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	Colorado Mining History Photographs, Gold rush, Colorado mines, Colorado history, gold mining, Colorado gold, mining photographs, mining gold, Colorado mining
		Covering the early mining industry of the remote west in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado with the discovery of gold in 1859.
		Colorado Mining History in Photographs - Stereoscopic Views Featuring an on-line museum of rare and important photographs from the Keller Colorado Mining photographic Collection.
		This web site contains Contemporary images of Colorado mining history, and Miningbureau.com contains historic Images.
	www.goldexpedition.com (211 words)

	Story of Gold Hill
		A STORY OF GOLD HILL is an accurate and well-written account of the development of Colorado's first mining community.
		Besides mining, A STORY OF GOLD HILL also touches on the people and the social history of the town.
		Author Mabel Guise Montgomery was born in Gold Hill in 1885.
	www.thebooklode.com /Goldhill.html (166 words)

	Colorado Gold Rush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Colorado Gold Rush was the boom in the prospecting and mining of gold in present-day Colorado in the United States that began in 1859 (when the land was still in the Kansas Territory) and lasted throughout the early 1860s.
		The railroad lines built to haul gold from the mountains were a major part in creating the economic base of the region in the following decades, especially as Colorado experienced a companion mining boom in 1879 with the Colorado Silver Boom.
		The easy-to-reach gold deposits were largely played out by 1863 until another major strike was made in 1891 in the Cripple Creek area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colorado_Gold_Rush (729 words)

	Gold Hill, Colorado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally a mining camp, it was the site of the first major discovery of gold during the 1859 Colorado Gold Rush and remained an important mining camp throughout the late 19th century, with a population approaching 1500 at its height, before falling into decline.
		By 1861, the year of the organized of the Colorado Territory, the surface deposits of gold in the vicinity of the town were largely played out, resulting in a temporary exodus of prospectors and a population decrease.
		The town is located above Gold Run, the first lode discovery of gold in Colorado (at that time the area was part of the Nebraska Territory) on January 15, 1859.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gold_Hill,_Colorado (955 words)

	Colorado mining history photographs Mining Bureau History gold silver
		All the veins of the region were gold bearing in their surface-oxidized portions, and it was not until mining had been extended to the underlying sulphide-bearing ores that some of the veins were found to be rich in silver.
		This rare and important photograph of William Green Russell appears to be captured after the Russell brothers gold mining claims paid out, because of the new business suit.
		Gold in quantities sufficient to awaken their hopes was found at several places, particularly at a point 16 miles upstream.
	www.miningbureau.com (2135 words)

	Fairplay, Colorado -
		A historic gold mining settlement, the town was founded in 1859 during the early days of the Colorado Gold Rush.
		Although it was founded during the initial placer mining boom, the mines in the area continued to produce gold and silver ore for many decades up through the middle of the 20th century.
		It is the largest community in the grassland basin of Colorado known as South Park, sitting at the northwest end of the basin at the junction of U.S. Highway 285 and Colorado State Highway 9.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Fairplay,_Colorado (901 words)

	Gold Rush History in Victor, Colorado
		Victor was the working man’s town of the mining district, supplying homes for much of the labor force that brought the wealth of gold to the surface in the 500-plus gold mines that once operated in the mining district.
		Stratton Hall at the Colorado School of Mines stands today as just another example of his largess and to his appreciation to the school for a course that he had taken in blowpipe analysis.
		Interpretive signs show the various mines located on Battle Mountain, views of the City of Victor as it was in 1914 and as it looks today, a plan map of the geology of the district and the use of the sheave wheel and the procedure for dumping rock from the mine cars.
	www.victorcolorado.com /history.htm (1360 words)

