Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine Tour
Cripple Creek - World's Greatest Gold Camp ...
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| Mine Headframe |
The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine is located just outside of Cripple Creek, Colorado on state highway
67 a little northeast of town. Actually, the short drive up to the gold mine provides you with some very
beautiful scenery and a great view overlooking historic Cripple Creek.
If you are interested in mining and would like to see what life was like in an "old west hard rock mine"
back in the late 1800's then this is a wonderful tour. Visitors put on hard hats and coats(optional), as
it is about 50 degrees F down in the mine. Your journey, with a knowledgeable guide, takes you 1000
feet below the surface on a man lift that travels about 500 feet per minute.
This is a great tour that lasts about 1 hour underground. Our tour guide had a great deal of mining
experience and was very knowledgeable, explaining various mining terminology like shafts, drifts,
crosscuts, stopes, etc..., and discussed some of the history of the Mollie Kathleen mine, along with
other major gold mines in the area. Our guide showed us some of the early mining techniques
used, and demonstrated air drills and rocker shovel mucking machines and other equipment that
was used as mining in the area evolved. We even got to take a short ride underground in an air
powered man trip train.
Near the end of the tour you enter the treasure room and everyone is given a free gold ore specimen.
There are displays here that talk about the Mollie Kathleen gold mine and other major mines that
operated in the area. The Mollie Kathleen was discovered in 1891, and some of its tunnels connect
in with some of the other mines in the area and were used to get some of their ore out. All and all the
mine has over 4 miles of tunnels.
Above ground you can see the original shaft that was dug, along with an old wooden ore sorting
building, and lots of other historic mining equipment.
Below are some pictures of the Mollie Kathleen Mine that I took during a mine tour in June of 2010.
Enjoy!
67 a little northeast of town. Actually, the short drive up to the gold mine provides you with some very
beautiful scenery and a great view overlooking historic Cripple Creek.
If you are interested in mining and would like to see what life was like in an "old west hard rock mine"
back in the late 1800's then this is a wonderful tour. Visitors put on hard hats and coats(optional), as
it is about 50 degrees F down in the mine. Your journey, with a knowledgeable guide, takes you 1000
feet below the surface on a man lift that travels about 500 feet per minute.
This is a great tour that lasts about 1 hour underground. Our tour guide had a great deal of mining
experience and was very knowledgeable, explaining various mining terminology like shafts, drifts,
crosscuts, stopes, etc..., and discussed some of the history of the Mollie Kathleen mine, along with
other major gold mines in the area. Our guide showed us some of the early mining techniques
used, and demonstrated air drills and rocker shovel mucking machines and other equipment that
was used as mining in the area evolved. We even got to take a short ride underground in an air
powered man trip train.
Near the end of the tour you enter the treasure room and everyone is given a free gold ore specimen.
There are displays here that talk about the Mollie Kathleen gold mine and other major mines that
operated in the area. The Mollie Kathleen was discovered in 1891, and some of its tunnels connect
in with some of the other mines in the area and were used to get some of their ore out. All and all the
mine has over 4 miles of tunnels.
Above ground you can see the original shaft that was dug, along with an old wooden ore sorting
building, and lots of other historic mining equipment.
Below are some pictures of the Mollie Kathleen Mine that I took during a mine tour in June of 2010.
Enjoy!
| Hoist House |
| Mine Tour Departure |
| 1000 Ft. Underground |
| Crosscut Tunnel to Gold King Mine |
| Mine Tunnel |
| Rocker Shovel Mucking Machine |
| Ore Car |
| Ore Shute |
| Mine Stope |
| Treasure Room |
| Mine Bike & Tools |
| Mine Drift |
| Crosscut |
| Ore Bucket and Ore Car |
| Man LIft - Descending into the Mine |
| Mine Tunnel |
| Treasure Room |
| Treasure Room |
| Mine Bell Signals |