Deep in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, a working industrial pit has given way to something far older and stranger than modern ...

A former gold mine bunker that hovers above the historic Arizona mining town of Bisbee has been put on the market for $277,000—offering a unique opportunity to turn the deserted cave into the "crown ...

The wildcat gold mining boom that swept across the Amazon beginning in the 1970s left behind an environmental catastrophe of ...

Recently, archaeologists unearthed a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mining camp in the Sukari Mountains. Crews found evidence of ancient gold mining, processing, and purification. The archaeological ...

The hole was originally the vent for shaft 11 at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, an operation so vast that it produced 1% of ...

The National Park Service and owners of the Colosseum Mine in San Bernardino County, shown in 2025, have been involved in a years-long dispute. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times) Deep in the Mojave ...

Why are many drawn to old mining towns? Likely for a mix of many reasons including, historic and cultural ones. And that these places make visitors feel as though they’ve entered a time capsule.

Nothing on the surface of this scrubby expanse of western Nevada desert, overlooked by towering, craggy mountains, gives even ...