Armed with large circular screens, we worked the pocket remains in a small stream that ran past the mine adit. |
Today the adit can still be seen at the confluence of the Uncompahgre River and Canyon Creek, at the base of Oak Street on the southwest side of Ouray. |
For the next ten years it was leased to tributors who worked the old stopes of the conglomerate lode above the adit level. |
The authorization to excavate an exploratory adit in the accident area was granted in June 2005, allowing the work to begin immediately. |
Two shafts and an adit were ultimately driven, but Dunham reported that recorded output of lead concentrates for this period was fairly low. |
It has both a vertical shaft and an adit to an incline, which we and several mine officials entered in a small bus. |