Trip to Phoenix Gold Mine
by fasterlaster on Oct.17, 2008, under Travel
While searching for something uniquely Colorado to take Andrea and the kids to we ran across the Phoenix Gold Mine and decided to head into the front range to explore. We were greeted with a nice tour guide who took us all through a small history of the mine and showed us the many tools used to mine from all ranges of time periods. We were able to see gold veins right in the rock itself, as well as some areas of the mine where it had started to collapse in and was no longer able to be mined. After the tour, we were turned loose in the creek near the mine to try our hand at gold panning for gold. A prospector gave us some tips on how to go about searching for gold, and Steph actually found a small gold nugget. She got to keep it as well. Some of the Photos can be found here
