10 Industries in Colorado

By lchen

  • Mining began in Colorado

    Mining began in Colorado
    The goods provided:gold, silver, coal, oil, natural gas, molybdenum, Uranium.
    Impact of this industry is that it produces jobs and brought enough people came to Colorado to make it a state. It also produces fuel for nuclear reactor plants, cars and other locomotives.
    Rescources needed: mine building material, mine tools, wood, fuel, money.

  • Sheep and Cattle

    Sheep and Cattle
    Goods: Meat from sheep and cattle, milk, wool.
    Impact: More jobs ,coflicts, problems and blames against each other in this industry.
    Rescources: horses, grass, hay, wood, grains, water source, branders,money and food.

  • beverages

    beverages
    Goods: wine, beer, spirit
    Impact: Liquor for the thirsty people mining at the time and makes a good refreshing drink they sell at stores. It also creates jobs in the brewing industry.
    rescources: brewing factory, water from a water source, brewing ingredients, fuel and money.

  • Manufacturing

    Manufacturing
    Goods: electronics (computers etc.), cars, processed foods, fuel, steel, plastic, alloys.
    Impact: More jobs amd rescources created and used and more technology for a betterand simpler life.
    rescources: metal, factories, glass, silicon,packaging, money, fuel.

  • Minting

    Minting
    Goods: U.S. currency in the form of coins.
    Impact: More jobs and coins in curculation and coins for collectors to collect.
    Rescources: Metals, alloys of metal, money and fuel.

  • Smelting

    Smelting
    Goods: steel,alloys ( tin,bronze,etc.)
    Impact: More jobs and metal alloys for use and labor incidents such as strikes.
    Rescources: raw metals, factory, mill, money, fuel.

  • Agriculture

    Agriculture
    Goods: pears, plums, peaches, cherries, corn, hay, grains, wheat, potatoes, lettuces, onions, cantaloupes, melon, beets, and squash.
    Impact:More jobs in Colorado's agriculture sector, water tunnels created for irrigation and water depleted from rivers for irrigation.
    rescources: irrigation material, farming tools, seeds or sapling, money,fuel.

  • tourism

    tourism
    Service: ski resorts, national and state parks, bodies of water for fishing/rafting.
    Impact: More jobs and people come here to have fun and sightsee which brings money and jobs for Colorado.
    Resources needed: Ski lifts, lodges and hotels, bodies of water for fishing/rafting, rods, baits, fuel, money, rafting material.

  • Norad/Air Force

    Norad/Air Force
    Service:Training for Air Force cadets, knowledge if an attack is coming.
    Impact: Jobs and knowledge to defend us from attack and an Air Force base to train Air Force cadets.
    Rescources: radar, Air Force cadet training equipment and base, a foudation in the moutain, power scource, money.

  • Biofuels

    Biofuels
    Goods: algae biofuel.
    Impact: More jobs and fuel created from algae so we do not need to use fossil fuel and reduced risk of product failure.
    Rescources:algae, sunlight, algae collection tool, power scource, money.