Talk:Telluride, Colorado

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[edit] Tellurium

The article suggests that the place name may have come from "tellurium" as an old name for a kind of gold ore (before it became a name for an element found in some gold ores). Is it really true that the name was ever used in this way? GMcGath 20:40, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

It is speculated.

A compound with metal or hydrogen and similar ions to Tellurium is called a Telluride. I have heard variously that Tellurium was never found here [Telluride], & that a Gold or Silver (I don't remember) Telluride was found here.

It is also speculated that it came from a local statement, sometimes atributed to rail workers, sometimes to mine workers, to a contraction of the statement "To Hell You Ride, boy, to hell you ride!", "To-Hell-You-Ride" becomming "T 'ell You Ride", becomming, in print, "T'ell-U-Ride", or Telluride". Grye 11:31, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


I have read that the name could come from either use and the element was discovered and named in 1782, so that is a definite possibility. I would like to think that it came from, as Grye said, "To Hell You Ride"
Also, I forgot to log in, but I did the most recent update to this page. I left everyones links alone, though I re-arranged them to allow people to weed out the visitor/tourist information from the Historical information. -CameraCourage

[edit] Atlas Shrugged link

I just saw the tombstone for John Gault in the Telluride Cemetary.

Coincidence? I think not.

Grye 11:07, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article layout

the "external links" section needs to change. again. lets look here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical/North America for starts... Grye 02:25, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

....OK... make that "...I'll look here, for starts..." Grye 00:42, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks y'all... don't complain when it changes...;~D Grye 06:35, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I have added the picture to the infobox once again. I don't know why, but it has been previously removed. I'm sure it is all good with the copyrights because I took that picture myself. It is ok if someone wants to change it, but please, don't just remove it if you're not going to replace it with a better picture. Felipecbg 21:06, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I think the thumbnails should be standardized to 200px, so the article will look better. Felipecbg 21:06, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Also, I have written the "Transportation" section. I think it's important to talk about it in this article. If you have something to improve it, go ahead. Otherwise, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. Felipecbg 21:06, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Marie Curie

is the Marie Curie mentioned here this same Marie Curie? I do see mention of ores etc in her Biography section. Grye 05:49, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Why yes, G-Rye, it is.[1] thanks for assking...;~D Grye 20:08, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Supposed Marie Curie-Placerville Connection

Yes I do have a reference - I believe a better one than yours [GRYE]. As I requested in my previous comment, please see the article on Placerville, Colorado. I added to that article some details on the mining there, and cited as my source an article by a U.S. Geological Survey geologist, that the ore at Placerville was originally mined for vanadium, as the uranium mineral carnotite was only a minor constituent of the ore. The principal ore mineral was roscoelite, which contains vanadium, but no uranium. The minor uranium content of the Placerville vanadium ore was not recovered until about 1950. This hardly squares with uranium from Placerville going to Marie Curie. As for the vague claim that Marie Curie "is said to have visited the area," such a visit would have been covered by newspapers nationwide, so you certainly should be able to come up with a contemporary newspaper source for that one. Perhaps the reason that this is a "little-known fact" is because it's not true. If you don't have access to a good geological library, I can scan the cited article and email it to you.Plazak 04:07, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

At the risk of once again offending the Guardians of Cherished Local Myths, I have added to the description and documentation of vanadium mining in the Placerville article, which is consistent that there is no documented production of uranium from the Placerville mines until long after Marie Curie's death. In the meantime, no one has posted any good documentation in support of uranium from the Placerville mines going to Curie. That the Telluride article continues to include unsupported statements does it discredit. Particularly egregious is inclusion of the rumor that Curie "is said to have visited the area." That statement is blatant hearsay that should be either documented or removed from the article.Plazak 15:41, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

No one stepped forward to document the rumor that Marie Curie visited SW Colorado, so I removed it. Now for the remaining statement about supposed uranium mining at Placerville, Colorado: if anyone reads the reference for this statement, they will see that it does not represent that uranium was mined at Placerville, nor does it say that Curie bought such uranium in 1898. I have no disagreement with the source material, only the way that it is garbled and misrepresented in the Telluride article.Plazak 17:51, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

No one came up with a source for the remaining "little known fact," so I removed it.Plazak 13:33, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] companies with wikipedia pages

dunno where this might go, but here's some wikilinks to companies that own telluride companies

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.spec2000.net/rr_site_pages/rr_ng07.htm Author- E. R. (Ross) Crain, P.Eng.