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Can you post these images somewhere else? I cannot seem to get to them.
Any plan drawings? What do the documents have to say about these places?
Occasionally some of these earlyish operations built chimney structures
near to shafts to make fires and incite a draft for ventilation. There
were surely blacksmith shops in the near vicinity, too, for sharpening
drill steels and fixing tools, but you'd likely see iron scrap and slag,
as well as a forge base.
More info, please.
PEM
The Old Man from MTU (where the gender ratio among students in the MS
program has been about 60/40 male/female)
> I am trying to identify a stone structures next to two mine shafts on a
> historic
> mine site on the Sumter National Forest in Oconee County , SC. The site
> was
> probably used in the 1850s and contains a couple of deep vertical shafts
> (15 x
> 15, and 10 x 10) and several adits, trenches and smaller prospecting
> holes.
> They were probably mining argentiferous galena (silver-lead). The stone
> sturctures are about 15 feet from the shafts, are mud mortared fieldstone,
> and
> about six feet square. They are each located upslope of the shafts on
> steep
> slopes and do not appear to have associated building foundations. They
> look
> like chimneys, but I have not seen soot or any charcoal or slag near the
> chimneys. Photos are on the attached:
>
> http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/fms/forest/projects/OconeeCountyHistoricMineStructur
> es.shtml
>
> Any Ideas? Thanks, Jim Bates
>
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