This Leadville, Colo., gem enjoys nationwide support. It seems fitting the nation’s only federally chartered mining museum is in Leadville, Colorado. After all, by the end of the Civil War prospectors had extracted $5 million in gold from nearby California Gulch. A decade later, when carbonates proved rich in silver, more prospectors swarmed the area. …
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