Bohemia Mining Days returns to Cottage Grove this week for its 66th year to celebrate the region’s Gold Rush-era history. The festival runs Thursday through Saturday and features live music, ...

An 1800s miner's cottage in Golden Point sold under the hammer well above reserve after aggressive bidding from a buyer's ...

Genealogy, geology and history are passions of mine. They don’t mesh very often, but this true story combines all three. In the mid-1800s, miners from the copper and tin-rich Cornwall region … ...

Decaying today, the structures were once home to miners who dreamed of gold in the late 1800s, according to Backpacker. The Boston Mine ghost town on the Mayflower Gulch Trail in Colorado.

From trading platforms to cloud mining services, investors are gradually entering a new era of "light operation and high ...

Augustus C. Brichta was such a strong advocate of education that he worked two months without pay as the area's first school sputtered and then closed.

Located at 2885 Hwy 14 in Cerrillos, this property was originally built in the 1800s as a miner’s boarding house and now supports a successful grocery store and owner’s residence.

According to History Colorado, the mines brought droves of people looking for gold, silver and other gems in the 1800s. While the mines brought an economic change to Colorado, it also came with an ...

Today the underground shafts of old copper mines on Ireland's west coast have a mysterious beauty. In the 1800s, miners who labored hours underground risking explosions, deadly gas, falling stone ...

We stepped back in time while exploring an abandoned 1800s gold mine deep in the hills of Georgia. In this video, we follow old tracks, examine hand-dug tunnels, and uncover relics from the state ...

MOORESBURG -- A recent discovery at the Mooresburg One-Room School reveals the day-to-day lives of miners more than 100 years ago. While going through items at the school that is now a museum ...