Checking Supplies Underground at Pilares Mine

Collage of two old black-and-white photographs of the inside of a tunnel at the Pilares mine in Nacozari, Sonora, around 1925. On the left, four miners wearing hats pose beside a mine cart on the tracks, inside a passage reinforced with wooden beams and planks; two of them hold buckets and metal containers, and cables with light bulbs hang from the ceiling. On the right, a long, narrow tunnel with rough rock walls on one side and block and timber walls on the other, with a pipe running along the side and two sets of rails disappearing into the darkness.

By E. Leland A Smoothly Working Plan That Keeps Careful Control Over the Use Materials (1925) – All mine supplies at the Pilares mine of the Moctezuma Copper Co., in Nacozari, Sonora, are purchased by the supply department. The local supply manager at the mine is directly responsible to the Nacozari supply department manager, and … Sigue leyendo Checking Supplies Underground at Pilares Mine