Up On Cripple Creek by auntietk

Photography • Objects • posted on Oct 15, 2011

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Today we drove up to Cripple Creek, Colorado. You just know that song has been playing in my head all day! :D Here's a piece of information for you: The gold mines at Cripple Creek and nearby Victor produced more ounces of gold than the California and Alaska gold rushes combined. Seriously. COMBINED!!! That's just astonishing. I read it on a bronze plaque at a view point, so it must be true. They started mining gold there in 1890, stopped in the 1960s for a while (sorry ... I didn't get all the facts) and then started up again several years ago. It's now an active, open-pit operation.

Comments (24)

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Sea_Dog

10:45PM | Sat, 15 October 2011

Nice POV. Well done.

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Blush

10:45PM | Sat, 15 October 2011

Great pic sweetie Hugs Susan~

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RodS

11:06PM | Sat, 15 October 2011

She sends me.... Delightful framing, Tara! Love these old steam engines! An excellent photo, my friend! You've even managed to get nice detail in the shadows - in full sun, too!

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ocoee53

11:06PM | Sat, 15 October 2011

Great image! I love the heavy iron castings in this old mine machinery. I spent a lot of time around Cripple Creek in Colorado years ago. There is also a Cripple Creek here in Tennessee; I used to pan for gold there. Nothing like the Colorado mine, but i did find about $200 in flakes and small nuggets there. Thanks for bringing those good memories back!

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jocko500

11:52PM | Sat, 15 October 2011

wonderful shot

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awjay

1:00AM | Sun, 16 October 2011

superb composition

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durleybeachbum

2:08AM | Sun, 16 October 2011

A perfect compo, and such BLUE sky!

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Katraz

2:25AM | Sun, 16 October 2011

Great shot love the contrast.

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helanker

2:56AM | Sun, 16 October 2011

WOW! A gold mine! A wonderful almost abstract capture. So clean against the wonderfully blue sky.

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Meisiekind

3:13AM | Sun, 16 October 2011

Of course I love the excellent POV and cool info Hun. Yeah - I sit on a "hollow" city after the goldrush that started Johannesburg.... :(

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jayfar

4:34AM | Sun, 16 October 2011

Looks a great landscape through the great bit of engineering.

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tofi

7:03AM | Sun, 16 October 2011

Seems like it must have been a wonderful adventure! Excellent lighting, Tara! Such a massive structure, and the POV is wonderful, depicting only so much as to just imagine the entire stature of this! I like the colours as well, and the way we can see through the "holes" to the other end of this lovely place!

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debbielove

7:45AM | Sun, 16 October 2011

What a great POV! Love it and a fascinating place to visit, must have been very interesting? A fine shot, well done.. Rob

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fallen21

9:25AM | Sun, 16 October 2011

Awesome shot.

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Faemike55

10:09AM | Sun, 16 October 2011

Great capture, Tara very interesting about the gold production

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MrsRatbag

11:04AM | Sun, 16 October 2011

I never knew that, I always thought the west coast mining was the biggest producer in this country. Go figure. Great capture of this slightly rusty but clearly well-used old piece of machinery. That one little line of white cloud is marvelous!

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