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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 ...
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: 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.
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 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 ...
A rescue operation in Colorado to bring trapped mining tour visitors out of an underground mine was successful, seven hours after one person died and four others were injured. 12 rescued from ...
The News Tribune took a tour of the Pioneer Aggregates Mine on Friday to see how the mining process works and learn more about why the company believes it should be allowed to expand. The ...
Remains of an abandoned house in Eureka, June 2019. Charles Baker's group of prospectors found traces of placer gold in the San Juan Mountains in 1860 at Eureka. Forced out by the Ute Tribe in 1861, who had been awarded the area in a US treaty, the prospectors returned in 1871, when lode gold was found in the Little Giant vein at Arrastre Gulch near Silverton, Colorado.