	Aberdene announces letter of intent to acquire mining property in the historic Gold Hill Mining District of Colorado
		The Gold Hill Project is located approximately 8 miles west of the city of Boulder, Colorado.
		The historical known production was from previous producing gold and silver veins on the property, which are known as the Klondike, Slide, Prussian, Twin, Iowa and the Horsefal.
		At one time this was the largest producing mine in the district, and the largest employer in Boulder County.
	www.forrelease.com /D20040130/va239.P1.01292004214003.22883.html (169 words)

	Cripple Creek, Colorado: Gold Mining In The World's Greatest Gold Camp!
		Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining Co., a subsidiary of AngloGold-Ashanti, operates the largest surface mine and heap leach gold mine in the state of Colorado.
		Gold also is a part of the commerce in the mining district's two cities.
		The district's mines are responsible for making the area the fourth largest gold producing camp in the world.
	www.cripple-creek.co.us /gold.html (392 words)

	Colorado Mining Association
		The Colorado Mining Association is pleased to announce the formation of the CMA Small Donor Committee.
		Now individual members of CMA and those who support a healthy, viable and thriving mining industry may contribute a maximum of $50 per person to this fund (no corporate or PAC contributions allowed), to be used by the industry to support political candidates in important races across the state.
		There has not been a fatality at a Colorado coal mine in more than five years, and many of our companies have received awards from either the Mine Safety and Health Administration or the State of Colorado for outstanding safety practices.
	www.coloradomining.org (438 words)

	Gold Hill - Colorado Ghost Town
		Gold Hill was thought to be the first permanent mining camp in Colorado.
		Gold Hill suffered its worst fire in 1894.
		Gold Hill's second boom reached its peak around 1872 when tellurium was found.
	www.ghosttowns.com /states/co/goldhill.html (154 words)

	Gold Hill, Colorado
		Gold Hill was the site of the first gold discovery in the present state of Colorado.
		After the gold collected from placer mining (finding it in a stream or on the ground) was used up, the mine owners began to dig in the ground to find more gold.
		At the time (1859) Gold Hill was located in Nebraska Territory since it was located just North of the 40th parallel which was the dividing line between Colorado and Nebraska Territories.
	www.hollyhockfarms.com /coboulder/communities/goldhc.htm (426 words)

	Gold Hill Colorado Ghost town
		Gold Hill was the 1st permanent mining town in the Colorado Mountains.
		Gold was discovered here in 1859 and because of the numerous claim jumpers the Gold Hill area organized a mountain district with "Gold Hill Laws" in July of 1859.
		Interestingly any male or female the age of 16 or older could vote and the residence requirements required that you be living there for all of 10 days.
	www.rockymountainprofiles.com /Gold%20hill.htm (166 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Company explores reviving slice of Colorado's gold mining past
		DENVER &; A mine that helped launch the 1859 Colorado gold rush and helped part of the Colorado Rockies earn the title of the “Richest Square Mile on Earth” could be coming back to life, right on the edge of a multimillion-dollar gambling town.
		Casinos have replaced gold as the lure for visitors since 1990, when Colorado voters legalized limited-stakes gambling in 1990 in the old mining towns of Central City, neighboring Black Hawk and Cripple Creek.
		He remembers sitting in a bar, watching locals write the latest per-ounce gold price on a chalk board and listening to speculation about how high it would have to go before the mines started humming again.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20060330-1432-wst-minerevival.html (758 words)

	Hiking, Skiing,& Gold Rush History in the Colorado Mountains
		Hiking in Colorado, Gold Rush and Mining History in Colorado
		The mineral rush history is dynamic and colorful, enlivened by a parade of saints and sinners who marched across the early-day scene.
		Historian and hiker Mary Ellen Gilliland, a popular Colorado author, gives readers a gateway to the Colorado peak experience.
	www.alpenrosepress.com (256 words)

	Colorado Historic Sites - Gold Mines
		The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine offers historic underground mine tours as well as tours of the modern surface mine and ghost walk tours are offered in Cripple Creek.
		The American Eagles mine and surrounding area have been restored by the Cripple Creek/Victor Gold Mining Co.
		To Find Our Trails, Take U.S. Hwy 24 West from Colorado Springs; in Divide turn south on Hwy 67; turn left at the sign to Victor on Teller County Rd. 81.
	www.web-xpres.com /stcfgeagles.htm (548 words)

