Climax, view of tailings pond and trestle (?)
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The image shows what appears to be a tailings pond at Climax and a trestle supporting a trough to carry tailings slurry from the mill to the pond. The Climax Mine worked one of the largest molybdenum deposits in the world and extracted some 470 million tons of ore. Claims were staked on Bartlett Mountain, Colorado in 1879 for what was later (in 1895) identified as molybdenum ore. As a market for molybdenum developed, a syndicate formed in 1917 to open the Climax Mine. The Mine, operated by the Climax Molybdenum Company, shipped its first ore in 1918. Climax had its own ore processing facilities ...
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