View of the abandoned Colorado Fluorspar Company Mine and mill on the 4UR ranch in Wagon Wheel Gap (Mineral County), Colorado. Shows a tailing pile, ore house and deteriorated wooden buildings. Corrugated metal buildings are next to the mill. Goose Creek is nearby.
Description
1 slide: color.
Is Part Of
Tom Noel photograph collection.; Tom Noel photograph collection, notebook Mineral County.;
Item Owned By
Auraria Library
Subject
4UR Ranch (Wagon Wheel, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Colorado Fluorspar Company Mine (Mineral County, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Wagon Wheel Gap (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Abandoned mines.; Mills.; Ore industry.; 4UR Ranch (Wagon Wheel, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Abandoned mines--Colorado--Wagon Wheel Gap--Pictorial works.; Ore-dressing plants--Colorado--Wagon Wheel Gap--Pictorial works.; Colorado Fluorspar Company Mine (Mineral County, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Wagon Wheel Gap (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
Format-Medium
Photograph
Source
Source: loan, Tom Noel, 2010.
Rights Contact Information
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Title and content derived from inventory prepared by Kathleen Barlow.; From inventory: "General William Jackson Palmer and the Denver & Rio Grande founded this resort [Wagon Wheel Gap Hot Springs]. The site also hosted a company town."; Scanned image from loaned collection.; R7001518153; Digitization sponsored by the Kenneth King Foundation.
