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Coal mining in Colorado is known to negatively impact both air and water quality. [11] [12] The West Elk Mine in Gunnison County is the largest methane emitter in Colorado, and in 2017 it emitted a quantity of methane equivalent to 98,000 cars. [13] Colorado's 8 remaining coal mines use an unknown quantity of water each year. [14]
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 town of Alma, Colorado, the heart of this district, was established on December 2, 1872 by miners working the area, though that area had been actively mined since 1860. [8] The principal districts were the Alma - Fairplay district on the headwaters of the South Platte River , and the Tarryall district along Tarryall Creek northwest of Como ...
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..
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.
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 ...
The Leadville strike of 1880 was the first major labor conflict in the central Colorado silver boomtown, shutting down most of the area’s mining district from May 26, 1880. [ 12 ] According to one historian of the era, "The outpouring of the precious metal from Leadville transformed the struggling Centennial State into a veritable autocrat in ...
Uranium mining in Colorado, United States, goes back to 1872, when pitchblende ore was taken from gold mines near Central City, Colorado. The Colorado uranium industry has seen booms and busts, but continues to this day. Not counting byproduct uranium from phosphate, Colorado is considered to have the third largest uranium reserves of any US ...