Silverton’s Hardrocker Holidays games this weekend celebrate Colorado’s mining past

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Man using a hard rock power drill tries to break up a rock in a mining games competition.
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Terry Rhoades, who mined for a quarter century, drills into solid rock during a mining games competition in Ouray in 2022. His father helped start Silverton’s Hardrocker Holidays, the oldest mining games in Colorado, in which Rhoades has participated every single year.