Climax Mine pit
dc.date | 1950? | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T05:56:44Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-03T09:25:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T05:56:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-03T09:25:25Z | |
dc.identifier | libimagesNMHFM574 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11124/10350 | |
dc.description | 250- CM 10-3-1950. | |
dc.description | Date scanned: 2001-09-05. | |
dc.description | Identifier: NMHFM-574. | |
dc.description | Unmounted; text on verso. | |
dc.description | Held in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum. | |
dc.description.abstract | Climax Mine, early pit picture. 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 in the early 1900s a syndicate formed in 1917 to open the Climax Mine, named for the railway station at the top of nearby Fremont Pass. The Mine, operated by the Climax Molybdenum Company, shipped its first ore in 1918. After a post-WWI shutdown, the Mine continued operations in 1924 and was one of the few US mines to operate through the Great Depression. Climax had its own ore processing facilities and a company town. By 1936 surface subsidence started to form the Climax Glory Hole, a result of 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, ... | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Sponsored by the Colorado State Library, the regional library systems of Colorado, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. | |
dc.publisher | Colorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library | |
dc.rights | Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html | |
dc.subject | Climax Molybdenum Company | |
dc.subject | Molybdenum mines and mining | |
dc.title | Climax Mine pit | |
dc.type | StillImage | |
dc.contributor.institution | Colorado Digitization Project | |
dc.contributor.institution | National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum |