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Colorado Mineral Belt. Colorado mining history is a chronology of precious metal mining (e.g., mining for gold and silver), fuel extraction (e.g., mining for uranium and coal), building material quarrying (iron, gypsum, marble), and rare earth mining (titanium, tellurium).
The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company began the first large-scale open pit mining in the district in 1994. [28] The Cresson mine open pits are located a few miles north of Victor. Mining continues today under the ownership of Newmont Corporation , which boosted gold production from 211,000 troy ounces (6.6 t) in 2014 to 451,000 troy ...
Cripple Creek Historic District [3] is a historic district including Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States and is significant for its gold mining era history.It developed as a gold mining center beginning in 1890, with a number of buildings from that period surviving to this day.
Coal mining in Colorado is known to negatively impact both air and water quality. [11] [12] The West Elk Mine in Gunnison County is the largest methane emitter in Colorado, and in 2017 it emitted a quantity of methane equivalent to 98,000 cars. [13] Colorado's 8 remaining coal mines use an unknown quantity of water each year. [14]
The history of the death penalty in Colorado (University Press of Colorado, 2017). Rohrbough, Malcolm J. Aspen: The History of a Silver Mining Town, 1879-1893. 1986. scholarly study; Scamehorn, Lee. High Altitude Energy: A History of Fossil Fuels in Colorado (2002) Scamehorn, Lee. Mill & Mine: The Cf&I in the Twentieth Century (1992) online
Colorado Springs Mining Stock Association was founded about 1886 to trade stock of Cripple Creek mines, some of which grew between 1,000% and 10,000% by 1893. It traded stocks "in almost every state and country in the world." John W. Proudfit & Co., founded in 1890, was the first organization in Colorado Springs to buy and sell mining stocks.
The Climax mine, located in Climax, Colorado, United States, is a major molybdenum mine in Lake and Summit counties, Colorado. Shipments from the mine began in 1915. At its highest output, the Climax mine was the largest molybdenum mine in the world, and for many years it supplied three quarters of the world's supply of molybdenum.
This timeline is a chronology of significant events in the history of the U.S. State of Colorado and the historical area now occupied by the state. 2000s 1900s 1800s Statehood Territory 1700s 1600s 1500s Before 1492