PARK COUNTY ” Could mining once again come back to these mountains? In Park County, perhaps it will. The call of “gold!” in 1857 brought thousands of people to the Colorado Mineral Belt ...

Maps: Mining Claims Along the Colorado River December 21, 2008 9:00 a.m. The maps below show mining claims within 10 miles of the Colorado River in 2001 and 2008.

Colorado officials are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) account of the state’s role in the August mine waste spill that the EPA caused.