Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LEADVILLE — Millions of tons of waste from decades-old mining operations sit in the hills east of town. The brown and orange piles of abandoned ore rise 30 ...

Historically, the mining industry has not given its towns a second chance. When ore runs out or metal prices head south, as both always do, the industry waves good-bye and leaves mining towns to ...

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 ...

LEADVILLE – News of the reopening of the Climax Molybdenum Mine is bringing back hope to a town that had been desolate and somewhat lost since the initial closure more than 20 years ago.Phelps Dodge ...

It takes strength and sinew to go far in the mining business. Robert Kendrick epitomized that grit. Kendrick, a lifelong Leadville local and pioneering leader at Climax Molybdenum mine for decades, ...

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 ...

And other features, at a conceptual level now, could make the Black Cloud the premier mine tour in Colorado. Even though the Black Cloud is not old by mining standards, its preservation could still ...

LEADVILLE — The 125-year-old wooden headframe of Matchless Mine is in danger of collapsing, but the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum is trying to save the iconic structure — the last remaining ...