Portal of tunnel at the Rescue Mine near Warren in Idaho County, Idaho.This photo shows twelve miners and one dog posed at the mine entrance. Notice the variety of work clothing and hats. Mine timbers for shoring up the underground workings lie in...
Washing out gold using hydraulic mining equipment in the Salmon River Country, Lemhi County, Idaho. Hydraulic mining was done alongside mountains and riverbank.
Bucketline, bucket ladder and front gantry of close connected bucketline dredge operated near Idaho City, Idaho. Note the size of the dredge buckets is comparison to the man in the foreground. The 15 cubic foot dredge was owned and operated...
Pre -1950s truck parked next to the mine entrance, entry is covered by a tin roofed shed built into solid rock. Mining equipment is strewn about the entrance to the mine.
Two miners working underground. Light is provided by carbide lamps attached to the miners hats. Miner in foreground is operating a column mounted drill.
Miners; Mining equipment; Headframes (Mining); Children; Women
Eleven miners, a boy and a woman (in light dress with umbrella) gathered around a wooden headframe at the A D & M Mine near Gibbonsville in Lemhi County, Idaho. Head frame for the new shaft. People unidentified
Triumph Mine, the longest operated mine in the Wood River Valley, sitting at foot of sage-covered hills. There is a tailing pond in foreground, and a waste dump and shaft on the hillside in the background. The ore bins are at the very top of the...
K.P. Plowman's claim near Idaho City. Miners sitting on hydraulic equipment. 1st row l to r: 1. Fred Garrecht, 2. Clay Mosher, 3. John Barry, 4. Louis Garrecht, 5. 6. 2nd row l to r 1. Ed Foster 2. Will Garrecht, 3. 4. William Horton, 5. Arch...
Miners working near ore bins for new sorting plant at the Morning Mine near Mullan in Shoshone County, Idaho. Note all the various supplies and mining and milling equipment.