Colorado Mining

Location: State of Colorado
Surnames/tags: Disasters Mining_Disasters colorado

Colorado Mining is the History, Information, and Resource page for the State of Colorado in the United States, in the North America Region of the subproject Worldwide Mining Disasters Project of the Worldwide Disasters project.

It includes a list of disasters linking the DISASTER PAGES. The Disaster Pages include a list of those killed and injured from which individual miner profiles may be created and honored or memorials added to those profiles existing on WikiTree.

Contents 1 Worst Mining Disasters in Colorado 2 Strikes and Altercations 3 Project Template, Memorial Stickers & Categories 4 Museums/Memorials in Colorado 5 Resources and "Read More About It" 6 Genealogy Information 7 Sources 8 To DO

Worst Mining Disasters in Colorado

Colorado Mining Disasters

Date	Mine	Location	No. Killed	Industry	Disaster Cause	County
27-Apr-1917	Hastings 1917	Hastings, CO	121	Coal	Explosion	Las Animas
8-Nov-1910	Victor American No. 3	Delagua, CO	79	Coal	Explosion/Fire	Las Animas
31-Jan-1910	Primero 1910	Primero, CO	75	Coal	Explosion	Las Animas
24-Jan-1884	Crested Butte	Crested Butte, CO	59	Coal	Explosion	Gunnison
8-Oct-1910	Starkville	Starkville, CO	56	Coal	Explosion	Las Animas
18-Feb-1896	Vulcan 1896	New Castle, CO	49	Coal	Explosion	Garfield
16-Dec-1913	Vulcan 1913	New Castle, CO	37	Coal	Explosion	Garfield
27-Jan-1942	Wadge	Mount Harris, CO	34	Coal	Explosion	Routt
20-Nov-1901	Smuggler-Union	Pandora, CO	31	Gold/Silver	Fire	San Miguel
23-Jan-1907	Primero 1907	Primero, CO	24	Coal	Explosion	Las Animas
10-Jan-1893	Como	King, CO	24	Coal	Explosion	Park
28-Oct-1904	Tercio	Tercio, CO	19	Coal	Explosion	Las Animas
18-Aug-1919	Oakview	La Veta, CO	18	Coal	Explosion	Huerfano
22-Apr-1906	Cuatro	Tercio, CO	18	Coal	Explosion	Las Animas
24-Mar-1922	Sopris	Sopris, CO	17	Coal	Explosion	Las Animas
9-Feb-1911	Cokedale	Trinidad, CO	17	Coal	Explosion	Las Animas
15-Apr-1981	Dutch Creek No. 1 1981	Redstone, CO	15	Coal	Explosion	Pitkin
26-Jan-1904	Independence	Victor, CO	14	Gold	Cage Accident	Teller
29-Aug-1895	Sleepy Hollow	Sleepy Hollow, CO	14	Gold	Flood	San Juan
19-Feb-1906	Maitland	Walsenburg, CO	14	Coal	Explosion	Huerfano
7-Aug-1902	Bowen	Bowen, CO	13	Coal	Explosion	Las Animas
31-Mar-1919	Empire	Aguilar, CO	13	Coal	Explosion	Las Animas
18-Jun-1912	Hastings 1912	Hastings, CO	12	Coal	Explosion	Las Animas
3-Sep-1897	Sunshine	Sunshine, CO	12	Coal	Explosion	Boulder
9-Sep-1889	White Ash	Greeley, CO	11	Coal	Inundation	Weld
13-Nov-1885	Bull Domingo	Silver Cliff, CO	10	Gold/Silver	Explosion	Custer
5-May-1923	Southwestern	Aguilar, CO	10	Coal	Explosion	Las Animas
11-Dec-1910	Leyden	Leyden, CO	10	Coal	Fire	Jefferson and Adams
28-Dec-1965	Dutch Creek No. 1 1965	Redstone, CO	9	Coal	Explosion	Pitkin
6-Jul-1909	Toller	Tollerville, CO	9	Coal	Explosion	Las Animas
4-Jan-1896	Anna Lee	Victor, CO	8	Gold	Cave-in	Teller
9-Jan-1942	Pride of the West	Silverton, CO	8	Gold/Silver	Asphyxiation	San Juan
20-Jan-1936	Monarch No. 2	Broomfield, CO	8	Coal	Explosion	Broomfield
27-May-1927	Delagua No. 3	Delagua, CO	7	Coal	Explosion	Las Animas
4-Jun-1908	Gold King	Gladstone, CO	6	Gold	Fire	San Juan
7-Jun-1930	Climax	Lake County, CO	6	Lead/Molybdenum	Cave-in	Lake
16-Sep-1901	Spring Gulch	Spring Gulch, CO	6	Coal	Explosion	Pitkin
26-Sep-1895	Belgian	Leadville, CO	6	Gold	Explosion	Lake
7-Oct-1923	Midwest	Palisades, CO	6	Coal	Explosion	Mesa
13-Dec-1921	Satanic	Morrison, CO	6	Coal	Fire	Jefferson
19-May-1907	Engleville	Engleville, CO	5	Coal	Fire	Las Animas
12-Feb-1921	Moffatt	Oak Creek, CO	5	Coal	Explosion	Routt

Strikes and Altercations

• Ludlow Massacre

• Coalfield War 1913-1914

Project Template, Memorial Stickers & Categories

The Worldwide Mining Disasters Project Template is used on this page and the Individual Disaster Pages and is not used on individual person profiles.

The Memorial Stickers and Categories to use for individual profiles appear on the Individual Disaster Pages linked above.

Museums/Memorials in Colorado

There is one premier mining museum in the US located in Colorado, The National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum

The museum's website is Mining Hall of Fame

For more interesting info on the museum: National Mining Museum

Other interesting mining museums in Colorado:

• Western Museum of Mining and Industry - Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Western Museum of Mining and Industry - Guided tours, interactive exhibits, educational events. Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Resources and "Read More About It"

• This is a letter from miners from England who went to the silver mines in Colorado

Genealogy Information

Sources

• Colorado Mining Disasters
• CDC Mining Disasters

To DO

• Complete page/resources already collected.
• Adopt/Complete Disaster Page[s] adding/using sources already collected. Please contact the profile managers above for the list