Discover the charm and history of these towns in California that offer a glimpse into a vibrant past where the Wild West ...

Wildfire in Northern California has scorched more than 12,000 acres as of Wednesday morning, burning homes in the Gold Rush town of Chinese Camp.

Corporations are seeking approval to explore for and extract gold by digging vast pit mines in South Dakota's Black Hills.

More than a century of mining in the Witwatersrand has left behind vast mine dumps stretching from Randfontein to Springs. But at the Brakpan tailings facility, ...

With its mining sector now outranking Western Australia in terms of attractiveness, New Zealand is starting to draw miners to its shores.

Augustus Minerals is zeroing in on outcropping veins with visible gold across its Music Well ground north of Leonora, where rock chips have run to a sky-high 122.8g/t. Heritage surveys are underway ...

Explore Arizona’s ghost towns where mining ruins, roaming burros, and preserved relics reveal haunting echoes of the Wild ...

Lab-scale trials of the Jet Electrochemical Silver Extraction technology of LU7 have turned solar panel junk into high-value ...

Miners want to return to the treasured landscape, promising an economic boost while raising fears of how modern gold extraction could forever change the region.

Grass Valley was once the beating heart of California’s gold country. Today it still has that rough-and-tumble mining town feel. The Empire Mine State Historic Park shows how miners lived and worked.

The ABC has obtained a voice recording of a WA police officer laughing about the suicide of an Aboriginal prisoner. It comes ...