Gold Bar fresh out of the mold. Gold content: .8375 Silver content: .15 Total weight: 36.74 Troy Ounces.

Mucking machine on the 1,000 foot level.

Flame in the furnace- getting ready to melt gold.

A sample of the October 2006 production. This material will be cut in slabs and sold to jewelers.

Tag board at the lower shop. Used by the miners to check in and out of the mine using their "miner's brass". Go to "MUSEUM" (sidebar) and "Articles" for more about the "miner's brass".

Miner and Tour Guide Ernie Locatelli showing Mary Carmen Olvera of Mexico the hoist room. October 16, 2006 Photo by Richard Davis

Antique Stage Coach entering Alleghany. Part of a wagon train that came into town last weekend. Photo by Edda Snyder

Lead Miner Adrayan Aquirre with young guest Marc Davis on Saturday June 25, 2006. Photo courtesy of Richard Davis.

View of the mill at the Plumbago Mine summer 2003. Photo couresy of Robert E. Fischer

The Plumbago Mine, March 2006. The folks out there are still snowed in (as of April 12th). They had six to seven feet of snow in March and unlike Alleghany they do not have the services of the county snow plows to keep the road open. Thanks for the picture Ron & Nicole see you when the snow melts!