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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 ...
The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine, formerly and historically the Cresson Mine, is an active gold mine located near the town of Victor, in the Cripple Creek mining district in the US state of Colorado.
It operated a custom mill, treating up to 40,000 tons of Cripple Creek ore each month. [1] The mill includes rolls, roasting furnaces and cyanide equipment. [3] The Golden Cycle Mine was sold to Vindicator Consolidated Gold Mining in 1915 for $1,300,000 (equivalent to $39,153,947 in 2023). [1]
The 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill was an environmental disaster that began at the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, [2] when Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) personnel, along with workers for Environmental Restoration LLC (a Missouri company under EPA contract to mitigate pollutants from the closed mine), caused the release of toxic waste water into the Animas River watershed.
Backed by the pro-union Victor and Cripple Creek Daily Press, the unions elected union members to public office, and split the mining district from El Paso County, by creating Teller County. [ 6 ] p.69 Teller County was a union county where the eight-hour workday was enforced, and workers were paid union scale.
A small turtle, S. depressus can have a straight carapace length of 7.5–10 cm (3.0–3.9 in) as an adult, with a record length of 11.4 cm (4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in). [ 7 ] Both the common name and specific name refer to the fact that the species' carapace (upper shell) is much lower and flatter than those of the other members of the genus Sternotherus .
The Coal Creek Historic Mining District (Hän: Zhùr näddhä`ww juu) is a gold-mining area in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve of Alaska dating from the 1930s. It features a gold dredge and a supporting community of several dozen buildings, established by mining entrepreneur Ernest Patty.
Bear Creek Mining Corporation is a junior mining exploration company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. The company is headed by Chairwoman Catherine McLeod-Seltzer, CEO Anthony Hawkshaw and President and COO Eric Caba. [ 1 ]