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The Argo Gold Mine and Mill is a former gold mining and milling property in Idaho Springs, Colorado, featuring an intact gold mill built at the entrance of the Argo Tunnel. The tunnel was built between 1893 and 1910 to drain the gold mines in Virginia Canyon, Gilpin Gulch, Russell Gulch , Quartz Hill, Nevadaville , and Central City and allow ...
Chinese-American miners in the Colorado School of Mines' Edgar Experimental Mine near Idaho Springs, circa 1920. On January 5, 1859, during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, prospector George A. Jackson discovered placer gold at the present site of Idaho Springs, where Chicago Creek empties into Clear Creek. It was the first substantial gold discovery ...
The Argo Tunnel served all major gold mines in Idaho Springs at the time. [7] The main purpose of the tunnel was for transporting ore out of tunnel and onto trains. Argo Tunnel ceased production after a mining disaster in 1943, in which 4 miners died because of a large volume of naturally impounded water flooding the area they were in. [ 8 ...
Phoenix Gold Mine, Idaho Springs, Colorado [6] is a fully operational gold mine where there are tours [1] replete with opportunities to pan for gold. [7] Since 1988, Phoenix Gold Mine has been family owned and operated. [8] [5] The Mosch family is "the oldest continuous mining family in the state" [9] of Colorado. Phoenix Gold Mine has been ...
Gold mining in Colorado (1 C, 5 P) I. Colorado mining images ... Idaho Springs miners' strike of 1903; K. King Coal; M. McNulty rhyolite; Mining in Colorado Springs ...
The City of Idaho Springs is the statutory city that is the most populous municipality in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. Idaho Springs is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 United States census it had a population of 1,782. [7]
Pages in category "Gold mines in Colorado" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine; G. Golden Fleece Mine ...
The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine, formerly and historically the Cresson Mine, is an active gold mine located near the town of Victor, in the Cripple Creek mining district in the US state of Colorado. The richest gold mine in Colorado history, [1] it is the only remaining significant producer of gold in the state, and produced 322,000 troy ...