Lawsuit leads to financial troubles, before fire fries flotation mill.
Tag: Aspen mining history
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Pioneer pluck in Hunter Creek
After meeting the man who’d earlier laid out the claim at the top of today’s Little Nell where the first silver ore outcroppings were discovered, Staats eyed straight across to Smuggler where the same lime and silver had surfaced. By his reckoning, rich claims should be found in Hunter Creek.
Posted inHistory, Water
Big bore in hard times
Aspen locals in 1930 welcomed the work on a big dam-and-tunnel project on Independence Pass, but the community grew to miss the water in the river.
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Dewatering the Smuggler Mountain mines
The object of multiple dives between October 1910 and January 1911 into the debris-clogged mine was to rebuild the pump at the bottom of the Free Silver shaft on the 12th level.
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The rich life of Aspen Mountain miner Billy Zaugg
The last miner to live on Aspen Mountain, his life bridged the eras of mining and skiing
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Aspen’s first international ski race in 1950: true grit versus miners’ mess
Tough terrain scarred by mining era tests ski racing elite at the 1950 FIS Alpine World Championships on Aspen Mountain
Posted inHistory, Land Use, Wealth and Property
Portal into time: Mine owner wants to preserve Aspen Mountain history
The Compromise Mine on Aspen Mountain is the site of a historic reckoning between populists and Gilded Age capitalists