No other place illustrates Colorado’s history better than Leadville. The city at 10,158 feet rose practically overnight after prospectors discovered gold and silver in California Gulch in the 1860s.

This map shows about 12,500 abandoned mines that have been ... Rachel Storm with the History Colorado Center said the lasting impact of historical mining in the state left the landscape dotted ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Piles of mine waste that loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville are a reminder of the city’s boom days. Now a company wants to “remine” some of the waste piles.

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 ...

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 ...

Standing atop a heap of mining waste with Colorado’s highest summit, Mount Elbert, in the distance, Michael says the rubble has a higher concentration of gold than many large mines now operating ...