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dc.date1937?
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:56:26Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T09:23:44Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:56:26Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T09:23:44Z
dc.identifierlibimagesNMHFM458
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11124/10199
dc.descriptionUnderground tool room - Climax Mine.
dc.descriptionDate scanned: 2001-08-22.
dc.descriptionIdentifier: NMHFM-458.
dc.descriptionUnmounted; text on front.
dc.descriptionHeld in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum.
dc.description.abstractThis postcard may be one of a series from the late 1930s, and the image may be of the toolroom on the Phillipson Level of the Climax Mine, take in 1937. The Climax Mine worked one of the largest molybdenum deposits in the world and extracted some 470 million tons of ore. Claims were staked on Bartlett Mountain, Colorado in 1879 for what was later (in 1895) identified as molybdenum ore. As a market for molybdenum developed, a syndicate formed in 1917 to open the Climax Mine. The Mine, operated by the Climax Molybdenum Company, shipped its first ore in 1918. Climax had its own ore processing facilities and a company town. The Climax Glory Hole was growing by 1936, the result of surface subsidence from the massive scale of underground block cave mining that eventually removed much of Bartlett Mountain. In 1958 the Climax Molybdenum Company became a division of American Metal Climax, Inc. The town of Climax was phased out in the early 1960s as workers moved to nearby mountain communities. Much of an adjacent stream valley was acquired by 1970 to replace existing tailings containment facilities and was progressively buried by Climax tailings. American Metal Climax, Inc. (AMAX) began developing an open pit on the site in 1972. AMAX merged with Cyprus Minerals Company in 1993 to become Cyprus-Amax Minerals Company and by 1994 the Climax Mine employed only a few workers for facilities maintenance and environmental work.
dc.description.sponsorshipSponsored by the Colorado State Library, the regional library systems of Colorado, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
dc.publisherColorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library
dc.rightsRights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html
dc.subjectClimax Molybdenum Company
dc.subjectMiners
dc.subjectMolybdenum mines and mining
dc.subjectMining
dc.subjectScenes, underground
dc.subjectUnderground mining
dc.titleClimax Mine, tool room
dc.typeStillImage
dc.contributor.institutionColorado Digitization Project
dc.contributor.institutionNational Mining Hall of Fame and Museum


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