Deep beneath South Dakota, a former gold mine is being reborn as one of the coldest and most ambitious science facilities on ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 3,000-year-old gold mining and processing complex that opens a rare window into how an ancient imperial economy actually worked. Instead of a single shaft or ...

Today, most people visiting our public lands are aware of the principles of Leave No Trace. One easy way to remember the 7 ...

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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A gold rush brought settlers to South Dakota’s Black Hills about 150 years ago, chasing the dream of wealth and displacing Native Americans in the process. Now, a new crop of ...

DILLON (AP) - A mining engineer and his business partner have a plan to process tailings from a century-old gold mine near Melrose, hoping to extract more gold from the tailings while also cleaning up ...

LEAD, S.D. (AP) -- A former gold mine that yielded riches for more than a century is poised to spend the next half-century offering scientific prospectors a deeper understanding of the universe. More ...

Old Hundred Gold Mine near Silverton turns abandoned site into the region’s most unique mine tour. The Old Hundred Gold Mine near Silverton is the only mine tour in the San Juan Mountains where ...