Cripple Creek Riches

Gold Specimens on display include:

 

  1. Bullet Several samples collected by Mollie Kathleen’s when she discovered

  2. her gold mine outcropping in 1891.


  4. Bullet Large silvenite and calaverite nuggets rarely seen by man, that were  prospected by Melvin

  5. Anderson.


  7. Bullet Samples from the first gold mine of The Cripple Creek District, Bob Womack’s Gold King Mine,

  8. discovered in 1890.

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  10. Bullet A spectacular calaverite cluster from the 600 foot level of the World Renowned Cresson Mine.

  11. Learn the story of the incredible Cresson “Gold Vug” discovery of 1914.

For the “rock hound”, and worth the price of admission alone,  is a mineral display that showcases Cripple Creek “tellurides-of-gold-ore.” A life long collection of former Cripple Creek prospector/miner Melvin Anderson,  offers a  rare  chance to examine gold ore samples from historic mines of the Cripple Creek District.

About the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine Tour

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