I purchased the back issues of Railroad Model Craftsman from December 1976 and January 1977 that describes kit bashing the "Frenda Mine" out of two plastic kits; Bachman's coaling tower, and an AHM store house. I'm re-drawing them in Adobe Illustrator and have them almost done. I can sent you PDFs of the mine when complete. Here's the drawing images.
This right-side view shows a single-level tipple. It also shows a vertical mine shaft as evidenced by the house with the big sheave on top.
The left side view shows a double-height tipple and a horizontal shaft entrance. I'm designing it entirely for scratch-building. I've built a Gloor Craft coaling tower which closely follows the same timber building practice. I like the verticality of the design, I also like that it doesn't take up too much lateral space. I'm going to structure the mountain so this structure will fit right in. The houses will be board and batten siding.
To scale the drawings, I assumed that the door ways were 79". I resized the windows so some Tichy products would drop in.
Hope this helps.