history of miningMountain States Historical’s services range from cultural resource compliance, to historic preservation, to heritage tourism. We perform research, full-site documentation, interpretation, management guidance, and National Register of Historic Places nominations. We have also written extensively on mining history, mining archaeology, and abandoned mines. Our publications include guidance documents that help clients understand history, interpret sites, and evaluate whether they are historically significant.

Services Provided:

  • Section 106 regulatory compliance
  • Cultural resource mitigation treatment and planning
  • Reconnaissance surveys
  • In-depth cultural resource inventories and surveys
  • Level II site documentation
  • National Register of Historic Places nomination
  • Preservation management and planning
  • Archival research
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) potentially responsible party searches and reports (PRP)
  • Legal professional witnessing
  • Medium format photography
  • Structural assessments for mine buildings
  • Subsurface archaeological investigations
  • Limited archaeological excavation

 

(Photo: Prospect shaft, Turret Mining District, Chaffee County, CO)