CJK Milling plans to truck 1.2 million tons of mining waste piled east of Leadville to its mill on the southwestern side of town, where it will extract gold and silver from the waste. It wasn’t ...

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 ...

Leadville “wasn’t a town to be satisfied with doing things halfway,” Smith wrote. “Whether it was mining or dining, working or drinking, it tackled the business at hand with lusty frontier ...

An ice statue of Lady Leadville stood outside the front entrance, with one arm pointing to the region’s mining district. “Leadville, by her enterprise, has succeeded in turning even her ice ...

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Adam Steele used to eat high-level competitions for lunch. At Eden Prairie High School, Steele won back-to-back 400-meter dash state titles. At the University of Minnesota, he raced to the ...