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Climax's reason for being was its huge deposit of molybdenum ore. The Climax post office operated from 1887 until 1898, and from 1917 until 1974; the town was razed in 1962 to make way for the enlarging Climax mine, owned by Freeport-McMoRan.From 1940 to 1972 the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) operated a High Altitude Observatory for solar

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