Telluride Photos 1900-1920

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Apparently, Telluridium (yep, the town's named after it, it's present in Silver 
mines, see). . . .

            Gold wasn't the only mineral mined out of these mountains. 
            Ryan lists the other major economic mineral deposits as 
            copper, silver, lead, and zinc. And what about Telluridium, 
            the ore that supposedly gave the town its name?Tellurium 
            combines with other metals to form Telluride ore (Telluridium),
            " Ryan explains. "To be honest, there's not a lot of it here. 
            Maybe they just liked the name."

http://www.8750.com/rockymtns.asp

. . . . has very interesting properties at the Quantum level . . . .

            Extending their work on lead-based dots, the NREL 
            researchers report in the March 15 Journal of the 
            American Chemical Society that lead telluride dots 
            produce up to three excitons from single solar-energy 
            photons. Currently, the Los Alamos researchers are 
            examining cadmium telluride nanocrystals.

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060603/bob8.asp

. . . . and is turning out to be very important in solar energy 
research/development.

I'm not about to claim I can follow the patter in the following link. But it 
points out how present tense these issues are as regards the physics of light. 

http://www.nrel.gov/pv/thin_film/docs/tfppp-toledo-1q2.pdf

Illuminating the locale of Telluride extends and amplifies upon the metaphors of light liberally strewn throughout AtD. 


           Jasper:
           Correction, try this link:

http://tinyurl.com/2tjv92 [photoswest.org]

           These are fantastic:

http://photoswest.org:8080/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?resultsScreen+5606+1+9+1

           (sorry if this has been posted before)

Don't be, Telluride/Telluridium has applications for AtD all across the ranges.