TREASURE HOUSE RELICS Project
Tar Baby Mine

 

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The heavily overgrown and fallen portal of the Tar Baby mine c.2005   Donald K. Winegar - Tintic Images

Location data

QUICK LOCATION PATH: Utah / Salt Lake County / Big Cottonwood District / Big Cottonwood Canyon / South Fork or Cardiff Fork / mid-canyon
 

 
Approximate GPS Location:

40.37.087 N - 111.39.212 W  (field) 

 

Approximate Elevation:

8343'  (field) 

 

30 x 60 Minute Map:

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

 

7.5 Minute Map:

DROMEDARY PEAK, UTAH

 

What remains

Almost nothing remains at the Tar baby sites. A fallen portal, a compressor housing on a concrete pedestal and fallen building remnants everywhere. Corrugated metal, rotting boards, and odd bits and pieces of machinery parts. No structures remain standing.
 

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View looking north from the portal across the scant remains of the Tar Baby surface workings c.2005  
Donald K. Winegar - Tintic Images

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