CO Mines

Mining in Rocky Mountain National Park

How Sand Mining Is Quietly Creating A Major Global Environmental Crisis | Forbes Globally, it’s estimated that we mine as much as 50 billion metric tonnes of sand every year to build our roads, bridges, skyscrapers, homes and more. Rapid urbanization around the world has made sand a high value commodity, so much so that,…

Seniorita Gold Mine for Sale – Colorado – 2016 The Seniorita Mine is about 4 miles north of Ouray, Colorado. The claim has a large track coming from what appears to have once been a haulage tunnel. Piping and track indicate a large adit was once on site. The mine has not been worked in…

Colorado Experience: Creede – The Last Boom Town In so many ways, the story of Colorado is the story of mining. And Creede stands as one of the last mining towns of its kind. So many mines and their legacies were abandoned over the years – and nearly lost forever. But a handful of heroes…

Trinidad Colorado Purgatory River And Coal Mine Walk Taking a walk in Trinidad, Colorado. We walk by Purgatory river and the Train Display. We walk downtown and to the Coal Mine Memorial. Thanks for taking the time to watch our videos. We are retired military and have all the time for traveling and enjoying God’s…

Amethyst Mine Trailhead Western Colorado Hey guys, so in this video we were trying to go to a location i found online to dig for Amethyst crystals but we weren’t sure were were in the correct location due to my maps not downloading correctly. We just decided to continue the path and see where it…

How Sand Mining Is Quietly Creating A Major Global Environmental Crisis | Forbes Globally, it’s estimated that we mine as much as 50 billion metric tonnes of sand every year to build our roads, bridges, skyscrapers, homes and more. Rapid urbanization around the world has made sand a high value commodity, so much so that,…

Colorado Copper Tungsten Gold mine from the 1880s. Easing into a abandon 1880s Colorado Copper Tungsten Gold mine chasing Sulfide veins and seeing how far I could go. 90% of collapses occur at the portals.

Magical Paint Mines – Exploring Colorful Colorado – Hiking Tips On today’s episode we head a short distance east of Colorado Springs to visit the incredible Paint Mines Interpretive Park in Calhan, Colorado. This place certainly adds to the Colorful Colorado state motto! All of this color and natural beauty is basically in our new…

Paint Mines Interpretive Park: Calhan Colorado Paint Mines Interpretive Park is located at 29950 Paint Mine Road, Calhan, CO 80808. It is free to the public and is open 6 AM to 7 PM daily. When we were there on June 18, 2021 the temperature was approaching 100 degrees with a strong wind blowing. I…