	Mining News, CCCMMA
		The mine contains the Bates vein of gold, the second lode discovered in Colorado, which helped spark the Colorado gold rush of the mid-1800s.
		After being shuttered for nearly 70 years, the historic Bates- Hunter gold mine in Central City is being resurrected by a Minneapolis company.
		Robust gold prices have prompted Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. to invest about $1.2 million over the next year to open the mine and start exploration for the precious metal.
	www.cccmma.com /news.htm (366 words)

	Colorado History: Books Search Results - your best source for Colorado History information, county, museums, ghost towns, mines, mining camps, and Colorado related books and videos
		Description: An accurate and well-written account of the development of Colorado's first mining community. Author, Mabel Guise Montgomery, was born in Gold Hill in 1885.
		Your Best Source for Colorado History information, ghost towns, mines, mining camps, railroads, stage stops, Doc Holliday, information about each county, museums, historical societies, Chambers of Commerce, and Colorado history related books and videos.
		Your Best Source for Colorado history, ghost towns, mines, mining camps, railroads, stage stops, Doc Holliday, counties, museums, historical societies, Chambers of Commerce, books, and videos.
	www.coloradohistory.com /singlebookdetail.asp?BookID=31 (449 words)

	The Colorado Mountain Ranch
		The Colorado Mountain Ranch is ¼ mile west of Gold Hill.
		Located in the foothills just above Boulder, near the historic mining town of Gold Hill, The Ranch provides majestic vistas of the Rocky Mountain Front Range in the day and twinkling lights of the Denver metropolitan area in the night.
		For over fifty years, The Colorado Mountain Ranch has shared fun, laughter, and good old Western hospitality with thousands of young and old alike.
	www.coloradomountainranch.com (260 words)

	HOME
		* Celecbrate Colorado's Colorful Mining History with The Sidekickers "Gold Rush Show", Music from 'Paint Your Wagon' and Can-Can girls.
		Let The Sidekickers sweep you back in time to Colorado's Gold Rush Days.
		Miners came to strike it rich by finding gold...
	home.earthlink.net /~weeds2 (219 words)

	Colorado mining camps, ghost towns, boomtowns, mines, mountain sight-seeing tours, four wheel drive trips, hiking trails, history videos, books
		Colorado mining camps, ghost towns, boomtowns, mines, mountain sight-seeing tours, four wheel drive trips, hiking trails, history videos, books
		Don't forget for more detailed information on any of these tours or other Colorado history topics, check out our selection of excellent Colorado History Books and Videos.
		The tours are broken into five regions -- click on each region of the map to zoom in, or select a specific tour from the menu to the left.
	www.miningcamps.com /ghosttown-tours.htm (226 words)

	Roderick Dhu Gold Mining Company - Gilpin County. Quartz Hill. Colorado 1903
		This historic document has an ornate gold border around it with a man and woman next to a wagon and cabin with mountains and a forest in the background.
		If you are publishing a book for educational purposes or with the press, please contact us directly at 703-787-3552 for use of our content.
		This item has the signatures of the Company’s President, L. Hammerstein and Secretary, Lansford F. Butler and is over 102 years old.
	www.bbod.com /rodhugomicod.html (261 words)

	Carlson Design portfolio T-shirts The Annual Gold Hill Tour de Rump
		Part mountain bike race, part treasure hunt, the Tour de Rump has become an institution in the old mining town of Gold Hill, Colorado.
		The race was started in 1989, a small affair spoofing Donald Trump's monomaniacal Tour de Trump.
	www.jeremycarlson.com /portfolio/rump.php (121 words)

