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Primos Chemical Company's tungsten concentrating plant
Brown, Norton Arthur Lakes Library Colorado Digitization Project Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
Brown, Norton
Arthur Lakes Library
Colorado Digitization Project
Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
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1908?-1925?
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The photograph shows four separate views of the Primos Chemical Company's tungsten concentrating plant in Lakewood, which was located five miles north of Nederland. The mill was built in 1908 and was the largest tungsten mill in the world at the time. Demand for tungsten during World War I created a mining boom. Hundreds of prospectors swarmed the areas around Nederland looking for tungsten deposits. By 1917 demand for tungsten produced in the United States had slowed, and Nederland's tungsten activity came to a halt. The Primos Chemical Company concentrating plant was torn down sometime during the 1920s.
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