Located on a lonely mountain plain in Colorado ski country, the silver-rush-era town of Leadville holds secrets as deep as ...

A company that wants to extract gold from piles of decades-old mining waste outside Leadville no longer plans ... especially in Colorado. … But if that’s all we had, that’s what we were ...

Jordan Borek takes his dirt bike up to his topaz mine, shimmying down a mining shaft to retrieve cuts of the stones which will be turned into locally made adornments on display at Borek Jewelers in ...

While some became ghost towns, others still stand today, offering a glimpse into the past. From historic saloons to Victorian ...

Colorado is home to some of the highest elevation towns in the United States, offering breathtaking views and a unique way of ...

A historic mining town between Aspen and Vail, Colorado ... Founded in the 1860s, when gold and silver deposits were discovered in the area, Leadville’s boom brought tens of thousands of ...