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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Crypto mining, the work of authenticating transactions and adding them to the blockchain, has expanded from its beginnings with the establishment of Bitcoin in 2009 to giant farms with specialized ...