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[16] [10] The Sunnyside Mine would become one of Colorado's longest running and most productive mines. [9] The mine was shut down after the 1929 stock market crash, but was acquired by Standard Metals Corp. in 1959, and reopened, finding gold in 1973 with the Little Mary vein. The region's economy was dealt a devastating blow in 1992 when the ...
English: Foundations of the old Sunnyside Mill at the ghost town of Eureka, Colorado, can be seen in May of 2018. The Sunnyside Mine was the last operating mine to shut down in San Juan County, closing for good in 1991, although the mill in the photo shut down in the 40s.
Corporate headquarters were in Englewood, Colorado. In 1986 the company purchased Sunnyside Gold Mine in Silverton, Colorado, and operated it for five years before it closed because of low gold prices. [6] The company became a subsidiary of Kinross Gold Corporation in 2003 and has been delisted from the stock exchange.
English: Remains of an abandoned mine's ore chute along the Million Dollar Highway between Durango & Silverton, with the building being partially held up by the trees. Date 7 July 2020
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 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 ...
The Colorado Strategic Wildfire Action Program was created this year in response to the record-breaking 2020 fire season Incarcerated people are fighting Colorado's wildfires, including the recent ...
The Sunnyside mine was shut down after the 1929 stock market crash, but was acquired by Standard Metals Corp. in 1959, and reopened, finding gold in 1973 with the Little Mary vein. The county's economy was dealt a devastating blow in 1992 when the mine and the corresponding Shenandoah-Dives mill, the last operating in the region, permanently ...