Mining in Colorado : a history of discovery, development and production

این منبع از بخش «High Confidence اولیه» مرحله 11A پذیرفته شد. سطح C و امتیاز 68 بر اساس پروتکل ارتباط با مس، معدن، مواد معدنی حیاتی و مدیریت/سیاست‌گذاری معدن تعیین شد. دلیل پذیرش: تاریخ توسعه و تولید معدن؛ منبع پشتیبان.

In 1833 a party of trappers from Taos, N. Mex., camped on Dolores River near Trout Lake about 13 miles northeast of the present site of Rico 2 but apparently paid no attention to mineral deposits. Gold is said to have been discovered near the site of Lake City about i848 by a member of the Fremont party, but no one has been able to identify the place or even the stream from which the first gold was panned. 3 • The explorations of the geologis.ts of the Hayden, W~eeler, King, and Powell surveys, and later of the• U~ted States Geol~gical Survey, made chiefly by King,