This Hidden Gold Deposit Beneath Colorado Springs Could Change Everything

This Hidden Gold Deposit Beneath Colorado Springs Could Change Everything Twenty-five miles west of Colorado Springs, inside the remains of a dead volcano, one of the most productive gold districts in American history is still running. Most people who live in the city have no idea it's there.In 1890, a broke ranch hand named Bob Womack found gold in a ravine so unpromising the locals had already called it Poverty Gulch. Nobody believed him. He sold his claim for a few hundred dollars and died with nothing — while the district he opened produced more than $250 million in his lifetime alone.It never closed. Today the Cripple Creek & Victor mine produces roughly 141,000 ounces a year under new ownership, with nearly seven million more ounces still in the ground and a permit decision pending that could keep it running to 2052.And the tailings from the mill that processed it? They're capped under a Colorado Springs neighborhood.Suggested tags: cripple creek gold, bob womack, colorado springs history, gold hill mesa, cripple creek and victor mine, colorado gold mining, last american gold rush, ssr mining, poverty gulch, hidden historyOne note: the description states the 141,000 oz figure and the 2052 date as current. If Amendment 14 gets decided before you publish, that last line needs updating in the description as well as the script — descriptions are the thing people forget to re-check.