Rocky Mountain Fuel Company

Rocky Mountain Fuel Company
Company typePrivate
FoundedJuly, 1894
Defunct2006
SuccessorGoodridge & Marfell

The Rocky Mountain Fuel Company was a coal mining company located in Colorado, operating mines in Louisville, Lafayette, and other locations northwest of Denver.[1] The company also operated mines in Las Animas, Routt, Garfield and Gunnison counties. During the 1930s, the company was the second-largest producer of coal by volume in the state of Colorado.[2] However, the company was severely impacted by the Great Depression, declining productivity of local coal deposits, and the increased popularity of natural gas, and went bankrupt in 1944.[1]

  1. ^ a b Tillie Fong (July 13, 1999). "Capitalist and Humanitarian". Rocky Mountain News. Archived from the original on December 26, 2008.
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