Mining Tourism
Mineral Belt National Recreation Trail - a loop around Leadville
May 4, 2017
The next time you are in the Leadville area, consider walking or biking the Mineral Belt National Recreation Trail to see cool gold rush artifacts and mining sites. My wife and I …
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Gold Tourism - Iowa Hill Hydraulic Mining historic site
January 15, 2017
Learning about gold placer mining includes everything from panning (which we all do) to sluicing, dredging and, at the large industrial scale, hydraulic mining which is also called …
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Satisfy your gold fever with a little winter reading and digging
December 28, 2016 · 4 comments
Bazooka Sniper on the Winter Solstice 2016 I’m sitting at my computer, looking out the window at yet another winter storm (we’ve had almost 6 feet of snow this month (12/2016) …
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Gold Tourism News Flash: Grand Opening of view point for Cripple Creek Gold Mine
September 17, 2016 · 4 comments
If you are reading this “now”, you missed the grand opening, but the overlook is open 24/7/365. Call the Victor Lowell Thomas Museum about scheduled tours of the whole historic …
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Gold Prospecting & Tourism - Lomax Placer
September 5, 2016 · 2 comments
The Lomax Placer site gives you a chance to see and touch placer hydrauliking equipment at a site where it was actually used. You can also see a fully equipped gold assay office, …
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Gold Tourism: New viewpoint at Cripple Creek & Victor mine!
August 3, 2016
Newmont North America runs the huge open pit Cresson gold mine near Cripple Creek, a small town in the Colorado Rockies. The folks running the largest gold mine in Colorado today …
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Gold Tourism - Denver Museum of Nature & Science
July 12, 2016
If you make it to Denver, this is a must stop! The Hall of minerals has lots of gorgeous crystals, mineral samples and lots of gold, especially Colorado gold. Here’s the entry area …
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Gold Tourism - The Phoenix Mine Tour
May 24, 2016 · 1 comment
A while back, I had a friend from China and her husband come visit. They wanted to spend a day as gold prospectors, so we visited Arapahoe Bar to dig (see my post about that site …
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