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Mint (aka Index Mine)
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Info Last updated: 19.02.2023 (13:29:45)
View of the Ore House and Shaft house of the Pointer Mine in foreground, with the Index Mine (former known as the Mint mine) in the left background. Between them is the Low Line roadbed.The Mint & Pointer Mines on Gold Hill.
Photo by: Unknown
My Collection; From page 30 in Seeing Cripple Creek, Januar 1904 (Vol. 2, No. 2).
Media ID: 3
This view here of the surface structures for the Index Mining & Milling Company is a view that has some fame to it as it has been used in several postcards crop-versions and I have seen it used in one postcard folder during the timeframe from when it was taken sometime before April 1916 when this postcard was mailed. From one of the other postcards I've seen the stamp box has a look that dates it around 1910. In regard to the view itself; I personally love it as it shows the former Mint mine on Gold Hill in all its glory! This mine was connected to the Low Line/Short Line branch through a spur that might have been meant to go all the way up to a connection at the Anchoria-Leland mine, seen a map that even drew the rails all the way but as far as I know it only came to be a roadbed without rails, with rails only at each end serving the mines there. This mine had its connection down along the Low Line at the so-called Alamo Junction, about halfway between Cripple Creek and Anaconda, named so from the nearby Alamo mine, which never really grew big... I did procure the colored version of this image, as I think it is nicer. Source is gray-toned, or in common speech black & white. Used an online service and tweaked and worked with image to get what looks best to my eyes for the moment.View Index Mine & Ore House on Gold Hill
Photo by: H. & H. Studio [Hileman & Hill] [19??]
My Collection; Postcards; Straightened, Colored, scaled up, cropped 300dpi scan. I did procure the colored version of this image.
Media ID: 532
A View at the Ore House of the Index Mining & Milling Company
Photo by: Unknown
My Collection; twisted, enhanced, cropped from a 300dpi postcard scan.
Media ID: 345
Id No. (Mine / 1902 map):
69
Type:
Mine
Date Located / Formed:
Location:
Gold Hill
Location Map Description:
Discovery / Formed by:
    Status:
    Destroyed in Open Pit
    Fate details:
    Owned by:
    • Index Gold Mines Company
      -> 1918-03-23 [reported As Owner]
    Known claims:
    • Keystone Lode - 8799
    Location Claim Description:
    Patented Date:
    Mineral Certificate No.:
    0
    General Land Office No.:
    0
    Known Transportation Connection:
      Extra Info/Details [Linked at One Time to the Entity]:
      Vertical Shaft
      Known Producing Info:
      April 1918 loaded at least 12 cars, ranging from 1 oz. to nearly 3 oz.
      General notes:
      It seems like the Shaft of this Mine is on the Keystone lode claim, almost at the border of the Irish Molly lode claim.