Colorado School of Mines

Colorado School of Mines, at Golden; state supported, coeducational; chartered 1874. It was one of the first mineral engineering schools in the United States. It owns extensive experimental and research facilities, field laboratories, and an experimental mine at Idaho Springs.

See J. R. Morgan, A World School: The Colorado School of Mines (1955).

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