I skied in the morning at Vail then headed to Leadville to visit the National Mining Museum and Hall of Fame.
1) Top of the mountain pass between Vail and Leadville.2) Memorial to the 10th Mountain Division troops that were so instrumental in WWII
3) Entrance to Museum
4) One of many historical photos
5) Model of the mining method used at the Climax Mine where I worked underground as a mining engineer for 3 years from 1977-1979. The following pictures brought back a flood of underground memories from my work on the Henderson Tunnel (1974-1976), designing underground mines in Montana, Colorado and Chile while working for Bechtel (1979-1984) and working underground at the WIPP nuclear waste repository in New Mexico (Bechtel 1984-1986)
6) Description of the block cave mining method..
7) Low profile front end loader used undergroiund at Climax (called an LHD, load-haul-dump).
8) Haulage drift for transporting the ore to the surface crusher at Climax.
9) Miners working in the slusher drift fingers.
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