Mining was so big here that the town still offers underground tours into the 1870s Chollar Mine and the Ponderosa Mine, ...

Photos of the area's mining history are displayed inside the Coal Creek Miners Museum, along with old mining equipment.

The tiny mining town is hidden just off Blewett Pass on U.S. Highway 97. Today, each building looks like it’s come right out of the 1890s: log exteriors, wooden windows and fences.

COLORADO SPRINGS — If you’re looking for a family activity to do this weekend, the Western Museum of Mining and Industry is kicking off its annual Pumpkin Patch and Harvest Festival. The event ...

The landscape around Garnet is littered with tailings, rusted equipment, flattened areas, smashed trees and other evidence of mining, which started in the 1860s and continued until the 1950s when ...

GRANTS, N.M. (KRQE) – The U.S. Forest Service is gearing up to boost vegetation at an old uranium mining site near Grants, New Mexico. The Forest Service remediated the La Jara Mine in 2016, b… ...

While the Crisson Gold Mine is an open-pit versus an underground mine, guests can still pan for gold and gemstones, view a working 125-year-old stamp mill and explore antique mining equipment.