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The mining district of Gilman, Colorado, located at an elevation of 8950 feet on Battle Mountain, was a center of lead and zinc mining during the Colorado silver boom of the 1880s. However, in 1984, the Environmental Protection Agency declared the town a superfund site, and decided to close the mining district due to concerns

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