The most distinctive character of tellurium compounds is the reddish-purple solution of potassium telluride they furnish when fused with potassic carbonate and charcoal and treated with water.
Tellurium may be obtained from the bismuth ore (the telluride of bismuth) by strongly heating the ore with a mixture of carbonate of potash and charcoal.
A potassium telluride is formed which dissolves in water, forming a solution of a purplish-red colour, from which the tellurium deposits on exposure of the liquid to the atmosphere.
Defn: A tellurideof silver and gold, related to hessite.
Another kind of ore which assumes considerable importance, as in parts of Colorado, is in the form of telluride of gold always found in veins.
A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite.
The Telluride Mines Company operated the mill up until 1956 when it was liquidated into the Idarado Mining Company, which also acquired the Tomboy Mines Company in the same year.
The Ute-Ulay is now part of the holdings of the powerful Newmont Mining Company which also owns the Idarado Mining Company of Ouray and Telluride and the Resurrection Mining Company of Leadville.
In its heyday the Rio Grande Southern Railroad had a spur from Telluride that passed through and reached the mill under stoutly built snow sheds.
We left Telluride one sunny October morning with a sleeping-bag and a few supplies.
I spent a few days about Telluride riding Cricket up to a number of mines, taking photographs on the way.
The liverymen of Silverton, Ouray, and Telluridekeep the San Juan section supplied with these trained ponies.
Telluride and Ouray are separated by a mountain that rises four thousand feet above their altitude.
A number of riderless ponies who were returning to Telluride accompanied Cricket and me down the winding, scene-commanding road into this picturesque mining town.
A trip into the mountains beyond Telluride was my plan.
Ouray and Telluride are not far apart by trail, but they are separated by a rugged range that rises more than three thousand feet above them.
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