Other companies in Colorado are also testing the ... Michael hopes that the Leadville project will show that cleaning up mine waste can yield a profit and encourage others to pursue similar ...

LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado ...

"We just have to wait," said Dan Jensen, owner of the fixed-base operation, acknowledging the difficulty of getting off the ground in Leadville - for both planes and businesses. Ever since the Climax ...

Another account calls the Ice Palace “a Colossus in the Colorado Rockies ... that also foretold Leadville’s tourism future. “Very early on, it was very much a mining town,” Brokaw ...

By 1880, Leadville had the second largest population in Colorado and it was among the ... one of the first Leadville millionaires, and mine owner J.J. Brown, husband of Margaret Brown who later ...