GRAND MEADOW, MINN. – An ancient Dakota quarry is about to become a new privately maintained trail in southeast Minnesota.

Fortitude Gold says its small County Line Mine near Gabbs will require minimal construction and infrastructure, so it can be ...

Gold mining in Glen Canyon reached a zenith from 1883 to 1912; the canyon had been explored by Native Americans and Spanish explorers much earlier.

Southeastern Arizona mining history was influenced by earlier mining operations in New Mexico. One such was the gold discovery at Pinos Altos (High Pines). It is located 8 miles north ...

A retired North Dakota coal mine is set to become the new home of a nickel processing plant. Minnesota-based Talon Metals and Westmoreland Mining Co. signed an agreement Wednesday that gives Talon ...

Officials in South Dakota are pushing hard to build President Donald Trump’s proposed National Garden of American Heroes in the Black Hills near Mount Rushmore. But the effort has sparked a ...

The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie recognized that the Black Hills belong to the Sioux people, but the U.S. government seized the land less than a decade later to mine for gold.