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Colorado School of Mines Experimental Mine, mine locomotive
Arthur Lakes Library Colorado Digitization Project Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive Colorado School of Mines
Arthur Lakes Library
Colorado Digitization Project
Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
Colorado School of Mines
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1963
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Photograph of the entrance to the CSM Experimental Mine (Edgar Mine) showing eight CSM faculty, students and visitors, grouped around a Mine-o-motive. The Mine-o-motive is a mine locomotive used to move ore cars in the Edgar. The Edgar Mine in Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County, Colorado produced high grade silver and gold, lead and copper in the 1870s. The Big Five Mining Company leased the property to the Colorado School of Mines for educational purposes in 1921. The School eventually acquired the Mine and additional workings to develop the Colorado School of Mines Experimental Mine as an underground classroom for engineering education and as a research facility. The Edgar's workings include the Miami Tunnel, the Edgar Shaft following the old Edgar vein, and the Big Five Tunnel.
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