Del Trobak’s Photographs Of Rix-Athabsca Mine and Uranium City 57-60

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These photographs come from Del Trobak. Most are included in his piece on living in Uranium City and working at the Rix Athabasca Mine from 1957 to 1960, but I couldn’t fit in all of them due to space.

@copyright Del Trobak.

Rix Athabasca Headframe, 1959
Rix-Athabasca, 1958
Rix Athabasca Mine Camp
Rix Athabasca Mine Camp
Van, Rix Athbasca 1959
Rix-Athabasca headframe
URanium City Main Street, 1959
Main Street, Uranium City
downtown uranium city 1958
Downtown Uranium City 1957
Uranium City Hotel 1958
The Uranium Hotel, 1958
Trobak Wedding, Rix-Athabasca Mine Captain giving speech
Speech at our wedding party
looking south downtown Uranium City
Rix Athabasca Campsite
The Rix Camp-site Bunkhouses 1&2 center left
Rix-Athabasca camp
deckman dumping ore rix-athabasca 1957
deckman dumping ore, rix-athbasca
Loading ore Rix-Athabasca Mine, 1958
Loading ore, 1958
Miners scraping 1958
Miners scraping broken rock
Harry Adams cage tender Rix Athabasca
Harry Adams cage tender
del trabak in cage rix athabasca
del trabak in cage rix athabasca
Drift miner collaring (starting) a hole
Drift Miner collaring (starting) a hole
Del Trabak on tram
Del Trobak on tram
Louise Trabak Rix Athabasca
Louise Trobak wearing Rix jacket
Del Trobak's friend Vicky R
My friend Vicky R
Steve and Shorty, Rix Athabasca Mine
Steve and Shorty
Christina's daughter, 1958
Christina’s daughter, 1958
Caribou tracks, near minesite
Winter, Uranium City, 1958
Eldorado Mines Camp, 1958
Eldorado Mines camp
Bunkhouse #3
Canoe, Cinch 1959
Canoe, Cinch 1959
Cinch Lake barrles
Dogs, Lake Cinch, 1958
Dogs, Lake Cinch, 1958
Del Trobak, picnic, 1959
Del Trobak, picnic, 1959
Dog team, 1969
Louise, picnic 1959
Louise, picnic 1959
United Church Uranium City
United Church, Uranium City
Sunset, Cinch Lake 59
sunset, Cinch Lake
Piper aircraft, Cinch Lake
Piper aircraft on Cinch Lake
Uranium City High School
Uranium City High Scholl
cabin on lake cinch
The Cabin on Cinch Lake, our home in Uranium City
Cabin, Cinch Lake
Cabin on Cinch Lake
Rix Float, Del as part of a ‘miners dream’
Canada Day Parade, Uranium City, 1957
Canada Day Parade, 1959
Lorado Float circa 1959
Lorado Float, Canada Day, Uranium City
Canada Day, Uranium City, 1957
Canada Day Parade, 1959
Rix Athabasca Float circa 1959
Rix Athabasca Float, Canada Day Parade, 1959
Lake Cinch Float
Rix Athabasca float, Canada Day Parade, Uranium City
Rix Athabasca Float – 1959

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