Gases and smoke from Tonopah-Belmont mine fire
dc.date | 1900?-1999? | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T06:00:11Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-03T09:25:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T06:00:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-03T09:25:41Z | |
dc.identifier | libimagesU249 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11124/6452 | |
dc.description | Date scanned: 2002-05-16. | |
dc.description | USBM #56985; Figure 2 Gases and smoke from Tonopah-Belmont mine fire. Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada. | |
dc.description | Held in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines. | |
dc.description | Donor: United States Bureau of Mines. | |
dc.description.abstract | Two men stand at the base of the destroyed headframe of the Tonopah-Belmont Mine. Silver was discovered on the future site of Tonopah in 1900 and the site quickly became a booming camp. The Tonopah-Belmont Mining Company was formed in 1902. In 1911 a fire broke out at the bottom of the Belmont shaft and 17 men died from the fire's toxic fumes. The Tonopah-Belmont Mine was reopened and continued to produce silver and gold until another fire closed the Mine in 1939. | |
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 | Silver mines and mining | |
dc.subject | Mine fires | |
dc.subject | People | |
dc.subject | Underground mining | |
dc.title | Gases and smoke from Tonopah-Belmont mine fire | |
dc.type | StillImage | |
dc.contributor.institution | Arthur Lakes Library | |
dc.contributor.institution | Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive | |
dc.contributor.institution | United States. Bureau of Mines |