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The Old Hundred Gold Mine is a gold mine in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. The mine is about five miles east of Silverton, Colorado, near the ghost town of Howardsville. The property is no longer mined, but is open for tours in the summer. High on the mountain above the main entrance is the former boarding house for the miners.
The town is less than 15 miles from 7 of Colorado's 53 fourteeners, and is known as one of the premier gateways into the Colorado backcountry. Silverton's last operating mine closed in 1992, and the community now depends primarily on tourism and government remediation and preservation projects.
The Silverton Northern Railroad laid tracks to reach Howardsville in 1896, with an extension getting built from Howardsville into Cunningham Gulch to reach the Old Hundred Mine, along with the Green Mountain Mine, in 1905. The town would be sustained for the remainder of its life by the Pride Of The West Mill and the Little Nation Tram House ...
Colorado authorities have identified the person that died in a former gold mine that is now a tourist attraction.. Patrick Weier, a Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine tour guide, died after being trapped ...
A tour guide died at a Colorado gold mine after an elevator experienced a mechanical issue hundreds of feet below ground, trapping a dozen tourists for several hours, authorities said. The ...
English: An abandoned mine sits a few hundred feet above the town of Silverton, Colorado, in the San Juan Mountain Range of the Rocky Mountains, in July 2020. Though not much remains, part of the mine structure remains and is surrounded by phenomenal scenery.
A rescue operation in Colorado to bring trapped mining tour visitors out of an underground mine was successful, seven hours after one person died and four others were injured. 12 rescued from ...
Pages in category "Gold mines in Colorado" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Old Hundred Gold Mine; S. Stratton's Independence Mine ...