CJK Milling plans to truck 1.2 million tons of mining waste piled east of Leadville to its mill on the southwestern side of town, where it will extract gold and silver from the waste. It wasn’t ...

Now, nearly three-quarters of its working population travels each day over Fremont Pass to the Summit County ski resorts or over Tennessee Pass to Vail, returning each night because housing in ...

An ice statue of Lady Leadville stood outside the front entrance, with one arm pointing to the region’s mining district. “Leadville, by her enterprise, has succeeded in turning even her ice ...