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Phelps Dodge Mining Photographs, Miami, Arizona

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Description: Sixteen artistic black-and-white photographs by J. Barry Thomson of various aspects of the mining operations of the Phelps Dodge Corporation in Miami, Arizona, in the early 2000s, including production, equipment, and products. Images include depictions of the mine floor; the leaching area; equipment such as trucks, conveyors, and shovels; an eroded slag heap; details of the acid plant and other processes. Some photographs are close-up or partial views of materials or products, while others are landscape views. Each print is matted, and the mats have the signature of the photographer in pencil.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 2001.
Call number: photCL 476
Creator: Thomson, J. Barry(Opens in new tab)

Phelps Dodge Mining Company

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Louis Janin photographs of Australian mining

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This collection contains 41 mounted 6 x 8-inch photographs of gold and copper mines, miners, and mining facilities in Australia, approximately 1895, including close-up scenes of miners working with tools and equipment inside mines. Other images depict overviews of mine buildings and surrounding land, smelters, mine interiors with walls of timber, and miners wearing helmets with oil lamp lanterns. The photographs were taken by American mining engineer Louis Janin, who traveled to the Australian mining districts in 1895 to identify uses for American mining methods and equipment. He contributed a report, published in 1897, for the prospectus of Australia's Cobar Chesney Copper and Gold Mining Company. Most likely these photographs are connected to one or both of these projects. Handwritten captions on the photographs identify the following mines: C.C.C.; the Peak; Chesney; Mount Pleasant; Young Australian; and Cobar, as well as Fort Bourke Dam and Fort Bourke Cyanide Works.

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Phelps Dodge Mining Photographs, Miami, Arizona

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