You have a sense of history wondering around one of Canada's most famous silver mining areas. As you explore this mountainous area you can discover old head frames, equipment, machinery that date back to the early 1900's. Periodically you see head frames and are left with an almost eerie feeling. You have to search the photo to find the head frame, the same as you do walking around this area as nature slowly reclaims what was once a heavy mined area, Cobalt.
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A few weeks ago, I was helping out in a neighborhood I'd never been in and lo and behold there was an old abandoned factory smack in the middle of it. This building reminds me of it as the environment had begun to reclaim the area. It even had a tree growing through one of the broken windows. Good shot!
@linah hi Linda thank you for your comment. I head frame is a structure which can be 2 to 5 stories in height used to haul up buckets of ore from down in the ground they would raise the ore up to the highest level and then they would have ore cars that would transfer it over to a larger vehicle. Tonight I will post one you can actually see, there are not many of these left. Most of the silver had been mined by 1930.
It looks as those the pines have nearly crowded out the structures here. I spent some time hiking through an abandon mining area in Cripple Creek, Colorado this past summer — so many photo opportunities! Nature was reclaiming her land there as well.