	Colorado HikingTrails in Southern Colorado Near Pikes Peak
		his series of interpretive sites and trails is a project of the Southern Teller County Focus Group and is made possible with funding from the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining Company, and from a State Historical Fund Grant from the Colorado Historical Society.
		The brick foundations and grand hoist are the remains of the Woods’ gold mining empire - the legacy that built Victor, The City of Mines.
		In 1928, the Engineering and Mining Journal reported that the Joe Dandy mine was reopening under a lease to the Red Raven Gold Mining Co.and that an electric hoist had been purchased for the operation rather than utilizing a steam-driven hoist as was previously used.
	www.web-xpres.com /stcfgtrail.htm (1161 words)

	Colorado Creek Cripple
		Cripple Creek mining district, the great gold camp of Colorado / Cripple Creek mining district, the great gold camp of Colorado / Includes ill. LC Panoramic maps (2nd.
		Cripple Creek, Colorado: Government In The World's Greatest Gold Camp!
		Cripple Creek, Colorado, is one of three cities in Colorado approved for limited-stakes gambling.
	litair.com /LIT/colorado+creek+cripple.html (408 words)

	Wild Horse Publishing Presents the Western History Collection of Dave Southworth
		The Colorado Mining Camp Series is comprised of seven videos, each illustrating separate geographical areas in which the gold and silver boom took place.
		His specialties include the gold and silver mining boom and the lawlessness of the post-Civil War period.
		Journey with us as we step back in time to a most interesting period of Colorado history, the gold and silver era.
	oldwesthistory.com (408 words)

	Arthur Lakes Library
		Colorado was chiefly a producer of gold and silver, but large quantities of lead and zinc, along with lesser amounts of copper, were produced as by-products of the gold and silver mining.
		To facilitate the search for information on mines and mining districts in Colorado, I have assembled a selected list of references, by County.
		Mining activity has played a colorful and significant part in Colorado's history and information on these former mining areas is often sought for historic, economic, and environmental reasons.
	www.mines.edu /library/maproom/comining.html (425 words)

	Holabird Americana Auction #24 Archive
		One of the documents is particularly important, a deed from 1866 from the Manhattan Gold Mining Co. of Colorado to the Gregory Gold Mining Co of Colorado for property on the Fisk lode.
		Geology of the Cripple Creek Gold Mining District, Colorado, by Whitman Cross, Ph.D. and The Ore Deposits of Cripple Creek, Colorado, by R.H.F. Penrose, Jr.—Read before the Colorado Scientific Society in Denver, June 4, 1894.
		Rare 1863 Colorado Territory document signed by D. Collier as notary public with his oval stamp that states “Gilpin County, C. T.” In this case, the recorder was out of regular issue US adhesive revenue stamps and adhered a beautifully printed 2 cent black Scott 73 (A32) under Collier’s stamp.
	www.holabird.org /americana2002/archive/Auction24/CO.html (12046 words)

	Feature Article Page
		Cripple Creek was one of the few areas in Colorado where the gold mining industry had not yet made a major entrance.
		The mining background that Stratton had acquired led him to believe that Battle Mountain could well be a bonanza of gold ore. He knew that a new mine, the Portland, which was located close to his Independence, had very good prospects of also producing high-grade ore in large quantities.
		Stratton had a theory that somewhere in the "District" was the horn of plenty or as Stratton phrased it, "the wine goblet," from which all the gold ore had flowed.
	www.ghg.net /gpenning/special1.htm (1434 words)

	Newmont Mining Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Newmont Mining Corporation NYSE: NEM, based in Denver, Colorado, USA, is the world's largest producer of gold, with active mines in Canada, Bolivia, Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Turkey, Peru and Uzbekistan.
		And, in October of 1998, Newmont Mining and Newmont Gold merged, with Newmont Mining acquiring the remaining shares of Newmont Gold that were outstanding at that time.
		On January 1, 1994, Newmont Mining Corporation and Newmont Gold Company, combined assets to form a unified worldwide gold company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Newmont_Mining_Corporation (1824 words)

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