Keys to Reading and Understanding the Stope Maps

This page includes several legends and keys to better understand the Stope Maps and visualize their locations.


This index guide is a visual aid to understanding the area and mine shafts each stope book covers. Using the numbers and letters in the book title, you can then use the numbers and letters in the border of the image to pinpoint a book's location coverage.

This index guide is a visual aid to understanding the area and what books are covered by each area. Using the numbers and letters in the book title, you can then use the numbers and letters in the border of the image to pinpoint a book's location coverage.



The maps include many symbols in the illustrations to indicate many different types of workings and items within the mines. Here is a key to understanding these symbols.
The stope maps are color-coded to indicate a year that particular working was made.

Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder

This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.

Using the CollectionBuilder-CSV template and the static website generator Jekyll, this project creates an engaging interface to explore driven by metadata.

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