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Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine inspection complete after fatality, tours can resume
An inspection of the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek prompted by an elevator malfunction that killed tour guide Patrick Weier and left 23 stranded for hours has wrapped up, according to a news release Wednesday from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. The mine closed in the 1960s and has since been turned into…
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Mollie Kathleen inspections had been ‘satisfactory’
A news release from the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety announced that prior safety inspections of the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine raised no concerns before the Oct. 10 fatal accident. Patrick Weier, 46, a resident of Victor and a tour guide at the mine, died as a result of an elevator malfunction, according…
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Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine ordered closed after fatal accident; inspections had been ‘satisfactory’
A news release from the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety announced Thursday that prior safety inspections of the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine raised no concerns before the fatal accident last week. According to previous Gazette reporting, on Oct. 10 one person died and several people became stuck at the bottom of the Mollie Kathleen…
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Hundreds turn out to honor Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine worker: ‘We’re never going to forget him’
On a cool, sunny Thursday morning, Cripple Creek was transformed as local resident Patrick Weier was memorialized. Weier died a week earlier in an equipment malfunction at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine. Twenty-three visitors were eventually rescued from the tourist mine on the edge of town. Weier was not. Usually vibrant, Cripple Creek’s main drag,…
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1 dead, 23 rescued at Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek
CRIPPLE CREEK • One person died, four were injured and 23 rescued after an equipment malfunction during tours of the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek on Oct. 10, according to the Teller County Sheriff’s Office. By 7:15 p.m., the 12 who had remained trapped for close to seven hours at the bottom of…
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Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine victim identified in fatal equipment malfunction
The person who died in the Oct. 10 elevator malfunction during tours at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek was identified as Patrick Weier, a tour guide at the mine. Weier, 46, is survived by a 7-year-old son, officials with the Teller County Sheriff’s Office said during a news conference Friday. Weier was…
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Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine victim identified in fatal accident; ‘door was broken’
Editor’s note: This story has been updated multiple times since its original time of publication. DIVIDE • The person who died in Thursday’s elevator malfunction during tours at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek was identified as Patrick Weier, a tour guide at the mine. Meanwhile, officials pointed to a broken door on the…
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1 dead, 23 rescued at Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek after equipment malfunction
CRIPPLE CREEK • One person died, four were injured and 23 rescued after an equipment malfunction during tours Thursday of the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek, according to the Teller County Sheriff’s Office. By 7:15 p.m., the 12 who had remained trapped for more than six hours at the bottom of the tourist mine…
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History of Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek
The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine, site of a deadly incident Thursday, is a former gold mine now turned into a tourist destination in Cripple Creek that takes guests on a vertical descent 100 floors below ground, according to its website. The mine was named after Mollie Kathleen Gortner, who in 1891 became the first woman in…