Posts Tagged ‘mining’
From Mining Days Gone By
Following are some images from a semi-restored stamp mill, high in a mountain basin not far from my home. The hopes of striking it rich with gold and silver drew many west and as a result, Colorado’s mountains are ‘rich’ with mining history. Several nearby towns had larger populations back then, than today. Many others […]
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Tags: abandoned, building, Colorado, history, mill, mining, San Juan Mountains
A Tour Through Time
Since my last few posts have highlighted landscape photography I thought I would share a bit of visual history this time around. When a photographer friend came to visit earlier this month I took her on the ‘tour’. We visited many of my favorite local spots which included several old structures leftover from the wild […]
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Tags: abandoned, buildings, Colorado, historic, mining, Ouray, Ouray County, photography, San Juan Mountains, Wilson Peak, Yankee Girl
Mining Town Remains
After going to a waterfall near Telluride one day not too long ago, we decided to explore another road I had been curious about. Up and around on a narrow dirt road we climbed, one switch-back after another. I avoided looking down at the cliff right below my passenger door and at the same time […]
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Tags: abandoned, Colorado, decay, deserted, ghost town, mining, mountains, old, photography, print
Exploring Abandoned Colorado
Remnants from the old mining days can be found throughout the San Juan Mountains in places like Telluride, Ouray and Silverton. On a recent trip to nearby Ouray I explored a ghost town that was made up of several falling down cabin structures, an old church, what looked like a schoolhouse and another building that […]
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Tags: abandoned, Colorado, ghost town, mining, Ouray, photograph, San Juan Mountains, southwest
