North Country At Work

Group of workers pose by the top house at the Arnold Hill Mine with the large pulley and cable of the mine hoist on the left. Circa 1900. Au Sable Forks, NY.

Ore that has been broken up by blasting is being loaded into railcars for transport out of the mine. Loading with an Eimco 21 shovel. From the Patrick Farrell Mining Photograph Collection. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Overhead photo of a dump truck winding its way down a road into the quarry. At the time, this was the largest open pit talc mine in the world. Gouverneur Talc Company mine.  Circa 1979. Balmat, NY.

Man with a triple-rotary dump ore car at the Joker Shaft. Photo is a gelatin silver print from lantern slide. Circa 1907. Mineville, NY.

Interior of the A&B Powerhouse of the Republic Steel Mine Corporation. Water is flowing through turbines at 2,500 cubic feet per second. Generator is run by a synchronous motor. The water moves the turbine shaft which moves a belt attached to the dynamo (a coil of wires inside a ring of magnets in the generator […]

A and B shaft surface hoist at the Republic Steel Corporation plant. The hoist was used to raise and lower workers and ore in the shafts. Circa 1907. Mineville, NY.

Four men pose in the interior of the boiler room in the Republic Steel Corporation’s turbine plant. Circa 1907. Mineville, NY.

Men operate a steam powered diamond drill, at the surface of the Joker Mine, operated by the Republic Steel Corporation in Mineville. This mine was in operation between 1900 and 1915. Circa 1907. Mineville, NY.

Drying iron ore concentrate. 1984. From the Patrick Farrell Mining Photograph Collection. Essex County, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Four miners loading an ore car and mucking and breaking rocks in the Joker Mine, operated by the Republic Steel Corporation in Mineville. This mine was in operation between 1900 and 1915. Circa 1907. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.