Red Mountain Mining

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• In 1819 Colorado has achieved state hood,native hunters and travelers encountered a dust that stained all that had came in the storms way.
• What had stained the mountains was a red powdery dust.
• The red powdery dust was the residue of hematite witch is a type of iron ore.

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• In 1890 deposits of copper ore and gold where found on the side of the mountain.
• The gold they found was a rock that had gold veins on the boundary of the rock.

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• Who founded red mountain mining was frank Glimmer and John T.Milern
• They had a commercial of them finding it in the late 1860s.

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• What they did for fun back then was mine for gold.
• They mined for gold on the side of the mountain in a cave.

HOW OLD ARE THE RED MOUNTAINS

• The mountains are approximately 196 years to 193 old.
• The day the mountains were discovered the people had no name for the mountain.

HOW DID THEY GET TO THE RED MOUNTAINS.

• What they used for transportation was a wagon and a train.
• If the people could not afford rides to the red mountain mining they would ask for a red.

URLS

• Red mountain mining.org/history/the-story-of-red-mountain-mining
• En.m.wikipedia.org
• Ocs.fortlewis.edu/red mountain project/mining history.asp
• Red mountain mining.org
• Colorado preservation.org/programs/endangered-places.

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