Gold prospecting history touring
The Dolores River and The Hanging Flume
March 26, 2024
http://www.denverpost.com/2012/04/13/121-year-old-western-colorado-mining-flume-clings-to-its-secrets/ Click on the picture above to go to the article directly. Or try this …
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The King of Colorado Gold Dredging
July 5, 2023
Benjamin Stanley Revett was a British-born mining engineer and entrepreneur who made his fortune in the gold-dredging business in Colorado. He was known as the “Gold Dredge King” …
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Edwin Carter Museum
January 18, 2023
Free Admission! The Edwin Carter Museum on the east edge of downtown Breckenridge is a charming little museum housed in the original log cabin of Edwin Carter. Carter was a …
Read more →Mines of the Alpine Loop Books Available!
March 18, 2022
4-Wheel drive guide books to the Alpine Loop and the Animas Forks Triangle, in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado.
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Breckenridge Gold Prospecting History Talk
July 1, 2021
Link to a YouTube video about the history of the gold rushes in the Breckenridge Colorado area.
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Colorado Gold Mining during the Great Depression
November 12, 2020 · 2 comments
Was it the last hurrah of the small scale miners? Gold mining in Colorado goes back a long way of course. One of the more interesting periods after the initial gold rushes is the …
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Finding Gold in Colorado: Inspiring Images
November 4, 2020
We are very excited to announce the next book in the Finding Gold in Colorado collection! Finding Gold in Colorado: Inspiring Images takes you on a photographic journey through …
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Cocktails of the Colorado Gold Rush
September 3, 2019
Ever wonder what the gold rush era miners drank besides beer and straight whisky? Here’s a couple popular cocktails you might like to experiment with yourself:
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Finding gold in Colorado! The George Andrew Jackson story.
March 29, 2019 · 2 comments
Interested in what it was like to be a prospector before the Colorado Gold Rush? Here’s the journal of the first U.S. person to discover serious gold in Colorado and then mine it. …
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Finding Gold in Colorado Book Index
October 19, 2018 · 2 comments
Finding Gold in Colorado Book Index: The following index will be included in books published in late 10/2018 and onward. It is provided here for those who own the earlier version …
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