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Flour Mine

Flour Mine

These are underground photos from a mine (not its real name) in the Silverton area that we explored. I didn’t have much underground time planned for this trip, but the mines we checked out turned out to be fantastic. One of these vast mines had a lot of equipment

Buffalo Boy Mine

Buffalo Boy Mine

The Buffalo Boy was a small gold and silver mine which started production around 1930. The mine is caved in, but the interesting thing about the site is the long and steep tramway heading up to it. The tram line is over 8,500 ft in length and rises 2,

Cutthroat Castle - Hovenweep

Cutthroat Castle - Hovenweep

The Cutthroat Castle Pueblo was built around the same time as the other Hovenweep Puebloan ruins. Although the pueblo looks small, many people would have lived around it in the area. The site is along a canyon and is unusual in that it had a kiva built on top of

Hand Painted Pueblo - Hovenweep

Hand Painted Pueblo - Hovenweep

These are the remains of a small pueblo village site inside Hovenweep National Monument and surrounded by the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. The pueblo was probably built in the 1200s by Ancestral Puebloans (Anazasi). This tower is along the side of a canyon and completely below the rim.

The Juggler Petroglyphs

The Juggler Petroglyphs

This is an interesting and fun little Fremont petroglyph site in the Molen Reef just east of Emery, Utah. Concentric circles surround this single anthropomorphic figure. Amusingly, he looks like he is juggling suns, hence the name. It’s possible there are a few more petroglyphs around in the immediate

North London Mine

North London Mine

Miners first worked gold, silver, and lead from the London Mine in 1874. After it was developed, they decided to try to work the lode from the south side of London Mountain. The South London Mine was born in 1880, and it was fabulously wealthy and just around the corner.

Yankee Fork Gold Dredge

Yankee Fork Gold Dredge

Few gold dredges are left surviving in the lower 48 states, and even fewer are intact. This is one of the few. When I first heard about it, I had to see it. I was not disappointed. The Snake River Mining Company (a subsidiary of the Silas Mason Co.) contracted