28.09.2023 (20:23:20)
Mining Scene Around the Golden Cycle Mine, Including Samplers on Victor Pass and La Belle Power Plant
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This view seems to have been taken from the road northeast of the Rigi mines group on Battle Mountain. At first I thought the small structure just to the right of the center in foreground, with the toilet shack a little bit further uphill/closer to the camera, might be a covered shaft on the J. I. C. Lode Claim.
* But further checks say it is more likely a home just north of that shaft, as the 1903ish USGS topo-map has a small square representing a structure, and a mining operation marking a bit further east, downhill; and they fit quite nicely with the foreground view. If I am right, that foreground 'hole in ground' is on the Clyde lode claim.
* Going from same base, there is a larger dump seen more to the left, about middle from the small home and left side of image, a powerpole is sticking up from the bottom of the image, and almost touch that dump, and if I am right, that dump is the Discovery Shaft of the Gracie Darling Lode Claim, also marked on the 1903ish map, as a shaft, not a prospect. The photo has more smaller dumps showing, and they are showing up on the Plat Map of the Clyde Lode Claim, so I buy into my own understanding of the image here. :-)
The timeframe of the view is about sometime after April 1902 and at least till August of 1908, and it holds quite much varied hints about that timeframe in this area of the District. I see the T. & B. Sampler structure being marked so on Victor Pass, and that structure was later renamed Copeland Sampler, sold to them in August 1908.
—> I came to look more at this image due to it showing something that might me think this might be more 1905ish as the Ide lode claim workings that is visible do appear on the USGS 1903ish topo-map, published with the 1906 Geology Report of the District.
* In this view both workings on the Ide Lode Claim, on northwestern slope of Big Bull Mtn, has their structures visible. Both the Discovery Shaft, that is the upper structure and appears to be a small log structure with a flattish roof, and it's southern working, just north of the Eagle Sampler branch of the Short Line spur.
—> Both can be seen best on the 1200dpi scan where the southern workings can be seen behind two smokestacks of what I believe to be the Theresa mine, and about 75mm more up to the left, along the Short Line mainline, is the lower, more flatter structure at the Discovery Shaft of this lode claim.
My Collection; Photographs; 300dpi.

• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ Mining Scene Around Golden Cycle Mine, Including Samplers on Victor Pass and La Belle Power Plant
• My Website; Cropped Photolink: ⊞ A Look Towards the Vindicator Mine Area with Huge Dumps [Straightened; Cropped; Colored 300dpi]

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