Galería de Minerales FMF

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OLD MINE VERSUS MODERN MINE 2

The upper photograph, dating to the late 1800s, reveals the Ojuela miner’s village as a bustling, self-contained settlement clinging to the mountainside. Tiered rows of miners’ modest dwellings are perched above the industrial heart of the operation: a dense cluster of offices, workshops, and amenities. Dominating the foreground, two main head frames stand as powerful sentinels, their structures marking the vital gateways to the subterranean workings that were the community’s entire reason for being. This was a place of relentless industry, carved directly into the unforgiving landscape.


Over a century later, the modern photograph tells a story of profound decay and reclamation. The mighty head frames have vanished, and the steep slopes where the miners’ dwellings once stood are now hauntingly bare, their former existence marked only by scattered stone foundations — the ghostly footprints of a lost community. Below, the once-thriving centre of the mine has crumbled into dilapidated shells, a somber monument to a bygone era of immense wealth and hardship. Amidst the general ruin, the more robust, stone-walled structures of what were likely the workshops, blacksmith, and engineering facilities stubbornly endure, their skeletal remains the last vestiges of the mine’s formidable power. (Author: silvia)