Redding/Wenonah Mine No.10

In 1879, the Alice Furnaces Company opened and work began on the Alice Furnace near downtown Birmingham. in 1880, the Redding mine was opened to feed the new furnace. A few years later, TCI purchased Alice Furnace Company. TCI later renamed the mine to No.10. In 1956, after 76 years of ore production, the mine was finally closed. Eventually, the mine portal was sealed with a concrete plug, then buried.







Today, the mine portal has been dug out and opened, but has a gate installed to prevent entry.



The view down the slope. The slope is flooded before any side cuts are visible.



There is a Hardie-Tynes compressor near the mine portal, which presumably supplied power for air tools to the miners. Historical aerial photos only show a concrete foundation where this compressor now sits, so I am unsure if it has always been here, or if it was recently placed as a historical exhibit.



Hardie-Tynes was a Birmingham based company founded in 1895. They finally closed in 2016.



The thermometer still works today, some 70+ years later.



























Looking down the slope toward the mine portal.









A trail leading to the northeast, toward Woodward's Songo mine.





This long pipe was laid across the surface of the mountain, leading from the No.10 mine, in the general direction of the Songo mine. Perhaps it was to take water out of the No.10 mine?



Structure foundations left behind below the No.10 mine.