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Article: The Sweet Home mine, 1873-1989.(The Sweet Home Mine, Park County, Colorado)
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- The Mineralogical Record
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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As silver mines go, the Sweet Home mine was a failure. It was a hole in the ground that devoured hopes and money, and gave very little in return. Based solely on its unimpressive silver output, the Sweet Home should have faded into obscurity and abandonment a century ago, joining many others that became nothing more than collapsed portals and flooded workings. However, if the Sweet Home didn't have much silver, it did indeed have a stubborn ability to survive.
Survival, of course, has led to no small measure of fame. Today, the Sweet Home mine is among the world's better-known mines, at least in the eyes of mineral collectors, for whom the name has become ...