The Colorado
Stone Industry
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1869 - Description of Colorado from Bacon's "Handbook of America,"
1869 - Quarries. (history) Presented by the Old Colorado
City Historical Society. "There are also vast limestone quarries, and
an extensive bed of marble."
- 1882 - The Colorado Stone
and Building Industry in 1882, Excerpts from Mineral Resources
of the United States, Calendar Year 1882, J. S. Powell, Director,
Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government
Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1883. Excerpts from the chapters on
1) "Structural Materials" and 2) "The Useful Minerals of
the United States."
- 1885 - The Colorado Stone
and Building Industry in 1885, Excerpts from Mineral Resources
of the United States, Calendar Year 1885, David T. Day, Geologist,
Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government
Printing, Office, Washington, D. C., 1886. Excerpts from the chapter on
"Structural Materials," by H. S. Sproull."
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1886 - Colorado Building and Ornamental Stones, 1886, and History of the Colorado Stone Industry - Excerpt from Report of the United States National Museum Under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institutions For the Year Ending June 30, 1886, Chapter entitled, “The Collection of Building and Ornamental Stones In The U. S. National Museum: A Hand-book and Catalogue,” By George P. Merrill, Curator, Department Lithology and Physical Geology.
- 1886 - The Colorado Stone
and Building Industry, 1886, Excerpts from Mineral Resources
of the United States, Calendar Year 1886, David T. Day, Chief of Division
of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United
States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.,
1887. Excerpts from the chapter on "Structural Materials," by
William C. Day.
- 1908 - The Colorado Stone Industry,
1908, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States,
Calendar Year 1908, Part II - Nonmetallic Products, Department of
the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office,
Washington, D. C., 1909. Excerpts from the book are from the chapters
on: 1) "Slate," by A. T. Coons; and 2) "Stone," by
A. T. Coons.
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1994 through 2004 - The Mineral Industry of Colorado - United States Geological
Survey (1994 through 2004).
- Colorado Marble
(Yule Marble), presented by Andrew Alden on his About Geology
web site.
- Colorado Mining Association
- Colorado Sandstone Quarrying - Building Materials Vocabulary, presented by Campus Architect, Department of Facilities Management, University of Colorado at Boulder. (Several photographs are presented on this web site to correspond with the information on Colorado building stone and the stone used on the campus. Below is only a small amount of the information available in this section of Campus Architect Building Materials Vocabulary section of the web site.)
The sandstone quarries located between Boulder and Loveland, provided the stone for use on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. According to this web site, the stone is not quarried as block dimension stone in the area but is fractured in layers. The color of the sandstone ranges from “red on the south to white on the north.”
Sandstone
The quarries located along the front range have been in operation since at least the 1880s. Although the quarries declined in 1912, there was a revitalization of the quarries in the 1930s and 1940s during the World War II years. The sandstone is described as “lying in shallow layers near the surface along the front range,” is relatively hard, and ranges in color “from purple to a deep dark red to almost white with the red colors found near Boulder and the lighter colors as far north as Loveland. The deep rich reds are more scarce as are the buffs streaked with iron oxide (stain faced).”
- Dominguez Flagstone Quarries Location Map, Colorado, presented
by Bureau of Land Management.
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Lyons Stone Quarries and Industry, presented by the Lyons,
Colorado, Chamber of Commerce. In the historic district of Lyons, fifteen
sandstone buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Native sandstone was used in the construction of the buildings. Master
craftsmen constructed the structures between the early 1870s and 1917.
Some of the sandstone quarries are still operating today. (The link from which this information was obtained is no longer available.)
<http://www.lyons-colorado.com/stone_and_quarries.htm>
- Marble, Colorado (book) - Marble: A Town
Built on Dreams, Vol. 1, by Oscar McCollum, Sundance
Publications, Limited, 1992, ISBN: 0913582557. Volume I includes the Crystal
River Railroad and the Carbondale-Redstone-Coalbasin region, as well as
the story of the Colorado-Yule Marble Company's struggles in Marble,
CO, 352 pages with 380 black and white and 50 full color views.
- Marble, Colorado (book) - Marble: A Town
Built on Dreams, Vol. II, by Oscar McCollum, Sundance
Publications, Limited, 1993. Volume II includes Col. Meek's management
of the marble company, coverage of the Crystal River and San Juan Railroad's
trackage, as well as material on the quarrying of marble and the Colorado-Yule
tramway, 352 pages with 367 black and white and 33 full color views.
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Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado - The History of Marble, Colorado, presented by Marble Tourism Association.
- Mining
and Mineral Resources of Colorado, presented by the Colorado
State Geological Survey.
- Mining History
of Colorado: Colorado State Mineral Production Summary History, Major
Minerals, Metals, and Energy Fuels, presented by the Mineral
Information Institute.
- Mount Sanitas History - Lyon Sandstone Quarries.
The sandstone quarries in this area during the 1920s were owned by the
University of Colorado, and the stone was used to build many of the campus
buildings, including Helms and Sewell Hall. Due to danger and high operating
costs, the quarries were abandoned. In 1969 the City of Boulder purchased
the quarries, and later in 1974 the surrounding land was also purchased.
- Turret
Mountain Mining District (Chaffee County) - Hard Rock from Turret.
(Granite) Article by Dick Dixon, Colorado Central Magazine, December
1997. Although the granite originated from the quarries at Turret, the
names given to the granite were named according to the town the granite
was shipped from - the town of Salida. Prior to 1920 the gray granite
was called "Dark Salida," but before the 1920s was known as "Salida Blue."
was known as "Blue Salida." A fine, pink granite was sold as "Salida Rose
Pink." Sometimes a fine granite was found that "took on a deep forest
green color." This granite was called "Salida Green," although it was
very rare. This article fully describes transporting the granite from
quarry.
- Vocabulary of Building Materials - Colorado
- Verstion 1998 [PDF]
- Version 1999 [PDF]
- Version 2000 [PDF]
- Version 2001 [PDF]
- Version 2002 [PDF]
- University of Colorado at Boulder Building and Construction Standards - Architectural Standards - Colorado
- Version 2003 [PDF]
- Version 2004 [PDF]
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Version 2005 [PDF]
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Version 2006 [PDF]
- Women
in Mining - About Minerals - "Women In Mining is dedicated
to educating students, teachers and the general public about the importance
of minerals."
- Yule
Marble Quarry Slide Show, Dr. Vince Matthews, Senior Science Advisor,
Colorado Geological Survey.
(Use Microsoft Internet Explorer to view the slide. The slideshow does
not work using Netscape Navigator and possibly other browsers.)
- Yule Marble Quarry Panoramavision Photo Show, presented on Francisco’s Fine Art web site. A slide show of several aspects of the Yule Marble Quarry are shown in Panoramavision in addition to many examples of the fine art of Francisco Sotomayor created from white Yule Marble.
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