Leadville, Colo ... Climax Molybdenum Co.’s Bartlett Mountain mine, which contains about 90% of the world’s known supply of molybdenum, was to be knocked down for its unpaid 1939 county ...

A company that wants to extract gold from piles of decades-old mining waste outside Leadville no longer plans ... especially in Colorado. … But if that’s all we had, that’s what we were ...

Another account calls the Ice Palace “a Colossus in the Colorado ... Leadville “wasn’t a town to be satisfied with doing things halfway,” Smith wrote. “Whether it was mining or dining ...

In January 1896, one of the largest new buildings in Colorado ... ice statue of Lady Leadville stood outside the front entrance, with one arm pointing to the region’s mining district.

Leadville is about 100 miles west of Denver and 160 miles from Fort Collins. This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: Free shuttle from historic mining town to Colorado ski ...