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"The Frontier Historical Society Jeep caravan at the Little Annie Mine on July 27, 1969." -- verso
The Little Annie Mine is in Little Annie Basin (backside of Aspen Mountain).
"From 1882 through the 1940s, various silver-mining groups struggled there. ... In the 1960s and ’70s, two ski area developments in the basin failed. By the 1990s, landowners there cobbled together mining claims and threatened to build massive homes unless the county bought...
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One entrance to the Lady Belle Mine on Horse Mountain. The distinctive cedars on the hillside are markers found in other photographs of the area.
The Lady Belle Mine, "discovered in 1912, was a relatively limited pocket of ore that kept miners busy for only a short time. The mine operated until 1918, and although it never lived up to expectation of the local community, historical sources report the Lady Belle produced anywhere from $450,000 to $1...
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Red Cliff, Colorado, showing the portion of Horn Silver Mountain where Greiner and DaLee made their first silver strike. The old dump is marked with an X.
