North Country At Work

Bert Bruno operating mining hoist equipment inside a Republic Steel Company mine. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Man operates a scraper inside Republic Steel Company mine. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Miners set explosives inside a Republic Steel Company mine. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Men and women in “man cage” ready to be lowered into mine shaft. Republic Steel Company. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Miners in man cages at the surface, ready to go down into the mine. Each miner has a helmet light. Republic Steel Company. 1943. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Surveying in the mine so that maps may be drawn of shafts and tunnels. A. Hughes is on the far right. Republic Steel Company. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Miner drilling a large chunk of ore. Republic Steel Company mine. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Miner unloads ore from a railcar. Republic Steel Company mine. From the Patrick Farrell Mining Photograph Collection. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

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.

Men loading a drift heading with explosives in a mineshaft. Note two buckets labeled “fuse” and “powder.” Republic Steel Company mine. From the Patrick Farrell Mining Photograph Collection. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.