Every Visitor Gets Gifted A Lump Of Gold As A Souvenir.

https://news.sky.com/story/one-killed-and-12-trapped-underground-at-mine-tourist-attraction-in-colorado-13231713

You see they've still got plenty of Gold. It's just that without transport links to a processing facility it's worth less to them than tourists.

Not that I completely wasted my morning or anything.

I suppose there's worst places to be stuck than exactly where you were back in January though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1OP4CTaszo&pp (Buried Alive, Dropkick Murphys, Slideshow, LivingDedGrrl).