Annual Report, Colorado, Bureau of Mines, 1956

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The Thirty-sixth General Assembly in 1947 passed an Act requiring, in addition to the above, that the Commissioner of Mines conduct safety inspection of all oil wells, property and equipment appurtenant immediately and used in connection with producing oil wells and further charged him with the enforcement of laws relating to the health, safety, and welfare of any person employed in such wells, or other property.

From time to time, and by various opinions and decisions, the Colorado Bureau of Mines, under the direction of the Commissioner of Mines, has been authorized and empowered to make safety inspections of all underground metal or mineral mines, open pit or other surface mines, rock and mineral quarries, clay pits and mines, earth and rock dams, water canals, highway excavations, highway gravel pits, all rock excavations, rock tunnels or any mine workings of whatever kind or character (except coal mines), ore mills, mineral grinding plants, highway gravel crushing plants, sampling works, smel^ ters, chemical plants producing a chemical from ore or minerals, metallurgical plants, oil and gas wells and all equipment and machinery used in connection with any of the above and all buildings thereon.

The Commissioner of Mines was ...