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Leadville mine

Leadville mine, United States, underground, mining silver, lead, gold, zinc, copper.

Why Leadville is famous

Placer gold in the early 1860s led to the Fryer Hill silver-lead discovery in 1877. Population peaked in 1880. Nearby Climax came online in 1917.1,2,3

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Timeline

  1. summer 1858 to 1859Pikes Peak (Colorado) gold rush5
  2. 1878 to 1879Leadville silver boom4

Leadville today

Where silver is mined todayWhere lead is mined todayWhere gold is mined todayWhere zinc is mined todayWhere copper is mined todayMining in United States

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People

Owned byHorace TaborHis one-third share of Little Pittsburg bought the Matchless.6Worked hereElizabeth 'Baby Doe' TaborThirty years in a shack beside a flooded silver mine.7Worked hereMargaret 'Molly' BrownA mine engineer's share award made a Leadville couple rich.8Financed byDavid MoffatA railroad builder who put money into Leadville's Little Pittsburg mine.9Owned byJoseph R. De LamarA Dutch-born sea captain who bought a Leadville lead mine.10

Events

Came out ofPikes Peak (Colorado) gold rushPlacer gold in the early 1860s led to the Fryer Hill silver-lead strike of 1877.1Led toLeadville silver boomRead what happened near Leadville: Leadville silver boom.1

Places

Located inLeadvilleLeadville sits at Leadville.1

Sources

  1. Colorado metals history Colorado Geological Survey
  2. Temple Israel, Leadville US National Park Service
  3. Wikidata entity Q286702
  4. Leadville Colorado Encyclopedia
  5. Colorado Gold Rush Colorado Encyclopedia
  6. Augusta Tabor Colorado Encyclopedia
  7. Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor Colorado Encyclopedia
  8. Margaret Brown Colorado Encyclopedia
  9. David H. Moffat Colorado Encyclopedia
  10. 2023 Inductees from Mining's Past Mining Foundation of the Southwest

Pictures on this page: Horace Austin Warner Tabor - Brady-Handy.jpg, Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy (Public domain).

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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