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Colorado ghost towns were abandoned for a number of reasons: Mining towns were abandoned when the mines closed, largely due to the devaluation of silver in 1893. Mill towns were abandoned when the mining towns they serviced closed. Farming towns on the eastern plains were often deserted due to rural depopulation.
Uravan (a contraction of uranium/vanadium [2]) is a former uranium mining town [3] in western Montrose County, Colorado, United States, which still appears on some maps.The town was a company town established by U. S. Vanadium Corporation in 1936 to extract the rich vanadium ore in the region.
The first Knights of Labor mining labor organization in Colorado was formed by Erie coal miners. [64] Mining labor unions continued to be formed thereafter. [46] 1877 lead Leadville Lead was found in California Gulch, which led to construction of a smelter that year, and soon after the founding of the town named Leadville. [65] 1874 gold Lake City
Several mining operations had sprouted along Battle Mountain by 1879, the first year of the Colorado Silver Boom. The town of Gilman and nearby mining operations were developed in the 1880s by John Clinton, a prospector, judge, and speculator from nearby Red Cliff. In 1887, gold and silver were discovered in two vertical chimneys at the Ground ...
Mining in Colorado: a history of discovery, development and production. Washington: G.P.O., 1926 [3] "Graff, Marshall Conant. A history of Leadville, Colorado. : , 1920. [4] Whitney, Joel Parker. Silver mining regions of Colorado With some account of the different processes now being introduced for working the gold ores of that territory..
Calumet is an extinct coal mining town located in Huerfano County, Colorado, United States. The town was founded in 1904 northwest of Walsenburg near the portal of the Calumet Coal Mine complex. History
Saint Elmo is a ghost town in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. [2] Founded in 1880, Saint Elmo lies in the heart of the Sawatch Range, 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Buena Vista and sits at an elevation of 9,961 feet (3,036 m). Nearly 2,000 people settled in this town when mining for gold and silver started. The mining industry started ...
Red Mountain Town, as it would become known, formed part of the Red Mountain Pass mining district between Silverton and Ouray. Alongside the Ironton , Guston , Sweetville, Rogerville, and Park City, Red Mountain Town formed a corridor through which the Silverton Railroad narrow-gauge ran, delivering ore to be processed in and transported from ...