Fast Company

This Colorado town wants to mine gold from waste

Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville—a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the Arkansas River basin more ...
Colorado Public Radio

Colorado mining town’s polluted legacy has a potential for profit, but some are wary of the risk

Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville — a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the Arkansas River basin ...
koaa

A plan to extract gold from mining waste splits a Colorado town with a legacy of pollution

LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville — a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the ...
Vail Daily

Climax Moly mine near Leadville to reopen

PHOENIX, Arizona Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX) announced today it plans to proceed with the restart of the Climax molybdenum mine near Leadville, Colorado. Construction employment will ...
The Denver Post

Cyanide won’t be used on Leadville mine waste in proposed gold extraction and cleanup project, company says

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A company that wants to extract gold from piles of decades-old mining waste outside Leadville no longer plans to use cyanide in its processes after hearing ...
Glenwood Springs Post Independent

Here’s how miners celebrated Thanksgiving a century ago in Colorado’s mountains

Well over 100 years ago, Colorado's early mining communities celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday in a fashion that most ...
Yahoo

Colorado mining town's polluted legacy has a potential for profit, but some are wary of the risk

LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville — a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the ...