Welcome to my collection of mining artifacts. My name is Hal Post and I’ve been collecting mineral specimens, mining books and most recently mining artifacts for over 20 years. My web site is still under construction but I plan to add interesting aspects of mining history from time to time. I’ve added descriptive text and a little history to each of my artifacts so I hope you enjoy the pics and perhaps find them educational as well. My goal for the site is to make it an online picture book, but I have a long way to go. If you have comments or questions, like the site or don't like the site, or have some suggestions to make it better, please let me know with an email. Thanks and Enjoy!
Check out some of my favorite early photos of Colorado and Utah mining history. These photos are from the USGS photo library coming from the early (1880s to 1920s) USGS studies conducted by such icons as Emmons, Spurr, Cross, Lindgren and Ransome. Some of these photos found their way into early USGS professional papers, monographs and bulletins but most did not. I hope you enjoy them.
The Utah USGS mining photos and some additional scans of old mining supply catalogs are new to the site. The 1899 catalog for the John Taylor & Co. is a neat old catalog that I hope you'll enjoy. I've also added some photos I took during a June 2008 visit to the W. M. Keck Museum at the University of Nevada Reno. It's a great museum for mining and minerals emphasizing Nevada's mining history. I'm continuing to add artifacts to the site. My favorite new old item is a 1000 oz. gold ingot mold from the John Taylor & Co. in San Francisco. It's a nice reference piece for the catalog. Hope you like them and find them as interesting as I do.
Here are photos from the 2008 Tucson and Sutter Creek Shows
2008 Sutter Creek Show
2008 Tucson Show
All content on this site copyright Hal Post 2007