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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...