MIDLAND - A baby deer was rescued by firefighters after it fell into an abandoned gold mine shaft in Cabarrus County this week.

This is part five of a series on the operation to evict illegal gold miners from Munduruku Indigenous territories. Read part ...

In the 1800s, gold, silver and copper booms lured miners and immigrants looking for a better life. Though the mines eventually closed, visitors are fortunate to visit these fascinating destinations ...

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

In the Peruvian Amazon, forests aren’t bouncing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged, but because the ...

The storied Deep Creek Cemetery is being restored after years of neglect. Here's how a community-driven effort is bringing ...

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.

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 ...

Fiske, director of the National Alliance for Water Innovation at the Energy Department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab California ... of thousands of abandoned mines have contaminated ...