Cobalt set to celebrate.The historical mining town of Cobalt will be celebrating its centennial this year with a host of events. The Centennial Miner's Festival celebrations will take place from Aug. 4 to 7, 2006, with opening ceremonies beginning on Friday at 7 p.m. at the Welcome Centre. There will be live entertainment, dances, barbecues, open tours of museums, various displays, children's activities and contests. On the Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. , a parade will begin at 1 p.m. along with a host of other outdoor festival events. The celebration will give the town the opportunity to showcase its historical sites and interactive displays, such as the Heritage Silver Trail, the Underground Adit adit (ăd`ĭt), in mining, underground passage excavated nearly horizontally, with one end open to the earth's surface, usually used to service a mine. The adit end is the furthermost end from the surface, i.e., the location where miners work. Tour, the Cobalt Mining, Bunker bunk, bunker large storage bin. bunk forage forage, usually ensilage stored in a large storage bunk and made available to cattle or other livestock along a face of the storage. Military, and Firefighter's Museums and the Cobalt Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. Mine Show, to name a few. Cobalt received its designation as an Historic Mining District in 2004. |
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