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Colorado officials said Thursday 1 idiosyncratic is dormant and 12 radical are trapped underground aft an elevator malfunctioned astatine a erstwhile golden excavation adjacent the municipality of Cripple Creek.
The elevator was descending into the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine erstwhile the unspecified mishap happened astatine astir 500 feet beneath the surface.
The 12 radical are present astatine the bottommost of the mine, 1,000 feet beneath the surface. Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell said they are harmless and are talking with authorities, arsenic rescue unit enactment to repair the elevator.
"The authorities is assisting Teller County and sending resources to rescue those wrong the mine," Colorado Governor Jared Polis said successful a statement. "We volition bash everything imaginable and assistance the region to guarantee a speedy and harmless solution of the situation."
The golden excavation opened successful the 1800s and continued cognition until the 1960s. It is present a tourer attraction, and visitors tin spot veins of golden during the tour, according to the mine's website.
Mollie Kathleen Gortner was the archetypal women to observe golden and onslaught a assertion successful her ain sanction astatine the golden campy wherever the excavation is located. The website posted, "This was intelligibly a bold determination retired of measurement with the times. ... It was precise uncommon to fto a pistillate assertion thing of specified value."
Cripple Creek is simply a municipality of astir 1,100 radical located southwest of Colorado Springs.
Some accusation successful this study came from Reuters and The Associated Press.
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