Keetley Mine

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Keetley Mine
Levall Whiddison, Superintendent of the Keetly Mine, with a narrow gauge locomotive on the light railroad
Levall Whiddison, Superintendent of the Keetly Mine, with a locomotive

OVERALL VIEW OF MINE SITE, SHOWING MINE CAR TRACKS, SNOWSHEDS AND TIPPLE (LEFT BACKGROUND). VIEW TO EAST. - Park Utah Mining Company- Keetley Mine Complex, 1 mile East of US HAER UTAH, 26-HEBCI.V, 3-4.tif

Narrow gauge railway tracks of the field railway
Keetley Mine stretch
Keetley Mine Complex, 1922-23
Gauge : Probably 2 feet = 600 mm

The Keetley Mine was a 1923-1980 zinc and lead mine in Keetly near Heber City one mile east of US Highway 40 in Utah .

history

In the early 1870s, miners began extracting one of Utah's richest ore veins in the Park City district of the Wasatch Mountains . To drain the deeper tunnels, the Ontario Mining Company drilled a three mile long drainage gallery that drained into the Provo River. It was completed in 1894.

After World War I , the Park Utah Mining Company built the tunnel into a mine shaft, known as the Keetley Mine. The Ketley Mine produced zinc and lead from 1923 until it closed in 1980. The miners' houses were demolished in 1983.

Web links

Commons : Keetley Mine Complex  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Clayton B. Fraser: Park Utah Mining Company: Keetly Mining Complex. 1987.