Plan your first visit
Just show up hungry on a Monday
There is nothing to join beforehand. Visitors and guests are always welcome.
- When
- Every Monday, 11:30 a.m. to about 1:00 p.m. No meeting on federal holidays.
- Where
- Golden Corral Buffet & Grill, 3677 South Santa Fe Drive, Sheridan, CO 80110. Southwest side, at Santa Fe Dr. and Hampden Ave.
- Cost
- Buy your own buffet lunch. Tell the cashier you are with the Miners for a reduced price. Teachers eat free.
- RSVP
- Not needed. Visitors are always welcome.
- Ask for the Miners discount at the registerTell the cashier you are with the Denver Mining Club for the reduced buffet price. Teachers eat free.
- Find the group and grab a seatTables fill with regulars, students and first-timers. Introduce yourself; someone will ask what you dig.
- Hear the talk over lunchOne speaker, one topic, from lithium brines to the mineral deposits of Ukraine. Questions are welcome.
- Put a buck or more in the gold panIt covers the speaker’s lunch and funds the club’s giving to mining museums and teacher scholarships.
- Get voted inGuests stand and introduce themselves, and the members present vote them in. You leave with a gilded certificate bearing a prospector and burro.
Getting there
Golden Corral Buffet & Grill
3677 South Santa Fe Drive
Sheridan, CO 80110
Southwest side, at Santa Fe Dr. and Hampden Ave.. We meet in a private room. Ask at the register for the Denver Mining Club.
Good to know
- Ask for the Denver Mining Club meal discount at the register. It is required for the reduced price.
- Teachers eat free: the meal ticket is refunded.
- We meet every Monday except federal holidays. Check the upcoming talks for “No meeting” days and the occasional tour held somewhere else.
- Lunch starts at 11:30 a.m. and we wrap up at about 1:00 p.m., give or take.
- Attendance ranges from 25 to 50 people.
What happens next Monday
- Upcoming
Nuggets and Gangue from Central City’s Past.
Cowboy Mike, The Wild Bunch, Central City, CO
- Auction
- Upcoming
Wait, What’s in that Trash Pile? Radiometric Surveys of Mining Waste from Airplanes and Drones.
Anjana K. Shah, Research Geophysicist, U. S. Geological Survey
