Vulture mine Arizona part 2

Next we come to the Blacksmiths where the drill bits were repointed and sharpened and the jack hammers repaired.









The mine had it's own power station, the main generating set was shiped from Germany in pieces and assembled on site in 1906 so I'm told.















The site has lots of these! I'm told that Cyanide was used to leach gold from the ore as well as to help speed you up the promotion ladder!



And finally a collection of cars and other ods and ends from all over the the mine site .

























Thanks for looking and if you are ever in Arizona this place is well worth a visit!

wow part 2 is even better cheers for that this is great

very good, thanks for posting these, are you going to the Airplane Graveyard while you're there?

KooK. said:

very good, thanks for posting these, are you going to the Airplane Graveyard while you're there?

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We were only there for a week so we did'nt get time on this trip but if the credit card recovers in time I hope to get back over there to see the aircraft boneyard and the ICBM silo near Tucson next October.

Brilliant. Best collection of pix I've seen for a long time. I love the old cars.

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Fantastic.

Excellent stuff. So many delightful remains.

Great pics. I can't believe that relics of the gold rush still remain. But, knowing the size and remoteness of Arizona, I can believe it.

Recognised an old stationary single cylinder steam engine in there. They go back at least 150 years.