Several trapped, 11 rescued in Colorado mine after equipment malfunction

More than 10 radical were trapped wrong a Colorado excavation and 11 others were rescued aft an "equipment malfunction," authorities said Thursday. 

The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine successful Cripple Creek is closed for mining, but unfastened for tours, and takes visitors 1,000 feet underground.

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Entrance to the Mollie Kathleen Mine successful Cripple Creek, Colo. The historical mining municipality conscionable southbound of Colorado Springs. Tourists flock present to larn of the area's Gold Rush bequest and to acquisition a portion of the infamous Wild West.  (Nina Raingold/Getty Images)

"This was owed to an instrumentality malfunction. The excavation did not collapse," the Teller County Sheriff's Office posted online. 

The Colorado Springs Fire Department is besides responding to this incident. 

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said helium was alert of the situation. 

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The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine Tour is simply a fashionable tourer attraction. (Google Maps)

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"I person spoken to the Teller County Sheriff and County Commissioners and volition enactment successful interaction done the people of this rescue effort," helium said successful a statement. "The authorities is assisting Teller County and sending resources to rescue those wrong the mine. We volition bash everything imaginable and assistance the region to guarantee a speedy and harmless solution of the situation."