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Quincy Mining Company - Underground Scenes: Conveyances For Hoisting Men, Rock and Water |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, |
View of Man Engine Rods and Shaft. Scanned: September 25, 2008 |
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Quincy Mining Company - Underground Scenes: Conveyances For Hoisting Men, Rock and Water |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, , |
Drawing of "Skip-Gate and Chute". Shows chute leading from underground storage bin and the manner of dropping the skip's rear wheels in order to tip the mouth of the skip up, so that it can be filled to capacity more readily. Scanned: September 25, 2008 |
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Quincy Mining Company - Underground Scenes: Conveyances For Hoisting Men, Rock and Water |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, , |
"Proposed loading pocket for ten ton skip, Nov. 29, 1916." Scanned: September 25, 2008 |
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Quincy Mining Company - Underground Scenes: Conveyances For Hoisting Men, Rock and Water |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, , |
Rock skip at QMC location; large wheel is not original. Scanned: September 25, 2008 |
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Quincy Mining Company - Underground Scenes: Conveyances For Hoisting Men, Rock and Water |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, , |
Water skip, largely wooden construction, used for bailing water from mine. Water skips had 1300-1600 gallon capacity. Scanned: September 25, 2008 |
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Quincy Mining Company - Underground Scenes: Conveyances For Hoisting Men, Rock and Water |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, |
Underground view showing electric haulage locomotive in a drift. Foot wall on left; hanging wall on right. C. 1920 Scanned: September 25, 2008 |
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Quincy Mining Company - Underground Scenes: Conveyances For Hoisting Men, Rock and Water |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, |
Underground view of skip loading. Capt. Maunder on left. Scanned: September 25, 2008 |
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Quincy Mining Company - Underground Scenes: Conveyances For Hoisting Men, Rock and Water |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, |
Underground view showing miners cutting mass copper by hand. Scanned: September 25, 2008 |
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Quincy Mining Company - Underground Scenes: Conveyances For Hoisting Men, Rock and Water |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, |
Underground view of miner perched on mass copper. Note the candle and compressed air line. Scanned: September 25, 2008 |
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Quincy Mining Company - U.S. Bureau of Mines Photographs from 1927 fire and collapse. |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Accidents, Fires |
Emergency crew (Fire fighters) ready to descend in man car at No. 6 shaft. Note rock skip suspended out of the way. Scanned: September 25, 2008 |