Ahmeek Mine
We have seen a few of these buildings, and we could tell almost right away what it was for once we stumbled across it. The thick walls, lack of windows, and vents over the doors all point to one thing: powder house. We have featured two other similiar buildings here on Explorer; one at the Central Mine and another at the Mohawk Mine. These buildings were built tough, specifically to survive the detonation of its explosive contents. Nature and time won’t be quite as harsh.
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Stretching out from where we stood was a row of concrete foundations, all of similar size and shape. These were beds for large pieces of machinery that had been removed long ago. Sprinkled along them were the steel rods and metal brackets that once anchored those machines. At first we thought we were looking at one long foundation, but a series of dividing walls told us we were looking at three separate buildings placed up against each other.
Wherever you find the foundation to a steam engine (or three in our case) you are bound to find a boiler house nearby. The Ahmeek Mine was born too early to have an electric hoist, and as such required steam to power its surface plant. At the No. 2 that boiler house was literally right next door, so close in fact that we dropped down from the walls of the previous ruin and landed right on top of it. Like the hoist ruin we found previously, it didn’t take us long to figure out where we had landed.
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