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Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)

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Posted: 25 Feb 2009

Taken: 01 Jul 2007

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Hamilton, NV 678

Hamilton, NV 678
Hamilton, NV town site and mining area. Above Hamilton are the foundations of a relatively large structure, though there isn't enough foundation left to provide any suggestion as to the use of the structure. The dark areas in the distance (look near the base of the chimney) are the ruins of Hamilton. The white building is a modern building.

The gray squares in the center of the picture to the left of the chimney appear to be tailings but are more organized than typically seen around older mines. I believe these are from relatively contemporary efforts to solve the pollution problems associated with the abandoned mines. That is snow on the mountains. (Date is approximate)

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 slgwv
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I'd guess that rather than tails they're heap leaches, because of the way they're built up. The way to tell for sure is if they're on top of some sort of impermeable layer, typically thick plastic. That catches the leachate (the "pregnant solution"(!)) for further processing.
10 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to slgwv club
I'd been up there a few years before this picture and I'm fairly certain they weren't there then. Since there had apparently been no mining in the area, they must be efforts to handle the environmental impact, which would make them leaches.
10 years ago.
slgwv club has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
Or it could be reprocessing of material that already was lying around. Sometimes the old tails are worth reworking, even with no new excavation, because the original extraction technology left behind a lot of values. That's been a cottage industry with cyanide reprocessing since the 1890s--the problem is finding places that haven't already been reworked!
10 years ago.
 Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
There is quite a bit of mining going on in the general Ely area, so it makes some sense that someone has reworked it.
10 years ago.

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