COLORADO — The prospectors at Vic's Gold Panning in Black Hawk, Colorado describe themselves as "crazy." Using processes that date back more than 150 years, this group continues a long legacy of ...

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 Arkansas River basin more ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado gold mine ...

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 ...

One person died and 23 others had to be rescued after an accident left them trapped in an 1,000-foot-deep gold mine in Colorado. “I am relieved that 12 of the people trapped in the Mollie Kathleen ...

Gold mining in the United States is heavily concentrated in a handful of states that combine rich geology with decades of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — It turns out the pioneers ...

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 ...

Miners want to return to the treasured landscape, promising an economic boost while raising fears of how modern gold extraction could forever change the region. A U.S. appeals court panel let the ...