Talk:Climax, Colorado

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I'd like to add this, but I'm beginning to think that I need to split the Climax Mine from the town of Climax, Colorado. --Mdwyer 16:56, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Links[edit]

http://www.climaxmolybdenum.com/ [1]

The mine could certainly be covered in a separate article, but until there's a lot more information here on either the town or the mine, I don't see a problem taking care of both in a single page. As well as being inextrably linked anyway, so far there's nothing more here about the mine that wouldn't be mentioned in the town article, and vice-versa. --Kbh3^rd talk 17:06, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that, even though the Climax Mine has been shuttered for years, the Climax Molybdenum company has been marketing uses of moly for years through locations other than Climax Colorado. http://www.climaxmolybdenum.com/ContactUs/ So, there might actually be three subjects: Climax, Colorado, the corporate town; Climax Mine; and Climax Molybdenum, in Phoenix, Arizona. I see your point, though. There's really not enough to cover any of these subjects in a single article. I should probably expand here, first. I appreciate your suggestions!--Mdwyer 14:58, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reference[edit]

Paul B. Coffman (1937). "The Rise of a New Metal: The Growth and Success of the Climax Molybdenum Company". The Journal of Business of the University of Chicago. 10 (1): 30–45.--Stone 14:48, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Highest Post Office in the U.S.[edit]

I once visited Waldorf, Colorado, and believe that it had a Post Office from 1906 to 1912 - see Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989 by William H. Bauer, James L. Ozment, & John H. Willard, published by Colorado Railroad Museum (1990), p. 148. The town & its PO are pictured on the dust-jacket. The town was at an altitude of 11,666 feet - see booklet entitled Unique Ghost Towns and Mountain Spots by Caroline Bancroft & Daniel K. Peterson, (1967), p. 19, or Perry Eberhart's Guide to the Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps, (1959), p. 55. If so, that would probably make it the highest PO there has been in the United States. I suggest someone checks this and amends the Climax, Colorado, page accordingly. NinetyCharacters (talk) 17:00, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've now discovered two more claimants in Colorado to the title of "Highest Post Office there has ever been in the U.S." They are Virginius (which had a PO 1887-1894 & is/was at an altitude of about 12,300 feet) and Camp Bird (PO 1898-1918, altitude unknown to me). NinetyCharacters (talk) 23:23, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Splitting or Joining the Article?[edit]

(See above 2006 discussion in Links.) Now that the Climax mine is back in operation, it makes sense that it has been split off. Indeed, that article is much larger, and since the mine is "alive," additional facts are likely to continue. However, because many people associate one with the other, it should be pointed out and emphasized that the mine has a separate listing. A mere hyperlink is easily missed by the casual reader.
On the other hand, this article is tiny, a stub really, and unless it gets some meat, could easily be incorporated into the climax mine article. This tiny article does not match the large (mostly recreation, tourist, and photography) interest it gets on the Internet. This seems skewed, I'm guessing a commercial bias (no trade = no value). It has literally NOTHING on what the town sans mine was like, only that it was removed in 1965.
--68.127.85.21 (talk) 06:49, 1 March 2013 (UTC)Doug Bashford[reply]

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A Climax story[edit]

Can't resist retelling this true story, about a fellow geologist & his wife, who I got to know when we both worked around Miami, AZ. They met underground at the moly mine: he was a mine surveyor, she an environmental engineer. Yes, they met at CLIMAX! --Pete Tillman (talk) 00:15, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]