Idarado Mine
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The Idarado Mine was a mining operation in the San Juan Mountains of Ouray County, Colorado near the now-ghost town of Guston, producing primarily lead, zinc and silver along with small amounts of gol
Idarado Mine trestle
Mine waste, below the Yankee Girl mine on Red Mountain No. 2 near Guston.
Gold in quartz and sphalerite, detail of historic slabbed ore specimen from the Idarado Mine, collected in 1927.
San Juan Mountains
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The San Juan Mountains are a high and rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. The area is highly mineralized and figured in the gold and silv
Uncompahgre Peak
San Juans in the fall of 2008, viewed from north of Durango
Sneffels Range viewed from Ridgway, Colorado
Red Mountain Pass