Mary Murphy Gold Mining Co. - dated 1909 Colorado Mining Stock Certificate - Great History!
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Mining scene vignette by Smith Brooks Ptg. Co., Denver. This operation was located in Chaffee County in the Chalk Creek Mining District, Colorado. This was the most important mine in the district. It is located on the southwest side of Chrysolite Mountain two mile south of St. Elmo at an elevation of over 10,000 feet. According to legend, a grateful miner named it after the nurse who restored him to health. The mine was discovered in 1879 and a mill was built in 1886. The mine was worked to a depth of 2,000 feet with seven miles of underground workings, and produced gold, silver, zinc, lead and copper. The whole Murphy family had claims or locations named after them - the Pat Murphy Claim was next to the Mary Murphy and the Murphy Switch was on the Denver 7 South Park Railroad. The first incorporation of the mine was in 1880 on the Pat and Mary Murphy veins. Quarter inch pink rhombs of Rhodochrosite of gem quality were found in the mine. Available in Red or Brown. Please specify color.
The Mary Murphy Mine was the principal gold mine of the Chalk Creek mining district of Chaffee County, Colorado, United States, near St. Elmo, Colorado. The Mary Murphy Mine operated continuously from 1870 to 1925, and produced 220 thousand ounces of gold, worth $4.4 million then (or about $180,000,000 in 2008), plus considerable silver, lead, and zinc. There were two aerial tramways connecting the mine to Romley, Colorado and the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad. In 1984 the Historic American Engineering Record recorded the structures then standing in the area.
Drainage from the old mine into Chalk Creek, a tributary of the Upper Arkansas River, would sometimes cause fish kills at Chalk Cliffs Rearing Unit, the state-run fish hatchery downstream, such as the kill of 800,000 fingerling trout in 1986. The Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology consolidated all of the surface wastes and capped them in a “high-and-dry” spot on the mill site. This reduced the dissolved metals levels enough to keep the fish kills from recurring. Since then, the site has been used as test-bed for new ways to treat harmful drainage from abandoned mines in the Colorado Rockies. The Mary Murphy Mine is a popular destination for four-wheelers and ghost-town enthusiasts. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Murphy_Mine
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