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Mine Attractions In Idaho Springs

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The City of Idaho Springs is a Statutory City in the western United States, the most populous municipality in Clear Creek County, Colorado. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 1,717. Idaho Springs is located in Clear Creek Canyon, in the mountains upstream from Golden, some thirty miles west of Denver. Local legend is that the name of the city derived from annual visits to the radium hot springs made by a Native American chief and his tribe who journeyed there each year from Idaho to bathe in the magic healing waters. Founded 159 years ago in 1859 by prospectors during the early days of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, the town was at the center of ...
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Mine Attractions In Idaho Springs

  • 1. Argo Gold Mill and Tunnel Idaho Springs
    The Argo Tunnel, originally called the Newhouse Tunnel , is a 4.16-mile mine drainage and access tunnel with its portal at Idaho Springs, Colorado, USA. The tunnel intersected nearly all the major gold mines between Idaho Springs and Central City, and is the longest such drainage tunnel in the Central City-Idaho Springs mining district. The mines drained by the Argo Tunnel are no longer active, and the water draining out the tunnel was a source of pollution in Clear Creek until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began treating the water. Large drainage tunnels in other mining districts include the Sutro Tunnel on the Comstock Lode in Nevada, and the Leadville Tunnel and the Yak Tunnel at Leadville, Colorado. The associated gold ore mill and an adjacent gold mine are open to public to...
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