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Photographed 25 October 2014.
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“Recently a fatal accident occurred, causing the
death of ten men who were working at the end of the
lowest level of the White Ash mine in the direction of
the Loveland mine. The latter mine has for years been
full of water. One of the upper levels of the White Ash,
which if protracted would have made connection with
the lowest level of the Loveland, has for a long time
been on fire, and it is supposed that this at last burned
through into the Loveland, letting in the water, which
ran down the White Ash shaft and drowned the men
working in the levels below. The bodies of the men
have not been recovered and the mine has been closed
down since the accident.”
(Ann. Report Golden School of Mines for 1889, p. 60)
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Coal
The Old White Ash Mine was among the first worked
in Colorado and was abandoned September 9, 1889 by
reason of accidental flooding, supposedly from the
Loveland mine to the north.
“A longitudinal cross-section of the Old White Ash
mine at the date of abandonment shows the collar of the
shaft to be 135 feet west of the main worked seam, and at
the 600-foot level was still 39 feet west. Below this
the strata become vertical, with indication of an easterly
turn, so that the shaft will nowhere cut the main seam. The
seam is opened from the shaft by cross-cuts, levels being
driven from these. The main coal seam 6 to 8 feet
thick was mined to a depth of 730 feet, A second seam,
3 feet thick, lies from 10 to 20 feet west of that worked. This
has been found to vary considerably in thickness, but has
never fallen below workable limits.”
(Emmons, S. F., Cross, W., and Eldridge, G. H., 1896, Geology of the Denver Basin, United States Geological Survey Monograph 27)
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