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Ore Carts and Tracks
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Iron tracks for mining carts to carry the rocks were installed
on horizontal (or relatively horizontal) tunnels. Until modern
combustion engines were invented, the ore carts were pulled by
donkeys or mules, or they were pushed by men. This photograph (used by permission of NBMG) from Outlines
of Nevada Mining History (Tingley, Horton, and Lincoln, p.
15) shows the interior of the Gould and Curry mine with miners
and ore carts in the early 1880s.
Chutes were built so the rocks could be moved from one level
to another and onto the ore buckets that were pulled up from the
mine. This photograph of a model in the Nevada
State Museum (used by permission of the Nevada State Museum)
shows ore carts in the mine being loaded from two chutes.
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Ore Carts and Tracks
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