Head of the navigation Coeur d'Alene River.The Northern Pacific steamer ""Georgia Oakes"" in dock at head of navigation on the Coeur d'Alene River near the location of the ""old mission."" The dock being constructed from the hull of the older...
Panoramic view showing the headframe and main buildings at the Triumph mine near Hailey, Idaho in 1938. Automobiles and a pickup truck are shown in the yard.
Mining; Prospecting; Forms (Documents); Meetings; Ore industry;
Collection of documents, letters and assessments, pertaining to Triumph Mining Company. These documents cover the different mining claims owned by the Triumph mine and discusses the differences between the mine with the same name from the 1880s.
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...
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.
Aerial view taken in 1936 by the National Geographic Salmon River Expedition showing ground being dredged in Warren Meadow. Note the dredge is in the middle of the photo. The general pattern of dredge ponds and tailings piles created in this...
Photo of two wilfley tables at the Yellowjacket Mill. Notice the bucket used to catch gold, bottom left. Materials ran down the trough from the first wilfley table to the second wilfley table.
Phots shows the lower level of the Yellowjacket mill. Ore was dumped beside the mill, then washed into a trough that fed into the trommel screen. The trommel discharged onto the wilfly table which caught the free gold.
