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Climax mine

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The Climax mine, located in Climax, Colorado, United States, is a major molybdenum mine in Lake and Summit counties, Colorado. [1]

43 relations: Acid mine drainage, Aplite, Bureau of Land Management, Cassiterite, Climax, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado Silver Boom, Empire, Colorado, Freeport-McMoRan, Fremont Pass (Colorado), Frisco, Colorado, Froth flotation, Hübnerite, Henderson molybdenum mine, Jet engine, Lake County, Colorado, Leadville, Colorado, List of molybdenum mines, Molybdenite, Molybdenum, Molybdenum mining in the United States, Ohio State University, Porphyritic, Porphyry (geology), Porphyry copper deposit, Pyrite, Quartz monzonite, Questa, New Mexico, Reservoir, Rhyolite, Slurry, Stockwork, Subduction, Summit County, Colorado, Surfactant, Tailings, Tin, Tungsten, Turbine, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Forest Service, Ute people, World War I.

Acid mine drainage

Acid mine drainage, acid and metalliferous drainage (AMD), or acid rock drainage (ARD) is the outflow of acidic water from metal mines or coal mines.

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Aplite

Aplite is an intrusive igneous rock in which the mineral composition is the same as granite, but in which the grains are much finer, under 1 mm across.

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Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior that administers more than of public lands in the United States which constitutes one-eighth of the landmass of the country.

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Cassiterite

Cassiterite is a tin oxide mineral, SnO2.

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Climax, Colorado

Climax was an unincorporated mining village and a former U.S. Post Office located in Lake County, Colorado, United States.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Colorado Silver Boom

The Colorado Silver Boom was a dramatic expansionist period of silver mining activity in the U.S. state of Colorado in the late 19th century.

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Empire, Colorado

The historic Town of Empire is a Statutory Town located in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States.

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Freeport-McMoRan

Freeport-McMoRan Inc., (FMCG) often called Freeport, is a mining company based in the Freeport-McMoRan Center, in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Fremont Pass (Colorado)

Fremont Pass is a mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States.

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Frisco, Colorado

The Town of Frisco is a Home Rule Municipality in Summit County, Colorado, United States.

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Froth flotation

Froth flotation is a process for selectively separating hydrophobic materials from hydrophilic.

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Hübnerite

Hübnerite or hubnerite is a mineral consisting of manganese tungsten oxide (chemical formula: MnWO4, it isn't a tungstate).

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Henderson molybdenum mine

The Henderson molybdenum mine is a large underground molybdenum mine west of the town of Empire in Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA.

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Jet engine

A jet engine is a type of reaction engine discharging a fast-moving jet that generates thrust by jet propulsion.

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Lake County, Colorado

Lake County is one of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Leadville, Colorado

Leadville is the statutory city that is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Lake County, Colorado, United States.

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List of molybdenum mines

This list of molybdenum mines is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and planned mines that have substantial molybdenum output, organized by country.

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Molybdenite

Molybdenite is a mineral of molybdenum disulfide, MoS2.

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Molybdenum

Molybdenum is a chemical element with symbol Mo and atomic number 42.

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Molybdenum mining in the United States

Molybdenum mining in the United States produced 65,500 metric tons of molybdenum in 2014, worth US$1.8 billion.

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Ohio State University

The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or OSU, is a large, primarily residential, public university in Columbus, Ohio.

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Porphyritic

Porphyritic is an adjective used in geology, specifically for igneous rocks, for a rock that has a distinct difference in the size of the crystals, with at least one group of crystals obviously larger than another group.

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Porphyry (geology)

Porphyry is a textural term for an igneous rock consisting of large-grained crystals such as feldspar or quartz dispersed in a fine-grained silicate rich, generally aphanitic matrix or groundmass.

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Porphyry copper deposit

Porphyry copper deposits are copper orebodies that are formed from hydrothermal fluids that originate from a voluminous magma chamber several kilometers below the deposit itself.

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Pyrite

The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron(II) disulfide).

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Quartz monzonite

Quartz monzonite or adamellite is an intrusive, felsic, igneous rock that has an approximately equal proportion of orthoclase and plagioclase feldspars.

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Questa, New Mexico

Questa is a village in Taos County, New Mexico, United States.

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Reservoir

A reservoir (from French réservoir – a "tank") is a storage space for fluids.

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Rhyolite

Rhyolite is an igneous, volcanic rock, of felsic (silica-rich) composition (typically > 69% SiO2 – see the TAS classification).

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Slurry

A slurry is a thin sloppy mud or cement or, in extended use, any fluid mixture of a pulverized solid with a liquid (usually water), often used as a convenient way of handling solids in bulk.

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Stockwork

In geology, a stockwork is a complex system of structurally controlled or randomly oriented veins.

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Subduction

Subduction is a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle.

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Summit County, Colorado

Summit County is one of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Surfactant

Surfactants are compounds that lower the surface tension (or interfacial tension) between two liquids, between a gas and a liquid, or between a liquid and a solid.

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Tailings

Tailings, also called mine dumps, culm dumps, slimes, tails, refuse, leach residue or slickens, terra-cone (terrikon), are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (gangue) of an ore.

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Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from stannum) and atomic number 50.

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Tungsten

Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with symbol W (referring to wolfram) and atomic number 74.

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Turbine

A turbine (from the Latin turbo, a vortex, related to the Greek τύρβη, tyrbē, meaning "turbulence") is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.

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United States Forest Service

The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass.

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Ute people

Ute people are Native Americans of the Ute tribe and culture and are among the Great Basin classification of Indigenous People.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax_mine

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