Bob Hembree's Photo Gallery

20N-DXJGold Au , Quartz SiO₂

Central City Mining District, Gilpin County, Colorado, USA

1 inch X 1.25 inch X .25 inch Gold in Quartz over .25 OZ about 80% gold
Found on mine dump with metal detector, 6 inches below surface.

Sphalerite Veins in face

Immel Zinc Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc Mining District, Knox County, Tennessee, USA

Sphalerite (yellow green) veins in face of mining area - scale of photo is 12 feet high and 14 feet wide

Hoisting Shaft at Immel Mine

Immel Zinc Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc Mining District, Knox County, Tennessee, USA

This is the hoisting shaft for the Immel Mine.

Number 3 Hoisting Shaft Gordonsville Mine

Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA

This is the headframe and ore stockpiles at the Gordonsville mine, ore from the adjacent Elmwood mine is also hoisted through this shaft. (2011)

Cumberland Mine, Hoisting Shaft - Number 8 Shaft

Cumberland Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA

This is the headframe for the production (hoisting) shaft for the Cumberland mine near Carthage, Tennessee. The shaft is one of 4 shafts currently in use at the mine in 2011.

Beaver Creek Mine 2010

Beaver Creek Mine, New Market, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc Mining District, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA

Beaver Creek shaft - mine is not in operation through this shaft, but is being operated in part through the adjacent Young mine. Operator in 2010 is Nyrstar, Inc

Headframe at Young mine 2010

Young Mine, New Market, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc Mining District, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA

Headframe on main hoisting shaft at Young Mine - 2010

Headframe of Coy Mine

Coy Mine, Jefferson City, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc Mining District, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA

The headframe on the production shaft at the Coy Mine in Jefferson City Tennessee, taken November 3, 2010. Mine is operating again under new ownership - Nyrstar

E59-4GMMillerite NiS , Uraninite UO₂ , Marcasite FeS₂ , Gypsum (Var: Selenite) CaSO₄·2H₂O , Siegenite CoNi₂S₄

Hack Canyon, Hack Canyon Mining District, Mohave County, Arizona, USA

Millerite in selenite with marcasite, uraninite and small blebs of siegenite (2 mm) specimen size 38 mm x 25mm. Collected from the upper level stopes of the Hack Canyon No 3 mine in 1987 during the latter days of mine's operation. This was one of three breccia pipes (Hack 1, Hack 2 and Hack 3) mined at Hack Canyon for uranium in the 1980's. All mines have since been reclaimed. The old Hack Canyon Copper mine was in a seperate breccia pipe adjacent to the Hack 1 mine, the uranium values in this pipe were not high enough to be commercially mined. The Hack 2 and 3 mines were a mile up the canyon from the Hack 1 mine.

AHE-KADQuartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) SiO₂ , Topaz Al₂(SiO₄)(F,OH)₂

Tarryall Mountains, Park County, Colorado, USA

64 mm x 32 mm Smokey Quartz with clear Topaz crystals (largest 8 mm). Specimen collected in spring of 2006 from the "Lunchtime Pocket"