The Bingham Canyon Mine won't get any deeper, but it might get wider than the current 2.5-mile span of the giant hole Rio ...

Crews appear to be making progress in extinguishing a series of lightning-sparked fires as they begin to assess damage in the ...

As the price of gold nears $3,500 per ounce, investor interest in gold companies remains high. However, soaring stock market valuations have complicated mergers and acquisitions. In this environment, ...

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 ...

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

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

In 1960, Lekumberry, with his wife Shirley and his brother Pete, acquired one of those boarding houses: the J.T. Basque Bar and Dining Room. Jean tended bar while Pete worked in the kitchen. Shirley ...

While the San Diego Padres are battling to stay neck and neck with the Dodgers in the race for the NL West division crown, ...

Some cultures value gold jewellery above all when it comes to gifts for special events such as weddings or birthdays. But with the price up around 70 per cent in the last five years, more people are ...

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.

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

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