Mining in Leadville Colorado

Today we are mining in Leadville Colorado. Actually we are digging through old tailings piles looking for any interesting rock and mineral samples. After stopping by the Rock Hut in Leadville we headed up 7th street past the old Matchless Mine into the big basin where they did much of the mining in Leadville. We poked around the old abandoned mines and tailings piles for a couple of days. There's not much to be found laying around on the surface anymore, it's been picked clean by previous collectors, but once we started digging in some of the tailings piles we started turning up some nice mineral specimens including quite a few iron pyrite (fools gold) samples.

Downtown Leadville, CO

Jack Digging in a Tailings Pile

Old Leadville Mining District

Looking Out from Old Building

Old Weathered Barn Wood

Rusty old Corrugated Metal

Jack at The Rock Shop in Leadville, CO

Joe at the supermarket in Leadville

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