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Alaskan Moonlight
Open Pit Mine Ruins
Before tunneling underground to get gold, the mine was simply a large open pit mine - which is now a...
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Piping
Like most of SE Alaska today, the Treadwell mines were powered by Hydropower, which was also used to pipe...
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Cave in site
The pilings to the left are part of the foundation for the Treadwell Social Club.
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Cave in
The cave-in closed most of the mines on the site. Only one could still operate, but it was not fiscally feasible on it's own, and closed in 1922.
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Mainland from Cave in site
Amazingly, no one was killed in the cave in, as flooding started some hours before and all were evacuated in time.
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Cave In Site
The mine was a great producer, but poor mining techniques ultimately did it in. The area here is the...
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Office Building Ruins
The building on the right side of the photo once contained the mine's safes - it too has survived, though...
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"New" Office Building
This building was part of the administrative headquarters for the mine - it is notable as most of the...
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Ruins
The grounds are littered with steel remnants of the old mine and the facilities that surrounded it.
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