We all know that arsenic kills people — it kills the fish, it kills wildlife, it kills people,” she said at a recent meeting ...

The National Park Service broke the law when it greenlit an Australian company’s mining operations in the Mojave National ...

The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food ...

Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to ...

Out in the Mojave Desert, two towns once thrived on one thing: gold. Ragtown and Stedman grew quickly after major discoveries ...

In the 1800s, many people headed west to mine for precious metals. However, some of the towns these prospectors built no ...

The state of Colorado is known as a fantastic hiking destination, but its trails through former Gold Rush towns and abandoned mines deserve more attention.

In South Dakota, five ghost towns reveal the rise and fall of communities, from the quiet remnants of East Sioux Falls to ...

A public meeting was held in Copper Cliff earlier this week for a proposed quarry site to serve the Long Lake gold ...

A businessman who owns a chunk of the failed Couran Cove resort has demanded the state government step in to end a years-long ...