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Gilman is an abandoned mining town in southeastern Eagle County, Colorado, United States. The Gilman post office operated from November 3, 1886, until April 22, 1986. [ 3 ] The U.S. Post Office at Minturn ( ZIP Code 81645) now serves Gilman postal addresses.
Eagle Mine is an abandoned mine near the ghost town of Gilman and about one mile southeast of Minturn, in the U.S. state of Colorado. [1]Mining began in the 1880s, initially for gold and silver but focusing predominantly on zinc during later stages of its operation.
It originally held claims in the Gilman Mining district in Colorado. From 1912 to 1915, the New Jersey Zinc Company acquired and consolidated the mines as the Eagle Mines and operated Empire Zinc Company as a subsidiary. It also bought the town of Gilman, Colorado and ran it as a company town. The Eagle Mine site at Gilman is an EPA Superfund site.
According to my relatives who grew up in Gilman and worked around the mine nearly through it's closure in the 1980's, the mine/town closure as a superfund site was not because of mining operations. Rather, the new owner of the mine is reported to have left the power bill unpaid causing the power company to turn off power.
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