The Plant of the Monarch Shale Oil Company using the "Ginet eduction process" De Beque, Colorado
Summary
View of the Monarch Shale Oil Company mine on a mesa in De Beque (Mesa County), Colorado. Shows the mine entrance and crusher site near layered shale at the top of the formation, a shale conveyor, a crushed shale bin, a retort, a stairway, storage tanks, a machine shop with storage barrels, frame mine buildings, a surface tram, and a hoist on the slope.
Accession number: 96.69.123; History Colorado.; Condition: corners torn and missing, masked.; Formerly F43171.; Handwritten on envelope: "C-De Beque-Oil Shale."; Inked numbers on photographic print identify corresponding mine features in photograph.; Title inked on photographic print.; R7200052384
Physical Description
1 photographic print ; 22 x 27 cm. (8 1/2 x 11 in.)