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Silverton is located in the San Juan Mountains, a rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado. The area is highly mineralized (the Colorado Mineral Belt) and figured in the gold and silver mining industry of early Colorado.
The Silverton district opened legally to miners in 1874, following the Brunot Treaty with the Utes. Mining reached its peak between 1900 and 1912, and the population of San Juan County peaked at 5,000.
The area boasted four railroads, three smelters, and over thirty mills serving myriad gold and silver mines high in the mountains.
In the years since that glittering decade, San Juan County saw several of the boom and bust cycles typical of the mining industry. The boom cycles saw an influx of people and industry and yielded millions of dollars worth of precious metals. Financial and environmental setbacks, such as Lake Emma's flooding of the Sunnyside Mine in 1978, marked the decline of Silverton's mining era. The Sunnyside, the last big mine in the region, closed in 1991.