Southwest Colorado

"Flour" Mine

Compressor

These are underground photos from a mine in the Silverton area that we explored. I actually didn’t have much underground time planned for this trip, but the mines we did check out turned out to be fantastic.

One of these huge mines had a lot of equipment underground. My camera stopped working for some reason (of course) right before I went into this mine, so the photos on this page are from Micah and Dan. Thanks guys!

Mayflower Mine (Telluride)

Barstow Mine (Red Mountain)

Bill Young Mine

The Bill Young was a small silver mine above the townsite of Animas Forks. The mine never amounted to much, but it still has some interesting remnants. The mine was located in 1873 and was developed by a 250’ deep shaft. Levels were driven at irregular intervals, with a total

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