But Sylvester and more than half a million mineral rights owners ... got special use permits from Garfield County but still must get approval from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission ...

According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, a skier and snowboarder were traveling in the Middle Fork of Mineral Creek drainage when they were caught in an avalanche in the terrain ...

Rhodochrosite was declared Colorado’s state mineral in 2002 ... a sphalerite and quartz stone from the Patch Mine in Gilpin County, a twinned fluorite from Wedding Pocket in Teller County ...