In November 1891, the hulking five-story, 27,000-square-foot Holden Lixiviation Works opened on the west bank of Castle Creek on the outskirts of Aspen. The plant used stamp mills, furnaces and ...

Brian Maki remembers growing up in some of the early days of Hoyt Lakes in the 1950s and ’60s, when the town sprang to life in service to the Erie Mining Company’s production facility 6 miles north.

REDSTONE, Colorado – The coal mines of Mid-Continent Resources, now a reclaimed area in nearby Coal Basin, have been closed down for more than 20 years, following 35 tumultuous years of operation. The ...

Susanne Arens thought the vacant lot next to a McDonald's restaurant in a Rockrimmon shopping center was the perfect place to build a new car wash. Springs native Jerry Golden grew up admiring the ...

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Underneath the surface of a resort town that pulls in hundreds of thousands of skiers per year lives a mining history that’s nearly a century deep. If it were not for historians and an interest from ...

There’s increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths ...

Sometimes, you can’t get out of the house, but you still need your local history fix. I recommend a virtual tour of Boulder County’s hard rock mining history. The tour can be found on the website of ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the correct pricing of the Hike Home with a Miner Tour. A century before five peaks became the town of Breckenridge’s identity, the mountains were ...

Throughout history, mining scams have been prevalent. Some historians conjecture that prior to the development of major copper mining operations, more money was lost to mining scams than profits were ...