2007-01-032022-02-032007-01-032022-02-03https://hdl.handle.net/11124/10094Spanish ore mill, Buckskin Colo., from here came the jewels of gold and silver for Queen Isabella.Date scanned: 2000-10-26.Identifier: SC917.Related photographs: NMHFM-216.Unmounted; text on front.Held in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines.Postcard showing an arrastra cut into the rock at Buckskin Joe. Arrastras are pits cut into or lined with rock and used to crush ore by means of a drag stone pulled by a draft animal. The crushed ore was made into a slurry from which the metal was recovered. The mining camp of Buckskin Joe was located in Buckskin Gulch two miles west of Alma, Colorado in 1860. The camp had a population of over 1,000 in the first year, and during the first couple of years the placer mines produced $1.6 million in gold. By 1863 production had dropped and the town was mostly deserted.Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.htmlMineral processingStillImage