TELLER COUNTY, Colo. — An accident at a tourist gold mine in Cripple Creek that killed a man and left more than a dozen ...

A new law decades in the making could finally lead to the cleanup of some of the thousands of abandoned mines in Colorado that leak toxic metals and acid into the headwaters of the rivers that ...

On Wednesday, the Teller County Sheriff’s Office said the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s Division of ...

People and organizations that want to clean up abandoned hard-rock mines received good news when President Joe Biden signed the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act of 2024 ...

More than 23,000 abandoned mines dot public and private land in Colorado and at least 500 of them measurably harm water quality, according to the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety.