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PICEANCE CREEK SHALE OIL PROJECT

These photos taken with a little 110 pocket film camera(waaayyy before digital) Occidental petroleum Shale oil project at Piceance Creek, Colorado. Site is about 40 miles north of Rifle, Colorado and about 20 miles up in the mountains. Site was completed in 1983 -then shut down without ever being put on line, many miles of mine shafts and tunnels were flooded to prevent collapse.
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The building on the right is the main shaft head building, it is where the giant muck/man/equipment buckets are lowered into the maim mine shaft. The building is about 700 feet tall. The building on the left is the service building, over the service shaft., about 300 feet tall.
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The building on the right is the main shaft head building, it is where the giant muck/man/equipment buckets are lowered into the maim mine shaft. The building is about 700 feet tall. The building on the left is the service building, over the service shaft., about 300 feet tall.

  • The building on the right is the main shaft head building, it is where the giant muck/man/equipment buckets are lowered into the maim mine shaft. The building is about 700 feet tall. The building on the left is the service building, over the service shaft., about 300 feet tall.
  • Looking out over the materials yard and mountain ranges from the top of the main shaft building.
  • Looking down from about 400 feet from a skyclimber outside the main building.
  • Looking over the main warehouse and supply area from the top of the main building.
  • From the roof of the main shaft building, the yellow 5/8" rope connected to a deadman on your D ring belt was your lifeline if the skyclimber failed.
  • My climbing partner Kevin, you can see the deadman just above his head.
  • Me, working on the building ventilation system. The system was a series of vents that opened when the wind blew and ventilated the building.
  • Us in the skyclimber at about 400 feet.
  • Looking down from an opening in the building at about 400 feet.
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