From: lumpy@digitalcartography.com   
      
   nospam@notreal.com wrote:   
   > Any idea what the small wind turbine would be for in picture 51 004.   
   > It looks out of place with all the rusted equipment in the area that   
   > appears much older.   
      
   Based on that top section of Rohn tower, I'd guess that   
   fan has about 12 or 14 inch blades. Mounted very solidly, on   
   a concrete slab, which as you suggest, looks newer than   
   the rest of the old bldgs.   
      
   It's surely not a weather instrument. It just about has to   
   be some kind of small generator. But small it is indeed.   
   And just that far off the ground seems weird. Typical   
   wind/electrical generator would be a lot higher and a lot   
   bigger blades. I'd suggest some kind of homebrew gadget,   
   except someone's obviously gone to the expense and trouble   
   of pouring a very thick foundation for the thing.   
      
   Anti electrolytic corrosion inhibitor? That's typically   
   for water lines or subsea power cables. And solar is more   
   typical since at least the 70s that I know of.   
      
   How did they supply water to the original groom/black metal   
   areas? Wells way up there? Truck it in? Did they have tailing   
   ponds up there or did they bring the ore down and process it   
   somewhere else?   
      
      
   Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke   
      
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