Looking west at approaches to #120 quarry. The south side is on right side of picture. From A to B is the roadway along the west bank of Buckhorn Gulch. The top is later used as the main road to Uncle Sam group of orebodies farther up the gulch. Area labeled C is the Face on middle bench. D is the Ore face on the upper bench. (To the right is waste & oxidized material that has been stripped, some by bulldozer). Area labeled E is the Bulldozer stripping dump. F is the waste dump for truck haulage from the upper bench. Photographed in September, 1946 by an Eimco Corp. photographer.
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Resource ID
4867
Access
Open
Contributed by
T'Yanna Watchman
Historic date (YYYY-MM-DD)
1946-09
Title
Looking west at approaches to #120 quarry. The south side is on right side of picture. From A to B is the roadway along the west bank of Buckhorn Gulch. The top is later used as the main road to Uncle Sam group of orebodies farther up the gulch. Area labeled C is the Face on middle bench. D is the Ore face on the upper bench. (To the right is waste & oxidized material that has been stripped, some by bulldozer). Area labeled E is the Bulldozer stripping dump. F is the waste dump for truck haulage from the upper bench. Photographed in September, 1946 by an Eimco Corp. photographer.
Credit
Courtesy of Franklin Mineral Museum, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Historic Photograph Archives, Socorro, NM 87801
Copyright code
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GrantFund
G20AS00008 USGS NGGDPP
Collection or Project name
NJ Zinc - Hanover
Main
Mining
Subject
Deposit, Quarry, Scenic
Other
Hanover, zinc concentrate, buckhorn gulch
Commodity
zinc
Creator
Eimco Corp. photographer
Marker lat / long: 32.8134, -108.0912 (WGS84)