Denver’s cost of living isn’t going to be decreasing anytime soon, so we don’t blame you if you’ve dreamt of heading for the hills to look for precious metals like Colorado’s prospectors of yore. Here ...

Mere feet from a prospect pit where miners dug for gold in the second half of the 19th century, bikers whizzed by on the Maryland Mountain trail system west of Denver. “This one is 15-to-16-feet deep ...

Twelve people trapped deep beneath the surface of a former Colorado gold mine turned popular tourist destination were rescued Thursday night after an elevator malfunctioned, authorities said. The ...

An equipment failure at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine near Cripple Creek had stranded 12 people who were on a tour underground for hours. By Alexandra E. Petri Twelve people who had been trapped 1,000 ...

LEADVILLE, Colo. — Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville — a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the ...

DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado gold mine where a tour guide was killed and a group of tourists was trapped for hours after an elevator accident has been ordered to remain closed and not conduct tours ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Gold Corp. ("U.S. Gold," the "Company," "we," "our" or "us") (NASDAQ: USAU), a gold and copper exploration and development company, is pleased to ...

California may be synonymous with the Gold Rush, but the discovery of gold in Colorado in the late 1850s caused a frenzy of its own. In the peak year of the Colorado rush, 1859, more than 100,000 ...

A rescue operation in Colorado on Thursday to bring trapped mining tour visitors out of an underground mine was successful, seven hours after one person died and four others were injured. Gov. Jared ...