CRH stock has been doing well since it changed its primary listing to the NYSE earlier thsi year and currently trades at a 19.3 price to earnings ratio. They just announced that CEO Albert Manifold is stepping down at the end of the year and he will be replaced by another financial man, CFO Jim…

Oral historian Jane Bardall gave a wonderful talk titled ‘Stories of Miners in Mogollan, NM’ in the September Mining History Association monthly nuggets presentation. Mogollon is in the southwest of the state near the Arizona border and had mining for silver and gold from the late 1870s through WWII. Jane covered the mining in the…

St Barbara is considered the patron saint of miners and there is usually a little shrine to her at the entrance to underground mines in many (Catholic) parts of Europe. But the connection between St Barbara and mining is very tenuous and she is also the patron saint of artillerymen, naval gunners and explosive engineers!…

Saw lots of great papers in the last few days that I would like to explore in more detail. For me the best was Brian Buck of the Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History on ‘Raising the Daly-West Headframe’. The best link would be on their webpage parkcityhistory.org/mining/daly-west-headframe/. But their were many others. Brian Leech’s…

The Mining History Association conference visited a number of old area mine sites today. The Spiro tunnel is right near old downtown and was originally associated with the Silver King mine, much higher up on the landscape. It is now being refurbished as a drainage and water supply system for Park City the ski areas…

The 2024 Mining History Association annual conference opened in Park City tonight with a reception at the old Miners Hospital. While the building dats to 1904, it was not originally in this site being moved here by the local history and preservation group to save it from demolition. A miners hospital in early years but…