View of a hydraulic gold mine in Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado; shows eroded embankments, falling water, jets of water from "monitor" nozzles, sluices, flumes, a crane, and miners. Mountains are in the background.
View of ground sluices used for hydraulic gold placer mining in Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County, Colorado. A footbridge spans Clear Creek; houses and barns are across the water.
View of Gold Run hydraulic placer gold mine, near Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado; shows miners, monitor nozzles, water jets, sluices, pipes, and electrical power poles.
View of hydraulic gold placer mining at Park Reservoir, Sheridan County, Wyoming; shows miners working by embankments, sluices, scaffolding, and holding ponds.
View of a mining camp with cabins, covered wagons, tents, a gold field with diggings, tailings, and wooden sluices on a treeless hillside in Gilpin County, Colorado.
A group of miners with shovels and pitch forks work on a system of sluices possibly in Illinois Gulch, Gilpin County, Colorado. Shows cabins, tents, sign on a business reads: "Star & Johnson, Sterling Industry Wholesale Dealers."
View of a hydraulic mining operation in Virginia City, Montana; shows wooden sluices, a hose on a reel, rock tailings, a hoist and a section of the sluice or flume, and abandoned headgates.
Sluices--Montana--Virginia City--1870-1880.; Virginia City (Mont.)--1870-1880.; Flumes--Montana--Virginia City--1870-1880.; Hydraulic mining--Montana--Virginia City--1870-1880.; Mining--Montana--Virginia City--1870-1880.
Workmen work with shovels and wheelbarrows at the Alameda underpass construction site in Denver, Colorado. Sluices and a vertical tubular boiler are nearby.
Underpasses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Construction workers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Construction--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
A man stands on the headgate of the Croke Canal in Jefferson County, Colorado; irrigation water rushes through sluices; foothills of the Front Range in background.
Men crowd an irrigation canal, watching water pour through sluices of the Burlington Ditch in Adams County, Colorado; cement-mixing construction equipment is nearby.
Adams County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Burlington Ditch (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Irrigation--Colorado--Adams County--1910-1920.
View of American Gulch in Summit County, Colorado. The gulch eroded from hydraulic gold mine work; a flume and mill house owned by the Wapiti Mining Company are on the steep valley walls. A miner aims a jet of water, which runs through sluices and...
Hydraulic placer gold dredge, in Summit County, Colorado; shows the gantry, tail sluices, processing sheds, and the stacker extending over mine tailing piles. Hills are in the background.
View of a Public Works Administration hydraulic placer mining class by the Platte River, Denver, Colorado; shows men and boys with rocker sluices and gold pans. A bridge spans the river.
United States. Public Works Administration.--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Children--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Miners--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Mining...
View of a hydraulic mining operation in a stream bed in Virginia City, Montana. Shows a hose with a monitor nozzle, sluices, and a flume; water falls from ground level.
Virginia City (Mont.)--1870-1880.; Hydraulic mining--Montana--Virginia City--1870-1880.; Miners--Montana--Virginia City--1870-1880.; Mining--Montana--Virginia City--1870-1880.
Man stands on the headgate of the Croke Canal in Jefferson County, Colorado; irrigation water rushes through sluices; foothill of the Front Range are in background.
View of the Golconda Group Mine in Summitville, Rio Grande County, Colorado. Shows wood plank building, log cabin, and tent. A sluice box sits in an excavated trench. Men are in the distance.
Golconda Group Mine (Rio Grande County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Summitville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Summitville--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Summitville--1890-1900.; Sluices--Colorado--Summitville--1890-1900.
View of the Golconda Group Mine near Summitville in Rio Grand County, Colorado. A sluice box sits in an excavated trench. Men work near the trench. Mount Hesperus (Hesperus Mountain) is in the distance.
Golconda Group Mine (Rio Grande County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hesperus Mountain (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Summitville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Summitville--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Summitville--1890-1900.;...
View of mine buildings and the aerial tramway at the Payrock Mine near Georgetown in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Shows a sluice box, chute, privy, and frames for the tramway.
Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Payrock Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Aerial tramways--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Clear Creek...
View shows a group of miners running a complex sluicing operation on the banks of an unidentified stream near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. The stream appears to have been diverted through a deep cut to accommodate their work.
View of men placer mining probably somewhere in Colorado; men working with sluice box & shovels in streambed; copy glass plate attributed to L.C.McClure.
View of Colorado and Southern Railway (C&S) narrow gauge tracks, a sluice, and Clear Creek at Tough Criss Bend in Clear Creek Canyon (Jefferson County), Colorado.
Colorado and Southern Railway--1870-1880.; Sluices--Colorado--Jefferson County--1870-1880.; Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1870-1880.; Clear Creek Canyon (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1870-1880.;...
View of Clear Creek at the entrance to Clear Creek Canyon in Jefferson County, Colorado. Colorado and Southern Railway (C&S) narrow gauge tracks and a sluice are on either side of the creek.
Colorado and Southern Railway--1870-1880.; Sluices--Colorado--Jefferson County--1870-1880.; Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1870-1880.; Clear Creek Canyon (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1870-1880.;...
View of a Public Works Administration hydraulic gold mining class, in Denver, Colorado; shows men with a rocker sluice and gold pans. One wears high boots, another smokes a cigarette.
United States. Public Works Administration.--1930-1940.; Sluices--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Gold mining--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.;...
Miners use a gold pan and sluice for hydraulic gold placer mining, in Rockerville, Pennington County, South Dakota. They are: Spriggs, Lamb (by dog), and Dillon.