Mueller State Park (and Kites) 7-31-19

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The Kite chicks at home

Moth at home

Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine 7-29-19

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carbide lamps replaced candles

One of the types of drills

Most mining was done in vertical shafts - miners would stand on that board up there and work

Epsom salt leeches out of the walls

The purple vein is flourite - often associated with gold around here

This 'donkey' replaced real donkeys when Roosevelt outlawed them in the 30s.

new stalactites

for drilling overhead

Can't tell, but this is looking nearly straight up

riding a passenger cart (would not have been used by miners)

the tool 'shed'

There are no tunnels - there are cuts and drifts.  Cuts are transportation corridors and drifts follow the veins.

Mollie was one of the only females to stake a claim - the ore pictures is what she found that led her to make her claim.

A Victor miner developed this communication system with the surface

Cripple Creek from the overlook

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178445512/rhody-baayen

Couldn't find the story behind all the markers at the Cripple Creek overlook.  Maybe it has become a popular place for ashes or general memorials?