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. 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. I love old mining supply catalogs so I will continue to add scans of mining items from these catalogs as they become available. 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.
In doing some research on the John Davis & Son company of Derby, England I came across a couple early catalogues from the company. The 1877 edition is the earliest known catalogue. If you like anemometers, surveying equipment and saftey lamps, it's a treasure full of history. I've also included the 1892 catalogue as well with even more items of interest. You also might check out a newly acquired John Davis & Son, Baltimore, MD marked safety lamp with an interesting story about Davis Derby.
I've also added selected scans of a couple newly acquired catalogues of assay and mining equipment suppliers. The Calkins Company Catalogue ca. 1909 is the first catalogue ever issued by this company and the only catalogue I've ever seen. In addition to a superb selection of assay balances, Calkins offers a one-piece miners' candlestick for $0.50, a Lindahl candlestick for $1.00, and a folding stick for $0.75. I have several folding sticks on order. The second catalogue is the 1918 A-2 Catalogue of the Pratt-Gilbert Company of Phoenix. This well known supplier of mine and mill hardware offers a variety of equipment including Truax ore cars, Granite mining candles and several Pioneer cap lamps.
The newest items to my site are a C Cleaves fuse cutter and cap crimper candlestick, an American Deputy safety lamp with a Beard-Mackie sight indicator, a neat fancy two-piece stick, a beautiful 1890's Wm. Ainsworth assay balance and a hard-to-find Montgomery Ward favorite-style candlestick marked Sunset. Other newer items include a very hard-to-find Knippenberg patent candleholder and stick, a 3 in. dia. Davis mining anemometer, a superb new old stock Justrite Number 76 carbide flask, a very nice Elkhorn superintendent-style carbide lamp, an early version of the Graves patent oil wick lamp and a small size gold-silver mold marked The Calkins Co., L A Cal that's included in the catalogue noted above. I hope you like the site and find it as interesting as I do in putting it together.
Here are photos from past mining shows. The 2009 Ouray Show just concluded so I've added several photos of the pre-show gathering at the Rush's piece of mining paradise as well as the 2009 Ouray Show. I visited Creede, CO before attending the Ouray Show. I've included photos of the Underground Mining Museum in Creede for your enjoyment.
2008 Sutter Creek Show
2008 Tucson Show
2009 Tucson Show
2009 Ouray Pre-Show
2009 Ouray Show
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