Simulated Diamond Drill Operator searches for more ore.
Rock bolt in white Calcite with bands of Franklinite.
Simulated miners charging a blasting pattern with explosives.
Simulated miner operating an air-powered scraper in a stope.
(Above) Ore car being loaded in a cross-cut below a stope.
(Left) Guide Earl Verbeek explains square set timbering in a stope.This stope was used as a movie set for the 2001 film “Zoolander.”The brown “timber” and black rocks at his feet are foam stage props.
The basement of the old Sterling Hill Mill was unearthed, refurbished, and now houses the Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence. Warren was the founder of Ultra-Violet Products Inc.
The old Sterling Hill Mill, ca. 1915, was replaced in the 1950’s by a more modern mill on the hill above the mine.
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