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68flh
location:
Longmont, Colorado
Gender: Male
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< on 3/23/2009 4:56 PM >
|  | | | I was thinking about going back to this place with a better camera...it's about a two-mile hike back to the house. There are a lot of cool things in that area, and I've never seen anyone else while I was back there... 
(Northwestern Boulder county, Colorado)
1. Uranium mine -filled in
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2. Marker at mine
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3. Mine tailings
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4. Car on old ranch - sweet!
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5. Car again
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6. Engine - not very rusty
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7. First view of old ranch
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8. Outbuilding
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9. Main house
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10. Main house
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11. Inside
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12. It's better to burn out...
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13. V-8 Flattie
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Quarantine
  
location:
Denver
Gender: Female
retired former old-school UE'er
| | Re: Colorado ranch / car / uranium mine
<Reply # 1 on 3/23/2009 9:32 PM >
| | | | Cool location! Thanks for sharing.
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EatsTooMuchJam
  
location:
Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Squirty "Stickybuns" von Cherrypants
| |  |  |  |  | Re: Colorado ranch / car / uranium mine
<Reply # 2 on 3/23/2009 9:56 PM >
| | | | Crazy - the uranium tailings pile I saw was a bit more orderly - and marked as being radioactive.
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away."
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TheDuke335
| | Re: Colorado ranch / car / uranium mine
<Reply # 3 on 3/23/2009 10:08 PM >
| | | | I don't think that is a uranium mine . It looks like an old prospect hole for tungsten. They didn't mine much uranium around Boulder . The uranium stuff was along the Dakota hog back near Golden. There was also a few Iron prospects around boulder and Louisvillie but not much was ever found most of that was done in the 1930's ( a lot of coal mining in that area too) .
P.S. I live in Longmont we should meet up sometime 68!
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altaria
location:
Austin, TX
Gender: Female
| | Re: Colorado ranch / car / uranium mine
<Reply # 4 on 3/23/2009 10:38 PM >
| | | | Great find! I love old ranches like this!
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68flh
location:
Longmont, Colorado
Gender: Male
| | Re: Colorado ranch / car / uranium mine
<Reply # 5 on 3/24/2009 12:21 AM >
| | | | Posted by TheDuke335
I don't think that is a uranium mine . It looks like an old prospect hole for tungsten.
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The Mineral Resources Data System lists it as the "Bat No. 1" claim. The primary commodity mined there was copper, and the secondary commodity was uranium.
People in the valley below can't drink their well water because of the massive amounts of radon in it.
There are a couple other sites in the Lyons and Boulder area where uranium or pitchblende was mined...
I found that and a lot of other good information at http://tin.er.usgs.gov/
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