Download or read book Leadville written by Gillian Klucas and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2004-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadville explores the clash between a small mining town high up in Colorado's Rocky Mountains and the federal government, determined to clean up the toxic mess left from a hundred years of mining. Set amidst the historic streets and buildings reflecting the town's past glory as one of the richest nineteenth-century mining districts in North America-a history populated with characters such as Meyer Guggenheim and the Titanic's unsinkable Molly Brown-the Leadville Gillian Klucas portrays became a battleground in the 1980s and 1990s. The tale begins one morning in 1983 when a flood of toxic mining waste washes past the Smith Ranch and down the headwaters of the Arkansas River. The event presages a Superfund cleanup campaign that draws national attention, sparks local protest, and triggers the intervention of an antagonistic state representative. Just as the Environmental Protection Agency comes to town telling the community that their celebrated mining heritage is a public health and environmental hazard, the mining industry abandons Leadville, throwing the town into economic chaos. Klucas unveils the events that resulted from this volatile formula and the remarkable turnaround that followed. The author's well-grounded perspective, in-depth interviews with participants, and keen insights make Leadville a portrait vivid with characterizations that could fill the pages of a novel. But because this is a real story with real people, It shows the reality behind the Western mystique and explores the challenges to local autonomy and community identity brought by a struggle for economic survival, unyielding government policy, and long-term health consequences induced by extractive-industry practices. The proud Westerners of Leadville didn't realize they would be tangling with a young and vigorous Environmental Protection Agency in a modern-day version of an old Western standoff. In the process, Klucas shows, both sides would be forced to address hard questions about identity and the future with implications that reach far beyond Leadville and the beautiful high valley that nurtures it.
Download or read book Geology and Ore Deposits of the Leadville Mining District Colorado written by Samuel Franklin Emmons and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quarterly of the Colorado School of Mines written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mountains of Silver written by P. David Smith and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little over a century ago, the Red Mountain Mining District in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado was the scene of a "silver rush" with an output of precious metals second in Colorado only to that of Leadville. In a period of less than twenty-five years, more than thirty million dollars in silver, lead, zinc, copper, and gold were taken from the rich deposits in the mines along Red Mountain Divide -- an amount roughly equivalent to a quarter billion of today's dollars. The histories of the communities that sprang into being with these mines, the railroads constructed to service them, and the men and women who lived, worked and died in them, are the threads deftly woven into the richly textured story of Mountains of Silver. It is a colorful and varied tapestry that depicts the lives of prospectors who made the first rich strikes; the land promoters, speculators, and road-and-railroad builders who capitalized on the frenzied rush to the area; and the motley collection of miners, lawyers, merchants, prostitutes, saloonkeepers, and freighters who attempted to profit from the boom.
Download or read book Geology and Ore Deposits of the Alma District Park County Colorado written by Horace Bushnell Patton and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finding Gold in Colorado Prospector s Edition written by Kevin Singel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.)Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work.Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado.
Download or read book Sugar Loaf and St Kevin Mining Districts Lake County Colorado written by Quentin Dreyer Singewald and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mining the Summit written by H. Stanley Dempsey and published by . This book was released on 1986-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorado's Ten Mile Mining District was north of Leadville and south of Copper Mountain. Sandwiched between two mountain ranges, fully two miles above sea level, the district had a remarkable history that was a microcosm of the mining West. Although Ten Mile's history and situation were unique, the district reflected developments throughout Colorado and the mining West. Each new discovery triggered a larger-scale mobilization of capital and labor, the use of more advanced technology, and the ongoing development of the infrastructure needed to support mining. Such themes characterized American mining during the century covered in this fascinating book.
Download or read book Geology of the Aspen Mining District Colorado with Atlas written by Josiah Edward Spurr and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geology and Ore Deposits of the Breckenridge Mining District Colorado written by Thomas Seward Lovering and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biennial Report of the Bureau of Mines of the State of Colorado for the Years written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geology and Ore Deposits of the Magdalena Mining District New Mexico written by Gerald Francis Loughlin and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leadville written by Edward Blair and published by Westwinds Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only full-length book of its kind, Leadville: Colorado's Magic City ? is a highly readable, well-researched people's history filled with the lore and magic that made Leadvill great.
Download or read book List of U S Geological Survey Geologic and Water supply Reports and Maps for Colorado written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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