Colorado mine hopes art can help it return to production
Like many other mining projects in the United States, the Mystic Eagle Quarry in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley is facing a considerable amount of opposition. However, the owners of the mine have taken a unique approach to try to swing public opinion to their favor by ramping up a dream to turn the mine into a working mine/artists colony.
According to the Denver Post, the plan would allow carvers to order up a chunk of size-specific rock and chisel away in the cool confines of the mine while tourists file through to observe the works-in-progress.
Carver Jeremy Russell started chiseling a huge eagle into one wall of alabaster in the mine in 2000. But work in the mine has been stopped while a legal dispute between the owners, Ebram Stone LLC, and the Forest Service winds its way through the courts.
Read the full story at the Denver Post.
