Old furnace

[chickenminer]

Ran across this old furnace on a piece of ground I was stripping last year.
Noticed the pile of old crucibles first, then the furnace itself.
Thought it was a neat setup. Not sure what they were using for a heat source.

furnace1.jpg

furnace2.jpg

furnace3.jpg

[chickenminer]

Guess I can only attach one photo at a time!?

furnace2.jpg

[chickenminer]

photo 3

furnace3.jpg

[Jim_Alaska]

Great pics and find Dick. It really gets the old curiosity juices flowing doesn't it?

I have posted more than one pic in a post. The way I do it is to post the first one, then hit the"Enter" key twice, to make a new space with sufficient space between the two pics, then be sure to hit the "Enter" key twice between each one before you click the "place inline". This puts each pic in line below the one above it. I'll Post some pics that way and you can see how it comes out.

hydraulic pit pan.jpg

hydraulic pit3.jpg

K-8 Gold 007.jpg

[chickenminer]

Jim... thanks for the tip. I'll try that next time.
If I remember!

[Jim_Alaska]

My rememberer is broken. If I want to remember something like this, I copy and paste it into a file that gets filed under "Jim's Stuff" in my computer.

[Joe S (AK)]

He, He, HE!

Jim, just don't forget where you put it. Happens to me all the time.

Joe

[chickenminer]

Good lord .... this is sounding like the old farts forum !!

[Lanny]

That old furnace, what a cool find!

Was it built where they were hand-mining a shallow-to-bedrock deposit? Or, were there adits or shafts for underground work? (Worked by machinery in some cuts before you got the place?) I sure am asking a lot of questions . . . , hope you don't mind, and if you do and don't want to answer, I'll understand. My problem is, when I see something cool like that, all kinds of questions just pop into my head, such an interesting find! (Great pictures too.)

I hope you did well after you stripped the place and ran the dirt, because with that pile of crucibles, someone was sure busy melting something (hopefully lots of gold), and that old furnace was a fantastic find all by itself. (You might have seen others like it before, but for me, it's a first!)

Thanks for posting, and all the best,

Lanny

[Jim_Alaska]

Good lord .... this is sounding like the old farts forum !!

Hey! I resemble that remark!