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dc.date1935?-1955?
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:56:28Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T09:22:58Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:56:28Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T09:22:58Z
dc.identifierlibimagesNMHFM465
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11124/10207
dc.descriptionMaking mud dummies in 110 primer magazine, Climax Mine.
dc.descriptionDate scanned: 2001-08-22.
dc.descriptionIdentifier: NMHFM-465.
dc.descriptionUnmounted; text on front.
dc.descriptionHeld in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum.
dc.description.abstractThe miner in the image is making "mud dummies." A mud dummy may be another name for a stemming cartridge, which was a cartridge filled with an inert mud-like substance. These cartridges were used to help confine the explosives in each blast hole, causing the rock being blasted to break more efficiently. 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.subjectBlasting
dc.subjectMiners
dc.subjectMolybdenum mines and mining
dc.subjectScenes, underground
dc.subjectUnderground mining
dc.titleClimax Mine, making mud dummies
dc.typeStillImage
dc.contributor.institutionColorado Digitization Project
dc.contributor.institutionNational Mining Hall of Fame and Museum


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