"We just have to wait," said Dan Jensen, owner of the fixed-base operation, acknowledging the difficulty of getting off the ground in Leadville - for both planes and businesses. Ever since the Climax ...

Other companies in Colorado are also testing the ... Michael hopes that the Leadville project will show that cleaning up mine waste can yield a profit and encourage others to pursue similar ...

Leadville – home to about 2,600 people and the National Mining Museum -- bills itself as America's highest city at 10,119 feet (3,0084 meters) above sea level. That distinction helped the city ...

Another account calls the Ice Palace “a Colossus in the Colorado Rockies ... that also foretold Leadville’s tourism future. “Very early on, it was very much a mining town,” Brokaw ...

By 1880, Leadville had the second largest population in Colorado and it was among the ... one of the first Leadville millionaires, and mine owner J.J. Brown, husband of Margaret Brown who later ...