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The Quincy Smelter processed copper pulled from the Earth by local mining companies in the Keweenaw Peninsula from 1898-1957. The mines are all gone, and the smelting works have been unused for many years.
Ripley, Michigan, USA.
Smelter Stack built during the 1880s by Hiskey & Walker mining company at the site of White Mountain City, overlooking Wyman Creek. The town had been abandoned a decade earlier. White Mountains. Inyo Co., Calif.
Mineral House and old wooden trestle buried in stamp sand in front of it.
You can see an iron trestle in the background!
Welcome to a photo tour of our September 2016 family vacation!
This trestle is on the Quincy Smelter property, which operated from 1898 to 1971. It's right off the highway and right next to Portage Lake! You can walk around most of it, but a high metal fence prevents you from walking amongst and into most of the main buildings due to doubts about their structural integrity. Hopefully some day the fence can be removed!
If you would like to learn more about the Quincy Smelter, click the link below this paragraph! It will bring you to a site called Copper Country Explorer, one of my favorite websites! Such good information and so fascinating!
www.coppercountryexplorer.com/explorations/industry/quinc...
We traveled from our home state of Wisconsin to the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan and an area waaayyy at the top of the state known as The Copper Country (A.K.A my favorite place in the world).
Major landmarks we visited include the Quincy Smelter, Quincy Mine, Ahmeek Stamp Mill, and Fort Wilkins! Along the way we saw Eagle Harbor Lighthouse and two waterfalls!
The fjord is Reyðarfjörður. The smelter came into operation in 2008. 450 employees produce 940 tons of aluminium daily. Power comes from the Fljotsdalur power station (690MW) which is fed from the Kárahnjúka dam 75km to the west at the north end of the Hálslón lake, which in turn drains from the Vatnajökull.
The Quincy Smelter processed copper pulled from the Earth by local mining companies in the Keweenaw Peninsula from 1898-1957. The mines are all gone, and the smelting works have been unused for many years.
Ripley, Michigan, USA.
WWYLF teens spent time at Old Sturbridge Village, which depicts a rural New England town of the 1830s. They received hands-on experience with crafts such as woodworking, hearth cooking, iron work and more. U.S. Army photo #WWYLF18
We had some smelt last night. At the 7 Seas fish store on West 4th Avenue in the heart of KItsilano, Vancouver BC.
We took the front off of our old family projection TV, mounted it on a frame, and used the power of the sun to smelt a stack of pennies together. The pennies melted in minutes in the afternoon sun. While burning everything we could get our hands on we discussed the use of the lens for hot water and steam powered applications.
more at www.fadetofuture.com
Rockdale Texas Alcoa Aluminum Corporation Of America BUS TOUR April 27 2007 mining power plant smelting atomizer operations Sandow Mine Smelter Crane Trucks
WWYLF teens spent time at Old Sturbridge Village, which depicts a rural New England town of the 1830s. They received hands-on experience with crafts such as woodworking, hearth cooking, iron work and more. U.S. Army photo #WWYLF18
The Quincy Smelter processed copper pulled from the Earth by local mining companies in the Keweenaw Peninsula from 1898-1957. The mines are all gone, and the smelting works have been unused for many years.
Ripley, Michigan, USA.
The Quincy Smelter operated for many decades in the early and mid-1900s, finally closing in 1972. The smelter processed copper ore from a number of nearby mines, exporting millions of tons of copper from the region over its lifetime. It sat derelict for many years before Franklin Township began stabilizing the ruins. Now that it isn't on a Superfund list, it will soon join the Keweenaw National Historic Park, which celebrates the area's rich mining legacy.
Photo taken from a camera suspended from a kite - kite aerial photography, or KAP for short
Following a call from someone who'd witnessed dead fish along Gulliver Creek in Milton, we drove out to the Creek to have a look, on March 30, 2012. What we found were a few schools of Rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax), swimming upstream. What an awe-inspiring sight! At this time of year, these silvery fish swim from Neponset Estuary into less salty contributing creeks, to lay eggs at night. This occurs each spring, around this time. // Smelt populations have declined drastically over the years, due to water pollution and the construction of dams along their migration routes. Thus, the sight of hundreds of these migratory fish swimming up a Neponset stream is heartening! However, it appears that the smelt can't get past the point at which the stream has been enclosed in a tunnel under the road. If that culvert were modified and fish could get past, they could reach more habitat for spawning, upstream. The more smelt that successfully hatch from eggs, the better! // The dead fish along the edge of the brook may have been killed by raccoons searching out the female, egg-laden smelt, and letting go of the male fish, according to Brad Chase. PHOTO BY TOM PALMER. Learn more about the Neponset River Watershed and how you can help to protect it: www.neponset.org.
Smelt Bay Provincial Park, Cortes Island, Discovery Islands, British Columbia, Canada.
BC Travel information at www.BritishColumbia.com