Vein outcrops in Alta Basin
dc.date | 1929?-1930? | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T05:56:59Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-03T09:21:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T05:56:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-03T09:21:00Z | |
dc.identifier | libimagesNMHFM636 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11124/10419 | |
dc.description | Photo No.7. North portion of the Alta Basin. Many of the prominent veins are outlined by the streaks of snow following up the mountain slopes. | |
dc.description | Date scanned: 2001-09-12. | |
dc.description | Identifier: NMHFM-636. | |
dc.description | Mounted on construction paper in bound manuscript; text on manuscript. | |
dc.description | Related photographs: NMHFM-633, NMHFM-634, NMHFM-635, NMHFM-637. | |
dc.description | Held in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum. | |
dc.description | Donor: Dick Bowman. | |
dc.description.abstract | Claims were staked in the Alta basin by the mid 1870s and silver ore was being shipped by 1878. The Alta Mine, one of the area's largest producers, was being developed by 1881. Although most of the area mines operated intermittently, a few of the larger mines were steady producers. The Gold King Mine was the first mine operated by an electrical plant using AC current. By the late 1940s the district was inactive. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Sponsored by the Colorado State Library, the regional library systems of Colorado, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. | |
dc.publisher | Colorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library | |
dc.rights | Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html | |
dc.subject | Geology, Colorado | |
dc.subject | Gold mines and mining | |
dc.subject | Silver mines and mining | |
dc.title | Vein outcrops in Alta Basin | |
dc.type | StillImage | |
dc.contributor.institution | Colorado Digitization Project | |
dc.contributor.institution | National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum |