A spectacular adventure awaits visitors on the Mollie Kathleen Mine tour. The nation’s only historic gold mine tour descends 1,000 feet below ground, where visitors learn about the workings of the 1890s hard rock gold miner. Guided tours allow visitors to explore the overlapping evolution of all four mining phases used to extract gold from the Mollie Kathleen, beginning with a ride on a skip (elevator) to the lower working levels of the mine. Visitors witness the operation of numerous pieces of air-powered gold mining equipment and ride aboard the last air-powered Tram-Air Locomotive. This educational tour reveals how gold veins appear in their natural state and explains the processes used to extract the gold ore for production.
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Visitors will marvel at the country’s only 1,000-foot vertical shaft
gold mine tour. This educational experience will explore the
underground workings of an 1890s hard rock gold mine.
