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Colorado Coal Mining

View of two miners working in an underground coal mine, Lafayette, Colorado. One man squats and uses his pickaxe on a chunk of coal, the other holds an unidentified piece of equipment. An empty ore cart is next to them.

For Colorado coal miners, the canary in the coal mine was actually a mouse

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New Castle, Colorado: A Coal Town That Survives Despite Disaster

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