Blistered Horn Mill, Colorado

Blistered Horn Mill
Blistered Horn Mill
	Brunswick Mill
	Blistered Horn Mill, circa 1998.
Location	Gunnison County, Colorado
Nearest city	Tincup, Colorado
Coordinates	38°42′08″N106°29′31″W / 38.70222°N 106.49194°W Coordinates: 38°42′08″N106°29′31″W / 38.70222°N 106.49194°W
Elevation	10,938 feet (3,334 m) [1]
Built	Circa 1890
Built for	Brunswick Mining and Milling Company
	Location of Blistered Horn Mill in Colorado Blistered Horn Mill, Colorado (the US)

Last updated March 15, 2019

Blistered Horn Mill, also known as the Brunswick Mill, is an abandoned stamp mill located 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Tincup in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States. Built around 1890 by the Brunswick Mining and Milling Company, the mill processed gold ore from the nearby Jimmy Mack and Blistered Horn Tunnel mines.^[2]

A stamp mill is a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores. Breaking material down is a type of unit operation.

Tincup, or Tin Cup, originally called Virginia City, is an unincorporated community in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States. The community was once a prominent mining town. Tincup is now a community of summer homes with a few year-round residents. Many historic buildings are still in use.

Gunnison County is the fifth-most extensive of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2010 census, the population was 15,324. The county seat is Gunnison. The county was named for John W. Gunnison, a United States Army officer and captain in the Army Topographical Engineers, who surveyed for the transcontinental railroad in 1853.

The mill had the capacity to process 100 tons of ore daily. A 20-stamp mill ground the ore, powered by a 150-horsepower engine. The boilers were fueled by wood and coal.^[2]

Today the mill is partially collapsed. The ruins are accessed off Gunnison County Road 765, about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Cumberland Pass.

Notes

↑ "Crystal". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved September 30, 2017.
1 2 Schader, Conrad (1992). Colorado's Alluring Tin Cup: The District, its Settlements, People, Mines. Golden, Colorado: Regio Alt Publications. ISBN 0-9634479-0-4.

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[1] "Crystal". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved September 30, 2017.

[schader-2] 1 2 Schader, Conrad (1992). Colorado's Alluring Tin Cup: The District, its Settlements, People, Mines. Golden, Colorado: Regio Alt Publications. ISBN 0-9634479-0-4.