From The Writer’s Alamanac, a trivia on mining:

Today is believed to be the birthday of William Shakespeare, (books by this author) born in Stratford-on-Avon, England (1564).   Shakespeare has always been popular in America, and many colonists kept copies of his complete works along with their Bibles. Pioneers performed his work out West. Many of the mines and canyons across the West are named after Shakespeare or one of his characters. Three mines in Colorado are called Ophelia, Cordelia, and Desdemona. (As depicted in order below.)

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