Cripple Creek & Victor is the only large gold mine left
FREMONT COUNTY - There's still gold in "them thar hills. "
I was skeptical.
After all, from the first cries of "Pike's (sic) Peak or Bust" in 1859 until the collapse of the gold camps at Cripple Creek 40 years later, prospectors blasted, tunneled, dug or panned seemingly every inch of Colorado that might hide gold. To find gold today, you need dump trucks the size of houses and sodium cyanide to leach it from entire mountainsides of rocks, like is done at the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co.
I was wrong. All you need is a pan and a little perseverance.