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Copper Mines and Mining - Franklin Mining Co.

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Transportation, Railroads, Manpower, Labor Companies - Franklin Mining Company [Image of mining operation at the Franklin site.]

Scanned: July 30, 2009


Quincy Mining Company

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Persons Last piece of a 300 ton mass of copper 4,000 feet down No. 2 Shaft Quincy. Mr. William Rule in white coat. [Group of miners sit on the mass of copper with their mining equipment.]

Scanned: June 5, 2006


Mining - Underground Scene - Morris Mine

Metal Trade, Iron Industry and Trade, Iron Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, A tugger-scraper system on the 7th level of CCI's Morris Mine in the 1920s. The electrically powered drum that made up the tugger part of the combination is on the left; the scraper that the tugger's cables pulled back and forth is on the lower right. The scraper would move ore from the point where it was blasted loose to a vertically situated passage (called a raise), which led to the lower level. Ore fell by gravity into ore cars on this level for transportation to a hoisting shaft. [Underground image of two miners.]

Scanned: March 27, 2009


Copper Mines - Ahmeek

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Ahmeek #2. [Two men attempt to break up a large piece of ore.]

Scanned: September 9, 2009


Copper Mines - Ahmeek

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Ahmeek #4. [Underground photo of a miner who may deal with explosives.]

Scanned: September 9, 2009


Copper Mines - Ahmeek

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Ahmeek #3 [Underground photo of two miners taking a lunch break. Initials of other miners who have been there are written on the rock wall behind them.]

Scanned: September 9, 2009


Copper Mines - Ahmeek

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Ahmeek #3 [Underground photo of two miners.]

Scanned: September 9, 2009


Copper Mines - Ahmeek

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Ahmeek #4. [Underground photo of four smiling miners working on rails.]

Scanned: September 9, 2009


Copper Mines - Ahmeek

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Ahmeek #3. [Underground photo of two miners.]

Scanned: September 9, 2009


Copper Mines - Ahmeek

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Miners, Copper Miners Ahmeek [Underground photo of a miner standing next to a crate of explosives.]

Scanned: September 9, 2009