A short hike from the main drag of restored Gold Rush-era buildings in South Pass City sits an idle, nine-ton piece of machinery called a stamp mill. It has moved four times during its nearly 150 ...

"The Carissa Mine, like South Pass City itself, was Wyoming's first real boom and bust community," he said. "The actual mine is probably one of the oldest in the state." South Pass City sprang up ...

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A new gold rush could be on the horizon after geologists re-examined an abandoned site in Wyoming. The Carissa Gold Mine at South Pass City attracted thousands of laborers in 1867 - but it was ...

SOUTH PASS — Beginning in 1868 South Pass City was the center of economic life in the Dakota Territory, gold had been found the previous spring and thousands of miners flocked to South Pass City to ...

LARAMIE The price of gold remains low but interest is still high in prospecting for the precious metal in Wyoming, state geologists say. The best place in the state to search for high-grade gold is ...