Located right off of Interstate 70 in Idaho Springs, you’ve probably driven by it a million times, “It’s a mill connected to ...

Several mines other than the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek, site of Thursday's fatality during tours, offer visitors a first-hand look at mining history. Here's a look.

Leave the museums behind — and explore 10 historic Colorado sites Colorado is more than beautiful mountains, windswept prairies, and arid deserts. It’s the stories of the people who came ...

This small Colorado town lets you feel like you've stepped back to a time when miners searched for silver and spent their earnings in Main Street's saloons.

NPR's Mark Roberts reports on how one man's threat to destroy old silver mines on his property in Ouray County, Colorado prompted the National Trust for Historic Preservation to list the Red ...

LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) — 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 ...

A new free shuttle service launching this weekend will take skiers and snowboarders from Leadville to Ski Cooper and back on Saturdays and Sundays.

Located right off of Interstate 70 in Idaho Springs, you’ve probably driven by it a million times, “It’s a mill connected to a whole bunch of mines that produced ore from here to Central ...

LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...