North Country At Work

Removing mud from the Arnold Pit at the Gouverneur Talc Company. June 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.

Miners drill a drift heading inside a mineshaft. Republic Steel Company mine. From the Patrick Farrell Mining Photograph Collection. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

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.

Worker operates a mine hoist from a control room for a 5,000 foot deep shaft. From the Patrick Farrell Mining Photograph Collection. Essex County, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

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.