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The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine is a historic vertical shaft mine near Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States. [1] The mine shaft descends 1,000 feet (300 m) into the mountain, a depth roughly equal to the height of the Empire State Building in New York City. [2] The mine currently gives tours, [3] and is visited by around 40,000 people annually. [4]
Colorado authorities have identified the person that died in a former gold mine that is now a tourist attraction.. Patrick Weier, a Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine tour guide, died after being trapped ...
The Colorado man who was killed after an elevator malfunctioned at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine on Thursday, Oct. 10, has been identified.. Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell identified the ...
PHOTO: Patrick Weier is seen in a still from a video leading a tour group at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine on Sept. 28, 2024, Teller County, Colorado. (Obtained by ABC News)
The elevator was descending into the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine on Thursday in the mountains near Colorado Springs. At around 500 feet (152 meters) down, the person operating the elevator from the surface “felt something strange" and stopped it, Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell said.
Its website describes a one-hour tour in which visitors descend 1,000 feet. It says they can see veins of gold in the rock and ride an underground tram. A woman named Mollie Kathleen Gortner discovered the site of the mine in 1891 when she saw quartz laced with gold, according to the company’s website. ___ Brown reported from Billings, Montana.
The elevator was descending into the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine near the town of Cripple Creek in the mountains near Colorado Springs on Thursday when it had a mechanical problem around 500 feet (152 meters) beneath the surface, Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell said. What exactly caused the visitor’s death was not immediately provided.
The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine is located at 9388 Highway 67 in Cripple Creek, which is about an hour west of Colorado Springs. It advertises itself on its website as the "Only Vertical Shaft Gold ...