Was started as a tourist mine in Black Hawk
When Jack Turner of Black Hawk started opening up the Little Colonel Mine, he meant it to be a tourist attraction, a sort of hard rocker primer in which visitors could see what a gold mine looked like without endangering their lives. Unfortunately, the Little Colonel actually turned out to be a real mine.
After years of mining from Alaska to Bolivia, and after having an arm crushed under a drive belt and large assortment of bones broken in mine accidents and a Tolland Tunnel cave-in, Jack had given up mining for the less rigorous job of operating his Black Hawk Trading Post. Now he is back in the mining business again.
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