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One person has died and 23 others have been rescued after an elevator malfunction at a disused Colorado gold mine.<\/p>\n

Two groups of 12 <\/b>people were touring Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek, a privately-owned tourist attraction, when the failure occurred on Thursday, leaving one group stuck below ground for six hours.<\/p>\n

In the first group, one person died while the remaining 11 tourists, including two children, were rescued from the mine, four of them with minor injuries.<\/p>\n

The second group of 12 were stranded in a tunnel at the bottom of the mine but all were returned to safety later in the day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The hour-long tour takes visitors 1,000ft (305m) down the shaft into the south-west side of Pikes Peak, according to the tour company\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

Officials say the lift descending into the gold mine had a mechanical issue around 500ft beneath the surface, creating a \u201csevere danger for the participants\u201d. <\/p>\n

“We did have one fatality that occurred during this issue at 500ft,” Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell said earlier. He did not give details.<\/p>\n

“There is an elevator issue to resolve before they could be brought up,” Sheriff Mikesell told reporters.<\/p>\n

Rescue teams used radio to communicate with the 12 others who were stuck near the bottom of the mine.<\/p>\n

“They have chairs, blankets, water and are at a safe temperature,” Sheriff Mikesell said. “This was due to an equipment malfunction. The mine did not collapse.” <\/p>\n

Several agencies, including search and rescue teams, responded to the incident with heavy equipment.<\/p>\n

Hours later, Governor Jared Polis said: “I am relieved that 12 of the people trapped in the Mollie Kathleen Mine have been safely rescued.” <\/p>\n

According to the tour company\u2019s website,<\/a> entering the 1890s gold mine is comparable to riding in a lift, complete with the sounds of mining machinery. <\/p>\n

Visitors to the Mollie Kathleen view several exposed gold veins in their natural state, the website says.<\/p>\n

The website adds that revenue from the tours is used to “maintain the mine in safe operable mining condition”.<\/p>\n

Officials say the last time an “incident” occurred there was in 1986, though they did not provide more detail.<\/p>\n

On TripAdvisor, several people described the lift as a miners “cage”. The posts, which the BBC could not verify, said conditions could be tight and claustrophobic.<\/p>\n

William Snare, a former hoist operator at the mine, told the Colorado Springs Gazette that the lift could carry between nine to 15 people.<\/a> He said it took two minutes to descend, and four to five minutes to return to the surface.<\/p>\n

The mine was named after Mollie Kathleen Gortner, the first woman in the Cripple Creek Gold Camp to strike gold in 1891.<\/p>\n

The tours were set to close this Sunday for the season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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