that crushed ore from the Ruby shaft. After crushing, the ore was sent down the hill for the silver to be separated from the base metal by amalgamation with mercury. The stamp mills worked six days a week at the height of production.These ruins and the ruins of the mining operation are located
Granite was a company town, built by the Granite Mountain Mining Company. It is located approximately four miles due north of present day Philipsburg, MT.
Granite Ghost Town in Summer, Granite County, Montana
Silver was first discovered in the area around Granite in 1865. The Granite mine, "Ruby Shaft," was discovered in 1872. During the course of silver mining at Granite, $40 million dollars worth of silver was removed, making it the "richest silver mine on earth." The mine was closed after the silver panic of 1893.
The site pictured is the east end of what remains of two massive buildings that covered the face of these rock walls and contained 70 stamp mills that crushed ore from the Ruby shaft. After crushing, the ore was sent down the hill for the silver to be separated from the base metal by amalgamation with mercury. The stamp mills worked six days a week at the height of production.These ruins and the ruins of the mining operation are located
Granite was a company town, built by the Granite Mountain Mining Company. It is located approximately four miles due north of present day Philipsburg, MT.
Granite Ghost Town in Summer, Granite County, Montana
Silver was first discovered in the area around Granite in 1865. The Granite mine, "Ruby Shaft," was discovered in 1872. During the course of silver mining at Granite, $40 million dollars worth of silver was removed, making it the "richest silver mine on earth." The mine was closed after the silver panic of 1893.
The site pictured is the east end of what remains of two massive buildings that covered the face of these rock walls and contained 70 stamp mills that crushed ore from the Ruby shaft. After crushing, the ore was sent down the hill for the silver to be separated from the base metal by amalgamation with mercury. The stamp mills worked six days a week at the height of production.These ruins and the ruins of the mining operation are located
Granite was a company town, built by the Granite Mountain Mining Company. It is located approximately four miles due north of present day Philipsburg, MT.
Granite Ghost Town in Summer, Granite County, Montana
Silver was first discovered in the area around Granite in 1865. The Granite mine, "Ruby Shaft," were discovered in 1872. During the course of silver mining at Granite, $40 million dollars worth of silver was removed, making it the "richest silver mine on earth." The mine was closed after the silver panic of 1893.
The site pictured is what remains of the company town that was built by the Granite Mining Company around the Ruby Shaft. These ruins and the ruins of the mining operation are located approximately four miles due north of present day Philipsburg, MT
The builiding pictured is what remains of the Miner's Union Hall, a three story building that was built in 1890 at a cost of $23,000. The first floor was constructed of native Granite. The top two stories were made of brick. The top floor was used for meetings by clubs and "secret order." The second floor held union offices, a hall with an eighteen foot ceiling and a special floor made of maple, specifically for dancing. The second floor could hold 500 people for concerts and other functions. The first floor featured billiards and card tables.
ranite Ghost Town in Summer, Granite County, Montana
Silver was first discovered in the area around Granite in 1865. The Granite mine, "Ruby Shaft," was discovered in 1872. During the course of silver mining at Granite, $40 million dollars worth of silver was removed, making it the "richest silver mine on earth." The mine was closed after the silver panic of 1893.
The site pictured is the east end of what remains of two massive buildings that covered the face of these rock walls and contained 70 stamp mills that crushed ore from the Ruby shaft. After crushing, the ore was sent down the hill for the silver to be separated from the base metal by amalgamation with mercury. The stamp mills worked six days a week at the height of production.These ruins and the ruins of the mining operation are located
Granite was a company town, built by the Granite Mountain Mining Company. It is located approximately four miles due north of present day Philipsburg, MT.
Grades 1 through 8. The shouth room, in foreground, is adobe and built in 1916-17. It is currently undergoing restoration. Peak enrollemnt was 150 children in 1936.
Granite Ghost Town in Summer, Granite County, Montana
Silver was first discovered in the area around Granite in 1865. The Granite mine, "Ruby Shaft," were discovered in 1872. During the course of silver mining at Granite, $40 million dollars worth of silver was removed, making it the "richest silver mine on earth." The mine was closed after the silver panic of 1893.
The site pictured is the east end of what remains of two massive buildings that covered the face of these rock walls and contained 70 stamp mills that crushed ore from the Ruby shaft. After crushing, the ore was sent down the hill for the silver to be separated from the base metal by amalgamation with mercury. The stamp mills worked six days a week at the height of production.These ruins and the ruins of the mining operation are located
Granite was a company town, built by the Granite Mountain Mining Company. It is located approximately four miles due north of present day Philipsburg, MT.
Granite Ghost Town in Summer, Granite County, Montana
Silver was first discovered in the area around Granite in 1865. The Granite mine, "Ruby Shaft," were discovered in 1872. During the course of silver mining at Granite, $40 million dollars worth of silver was removed, making it the "richest silver mine on earth." The mine was closed after the silver panic of 1893.
The site pictured is what remains of the company town that was built by the Granite Mining Company around the Ruby Shaft. These ruins and the ruins of the mining operation are located approximately four miles due north of present day Philipsburg, MT.