While ghost town enthusiasts can't visit this crumbling deserted California town that was once a desert oasis, they can learn ...

In the 1800s, gold, silver and copper booms lured miners and immigrants looking for a better life. Though the mines ...

This land is your land — until a foreign mining company wants it,” writes the owner and caretaker of a historic 19th-century mining town in Inyo.

California’s Department of Conservation revenue comes from gold mining, and Nevada’s program receives $10 for every mining claim submitted in the state. Nevada’s abandoned-mine program ...

The plan would allow K2 Gold, a Canadian mining company, to cut new roads and drill up to 30 sites across one of the last intact stretches of California ... scarred land, abandoned roads and ...

Scientists in a new study have found that gold mining in South America makes restoration of the Amazon rainforest impossible.

This year’s gold and silver legislative push comes roughly a decade after Texas created the country’s first state-run ...

We’re sicker than before.” This is how Indigenous leader Hidelmara Kirixi described health conditions in Munduruku ...