Stereograph depicting a miner working at a mine’s tram terminal in an unidentified location in southwest Colorado, taken by the San Juan Studio circa 1900. The image shows a young man turning to look back at the photographer while he works in an unidentified mine’s tram terminal. Tramways were used to transfer buckets of ore, or other materials, down the hillside to a station to be processed. It is unclear whether this miner was on the shipping (otherwise known as a loading terminal) or receiving (known as a discharge terminal) end of the tramway. The hole below the bucket suggests this could be the receiving end and that the miner is about to empty the ore into the grinder located beneath it. The background of the image shows a train of empty ore cars along a track.
The San Juan Studio operated in Silverton, Colorado and Farmington, New Mexico during this period. This photograph is from their "Views of San Juan Country Southwestern Colorado" stereograph series.