Terrible Mine and Works, Brownsville
dc.date | 1870?-1890? | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T05:57:24Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-03T09:27:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T05:57:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-03T09:27:04Z | |
dc.identifier | libimagesSC129 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11124/9874 | |
dc.description | Collier's Rocky Mountain Scenery. Published at Central City Colorado. | |
dc.description | No.164. Clear Creek Series. - Terrible Mine and Works, Brownsville. One of the most successful mines in Colorado, yielding a silver product of over $250,000 a year--Verso. | |
dc.description | Date scanned: 2000-09-23. | |
dc.description | Identifier: SC129. | |
dc.description | Mounted on cardboard; text on front and verso. | |
dc.description | Held in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines. | |
dc.description.abstract | Stereopair showing the Terrible Mine and works in Brownsville, Clear Creek County, Colorado. Brownsville was established in the mid 1860s, when silver was discovered in Brown, Cherokee, and Willehan gulches, tributaries of Clear Creek. At its height, Brownsville had a population of about 600 people. The Terrible Mine was located on Brown Mountain and owned by the Colorado United Mining Company. The Terrible was one of the larger mines in the area and usually employed between 150 and 200 men. The company processed its ores on site at their mill located on South Clear Creek. The mill recovered 100 to 500 ounces of silver per ton of rock processed, and it paid for its building cost in the first year. During the 1870s, the Terrible Mill was one of the two largest and most efficient concentrating mills in Clear Creek County. In 1895, Brownsville was partially buried by a mud and rockslide that came down Brown Gulch from the Seven Thirty and other mines. No one was killed | |
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 | Colorado United Mining Company | |
dc.subject | Mine buildings | |
dc.subject | Silver mines and mining | |
dc.subject | Silver ore processing plants | |
dc.subject | Underground mining | |
dc.title | Terrible Mine and Works, Brownsville | |
dc.type | StillImage | |
dc.contributor.institution | Arthur Lakes Library | |
dc.contributor.institution | Collier's Rocky Mountain Scenery | |
dc.contributor.institution | Colorado Digitization Project | |
dc.contributor.institution | Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive |