Tourists trapped in Cripple Creek gold mine

Several tourists person been trapped successful a Colorado golden excavation aft an instrumentality failure, officials say.

At slightest 10 individuals who are portion of a circuit radical are stuck adjacent the bottommost of Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine successful Cripple Creek, section media report.

"This was owed to an instrumentality malfunction. The excavation did not collapse, " the Teller County Sheriff’s Office said successful a statement. There are nary details.

The now-defunct excavation offers hour-long tours by taking visitors 1,000 feet (305m) down the shaft into the south-west broadside of Pikes Peak, according to the circuit company’s website.