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  2. Uravan, Colorado - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Gilman, Colorado - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Uranium mining in Colorado - Wikipedia

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    The Leyden coal mine, north of Golden, Colorado, produced 4500 pounds (2.1 metric tons) of uranium oxide from 1954 to 1956, as a byproduct of coal mining in the Laramie Formation. Rancher Solomon Schlagel discovered uranium in Weld County, Colorado in 1969 when he noticed that cuttings from seismic shotholes were anomalously radioactive. [ 32 ]

  5. Timeline of mining in Colorado - Wikipedia

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    The only working underground mine in Colorado in 2008 was the Cash mine, built in 1872, at Gold Hill in Boulder County. Each ton of ore yields about .75 ounce of gold at the mine, which daily extracts about 50 tons of ore. [4] 2004 nahcolite: Piceance Basin: American Soda pilot project that mined via fracturing ended after 3.75 years. [5] 2004 coal

  6. Mining in Colorado Springs, Colorado - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Kokomo, Colorado - Wikipedia

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    A historical marker near the old townsite recognizes the lodge, which was existent until 1966. [5] In the 1890s, Kokomo was at the highest elevation (10,618 feet) of any incorporated town in the state. [8] The town reached zero population in the 1960s when the land was bought by Climax Molybdenum Company to use as a tailings dump. [9]

  8. Vicksburg, Colorado - Wikipedia

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    The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 (as Vicksburg Mining Camp); a part of the town is maintained by the Chaffee County Historical Society as a museum. Four miles farther up the same road on which Vicksburg is located is another old mining camp named Winfield .

  9. Ashcroft, Colorado - Wikipedia

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    Ashcroft is an extinct mining town located in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.The silver mining camp was founded as Castle Forks City in the spring of 1880. A post office named Ashcroft operated at the site from August 12, 1880, until August 5, 1881, when the name was changed to Chloride.