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Post by tsand1 on Jun 10, 2017 0:19:33 GMT -5
I have 3 large iron bowls that look more like funnels. They weigh between 100 to 150 lbs each. Very smooth. I live in a town that was heavily mined by Big Brutus for coal. I know they have something to do with coal mining and are left over remianances of the day.
Any ideas what they are or were used for?
Picture below. Thanks
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Post by tsand1 on Jun 10, 2017 0:55:07 GMT -5
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Post by tsand1 on Jun 12, 2017 3:06:41 GMT -5
38 views and No one has a guess? Any info would help. Thank you.
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Post by John on Jun 12, 2017 5:30:38 GMT -5
38 views and No one has a guess? Any info would help. Thank you. |
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Post by dazbt on Jun 12, 2017 6:44:24 GMT -5
38 views and No one has a guess? Any info would help. Thank you. Not a very good photo to work off, can you show the base or any other features, are those lifting rings? is it open at the base? do they look burnt i.e. any carbonisation inside? I have no real idea but would take a stab at these being coal retorts, maybe used to determine the qualities of coal samples, gas evolved, caking potential etc. More pics would possibly help |
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Post by tygwyn on Jun 13, 2017 10:23:39 GMT -5
Being an opencast operation and using the biggest face shovel,i`d imagine a part of that when it was dismantled after operations had ceased.
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Post by dazbt on Jun 13, 2017 18:14:01 GMT -5
Being an opencast operation and using the biggest face shovel,i`d imagine a part of that when it was dismantled after operations had ceased. Jim, I think the area around where Big Brutus was last used, West Mineral, had seen extensive deep mining before-hand, possibly hundreds of collieries before the opencasting, maybe tsand1 could confirm that this is the same area he obtained the "pots". |
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Post by tsand1 on Jun 13, 2017 23:25:23 GMT -5
The area is Mindenmines, Mo.
Pit, strip mining. I will try to get better pictures up. They were on my property when I bought it. The previous owners were using them as flower pots. They are way to heavy for that to have been their purpose. I actually have 4.
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Post by John on Jun 14, 2017 9:02:44 GMT -5
The area is Mindenmines, Mo. Pit, strip mining. I will try to get better pictures up. They were on my property when I bought it. The previous owners were using them as flower pots. They are way to heavy for that to have been their purpose. I actually have 4. |
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Post by John on Jun 14, 2017 12:56:30 GMT -5
Reading up on the area, right the way from Kansas and Oklahoma through to Howell County Missouri, the one to the west of me.
It appears this was a pretty large lead/zinc mining area, with hundreds of small one man mines, and large corporation mines from the mid 1800's through into the mid to late 1900's.
Many farmers worked mines on their properties during the winter period, so my guess would be they are smelting pots.
There were other lead/zinc mining areas in Missouri, some still mining the ore.
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Post by tygwyn on Jun 14, 2017 15:43:53 GMT -5
That`s one of the reasons the Missouri /Kansas border was a hot bed in the Civil War,each side needed lead.
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Post by John on Jun 14, 2017 15:49:22 GMT -5
That`s one of the reasons the Missouri /Kansas border was a hot bed in the Civil War,each side needed lead.  |
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Post by tygwyn on Jun 14, 2017 19:41:00 GMT -5
And Red Cloud didn't know of the 80ft coal seams in the Wyoming basin either,but lead mining was going on in the period of the civil war in that border country.
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