While Rocky Mountain towns were once filled with gold seekers, now, they're full of people seeking high-altitude year-round fun. But some of these towns — like Victor, Colorado — offer not just ...

During the California Gold Rush, Napa’s Oat Hill Mine was one of the leading producer’s of the ore, cinnabar. When processed, cinnabar produces quicksilver, more commonly known as mercury. Quicksilver ...

Mere feet from a prospect pit where miners dug for gold in the second half of the 19th century, bikers whizzed by on the Maryland Mountain trail system west of Denver. “This one is 15-to-16-feet deep ...

Note: This article was originally published in a modified form by the U.S. Forest Service. In the 1880s, Douglas Island was the site of the largest gold mining complex in the world. A 14-mile-long ...