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Once a mountain
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Once a mountain

by John Tobias

Gallery: Man & FaunaPosted August 23, 2014228 views2 comments
Site of the old Climax Moylibdinum mine, Leadville, CO. The mine started as a stope mine, and ended as a open pit. Moly B has many uses.

Mamiya C-220
80mm Ektachrome
scan

I worked in this mine when it was a stope mine, for a short time.

Comments

2 comments
Comment posted by Karen Kane on August 23, 2014 at 12:29 PM
John, the larger image really shows the loss of mountain, particularly on the left side. Hard to imagine the volume of material removed.
Quite a change for you John - working in a mine to running a zoo! :toast:

Thanks for sharing
Registered on August 4, 2012, 66 Posts, 726 Comments
Comment posted by Scott Fricke on August 23, 2014 at 10:00 PM
Really good subject matter John. You can see the freshly exposed rock on the left and the natural oxidized rock on the right background.

Karen, it's actually not too hard to imagine the amount of material removed, they infilled an adjacent valley with it...
Registered on January 19, 2007, 133 Posts, 1448 Comments