By the time Newhouse started the Argo Tunnel in 1893, mining in Gilpin County was on the decline, but tens of millions of dollars in gold had been removed. Pumping costs had contributed greatly to ...

A short documentary greets tourists at the Argo Mill and Tunnel. “It was the center of the universe for gold in Colorado and in the West for many years,” Mary Jane Loevlie narrates in the video.

IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo. — More than 70 years after it closed, the Argo Tunnel at the Argo Gold Mine and Mill in Idaho Springs, reopened on Wednesday. A group of investors purchased the historic ...

IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4)- The Argo Tunnel and Mill has been the focal point of Idaho Springs for more than 100 years and its new owners want to not only preserve it, but develop some of the ...

Back in the day, the Argo Tunnel ferried gold ore into one of the state’s busiest mills and drained water from mines in the renowned “richest square mile on earth” around Central City.

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado’s sky-high views have been wondered at from the ground and the sky, and a new cable car project at The Argo Mill and Tunnel will provide a new view experience — as ...

This, all on the Central City Clear Creek Superfund Site and adjacent to a state health department-operated water treatment plant that siphons hundreds of pounds of metals from the Argo tunnel ...

Mary Jane Loevlie owns the Argo Gold Mill and Tunnel property and had worked behind the scenes with a team to come up with a plan for the future of this historic Colorado landmark. Developers ...

Back in the day, the Argo Tunnel ferried gold ore into one of the state’s busiest mills and drained water from mines in the renowned “richest square mile on earth” around Central City.