Julie Douglas

Mining Town

Mining Town

An exploration of past and present mines, mining towns, and the effect on our physical and social world.

Headframe at a gold mine that was abandoned in 1988.

Highway collapsing into an open pit mine with mountains of tailings in the background. A by-pass was built around the collapse, but it too began to sink and a large detour was constructed around the entire area.

Lockers at an abandoned mine in New Brunswick.

Baskets for workers to hang up and dry their work clothing for the next shift.

Asbestos tailings.

Abandoned pizza shop in a mining town.

One of the last standing abandoned headframes in Northern Ontario.

Core samples at an abandoned mine.

Core sample storage.

Headframe that is no longer standing in Cobalt, Ontario.

Sunset view of a headframe that towers over the small town that was built around it.

Abandoned house in a mostly vacant mining town.

Open pit mine slowly filling up each year.

A former lake filled with tailings near Cobalt, Ontario.

Abandoned headframe overlooking the town.

Tailings at an abandoned gold mine abandoned in 1916.

Abandoned hotel in a mining town.

Hollinger Mine, where the disaster of February 10, 1928 lead to the creation of a mining rescue team in Canada.

Abandoned house in a ghost town built for workers at the mine. When the mine closed, the town was abandoned and currently sits hidden in the forest.

Abandoned mine in New Brunswick.

Headframe at an abandoned mine near Cobalt, Ontario. Demolished in 2017.

Headframe at an asbestos mine.

Dredge used for placer mining, Yukon.

Dry at a former gold mine, demolished.

Acid mine drainage in a stream near tailing ponds.

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