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The Matchless Mine is a historic mine located in Lake County, Colorado. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, [ 1 ] and is part of the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum . History
The Matchless Mine in Leadville, originally owned by Horace Tabor, known as "The Silver King". The Colorado Silver Boom was a dramatic expansionist period of silver mining activity in the U.S. state of Colorado in the late 19th century. The boom started in 1879 with the discovery of silver at Leadville.
The Leadville strike of 1880 was the first major labor conflict in the central Colorado silver boomtown, shutting down most of the area’s mining district from May 26, 1880. [ 12 ] According to one historian of the era, "The outpouring of the precious metal from Leadville transformed the struggling Centennial State into a veritable autocrat in ...
According to Colorado fire officials, the Highland Lake Fire, which started around 4 p.m. on Monday and burned 166 acres near the town of Divide, was 80% contained on Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators are still trying to determine what sparked a massive fire in a suburban area near Denver that burned neighborhoods to the ground and destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and other buildings.
A historic mining community is decimated as the Park Fire and other massive wildfires rage in the Western United States Zoe Sottile, Susannah Cullinane and Holly Yan, CNN July 29, 2024 at 7:29 PM
The Leadville miners' strike was a labor action by the Cloud City Miners' Union, which was the Leadville, Colorado local of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM), against those silver mines paying less than $3.00 per day ($110.00 in 2023). The strike lasted from 19 June 1896 to 9 March 1897, and resulted in a major defeat for the union ...
A storage unit near Denver whose contents were purchased at auction turned out to contain a land mine, Colorado sheriff’s officials said. Authorities issued a shelter-in-place order around the ...