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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.
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.
The Amethyst Mine, near Creede, Colorado Remains of an abandoned mine near Silverton, Colorado, in July 2020. Beginning in 1889, Creede, Colorado was the site of another big silver boom. The first discovery was made at the Alpha mine in 1869, but the silver could not be extracted at a profit from the complex ores.
The boom did not last, and by 1922 most of the mines were again closed. Among the biggest producers was the Nabob Mine, [6] where a new shaft was sunk in 1906. [7] The town struggled on for a while, with the last inhabitants leaving during the Depression. By the 1970s only an old mill and a few building foundations made of stone were left. [5]
Only one Colorado mine continues to produce gold, the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine at Victor near Colorado Springs, an open-pit heap leach operation owned by Newmont Corporation, which produced 322,000 troy ounces of gold in 2019 and reported 3.45 million troy ounces of Proven and Probable Reserves as at December 31, 2019. [29] [30]
There are several prehistoric sites near Uravan on the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties: [4]. Dolores Cave was inhabited from about 600 BC to AD 1400. A corn cob dated about AD 1500 was found in the site, which indicates that corn was grown in the area after the Ancient Pueblo People abandoned their Colorado pueblos in the 13th century.
Colorado is the eleventh largest coal-producing state in the country. In 2014, Colorado mines produced 21.8 million metric tons (24.0 million short tons) of coal, and employed 2,069 miners. But in 2022, Colorado mines produced about 12.7 million metric tons of coal. [7] Most Colorado coal is used for electric power generation.
The miners, by contrast, were usually longtime Colorado residents who had worked in mines elsewhere. [3] Mining towns in 19th-century Colorado had often been built by the miners themselves out of whatever material they could find and assemble in their spare time. Often these wound up being log cabins covered with rock and dirt. The companies ...