Search Results: Mining Museum
27-acre indoor and outdoor museum exploring regional mining history and technology.
A museum of the uranium mining industry featuring a journey through a reconstructed uranium mine in the museum's basement. The uranium mining industry boomed around Grants in the 1950s, and continued through the 1980s, becoming the nation's largest source of uranium,...
The Minnesota Mining Museum is a cluster of outbuildings, machinery and artifacts spread around the grounds, including trains, drill rigs, haul trucks, and steam and electric shovels that sculpted the landforms around town. The focal point for the museum is the Castle...
Exhibits examine lead and zinc mining in the area through models, dioramas, artifacts and photographs. A guided tour includes a walk into the Bevans Lead mine.
The Miami Mine has an open pit, a smelter, and an electrolytic refinery that produces the final product: copper rod. The facilities are operated by Freeport-McMoRan, the largest publicly traded copper mining company in the world. The Miami/Globe area is an old mining...
Once the world's largest mercury mine. Much of the area has been converted into the Almaden Quicksilver County Park, with hiking trails following the old mining roads.
Abandoned limestone mine (with an underground pool) that has become a performance and function space for area residents. It is a "room and pillar" mine, so is relatively horizontal. The shallow mine is on the grounds of the Snyder Estate, a historical property that is...
A large museum of the local marble industry, located in the former showroom and warehouse of the Vermont Marble Company. In the early 1900s, when marble was still a major building material, the Vermont Marble Company, headquartered here in Proctor, dominated the trade...
An abandoned lead and zinc mine and milling operation in Missouri's Lead Belt, that has been converted into a museum by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Many of the industrial facilities of this large operation are being converted into use as an...
A local historical museum with artifacts and photographs depicting Tonopah and other largely depleted mining towns in central and southern Nevada. Notable especially because of the interesting region it serves, which includes the mining regions, abandoned towns,...
A picturesque ghost town in southern Nevada, in the Bullfrog gold mining district, with a split identity as a contemporary sculpture park. The ghost town has a number of multi-story facades still standing from the heyday of the town, which was around 1910, when the...
Currently the only Intercontinental Missile (ICBM) silo complex in the country that is open to the public. Most of the hardware is still in place, including the 110 foot tall Titan II rocket. The facility consists of three underground structures, connected by tunnels:...
Laws was the name of a stop on the old railroad, and though the railroad is gone, the stop is now a railroad museum. The rail line that once connected the Owens Valley to the world, the Carson and Colorado, was built in the 1880s, primarily to service the mines of the...
The Brimstone Historical Society Museum is a local history museum notable primarily because of its exhibit describing the Sulphur Mining Process. Located in an old train depot, the museum opened in 1976, to commemorate the sulphur industry that was centered here.
A museum with displays on regional coal-mining. It is adjacent to the Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour, where visitors may enter 250 feet into the mine.
A museum featuring mineral specimens illuminated under different types of light, and a mine replica. This part of New Jersey was a major zinc mining area until the ore was depleted in the 1950's.
The "pre-plastic junk," or "PPJ" Museum, located in the mountain mining town of Red Mountain, is a remarkable collection of artifacts scavenged from the desert and beyond. The collection includes a large wooden fishing boat labeled as part of the "China Lake Fishing...
This site consists of a square mile mining pit with unusual erosional features, now a State Historic Park, and the restored historic town of North Bloomfield adjacent to it. The Malakoff mine was created mostly in the 1870's using the hydraulic mining technique....
One of the largest mine tailings piles in the world: 7.4 billion cubic feet, the New Cornelia Tailings is often cited as the largest dam structure in the country, by volume (the tailings, waste material from the mining process, were heaped into a pile that created a...
Now a national historic site, this mill operated from 1913 to 1943, processing ore brought via the 22,000 foot Argo Tunnel. At the time it was built, it was the largest mill of its type in the world. It is now a tourist attraction.