Deep in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, a working industrial pit has given way to something far older and stranger than modern ...

After the discovery of a 17-pound nugget in Little Meadow Creek, North Carolina, the state became a major hotbed of gold mining as a part of the first American gold rush in 1799. Early discoveries ...

The small community of Gold Hill continues its year-long bicentennial celebration with the annual Founder’s Day on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Gold Hill Mines Historic Park and Village of Gold ...

Gold has been a major force in American history, encouraging expansion to the west. Some of the nation’s most famous Gold Rushes were responsible for the creation of boomtowns and inspired individuals ...

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths of ...

A little over a hundred years ago, Breckenridge, and much of Summit County, looked a lot different than it does today. Instead of the county being filled with short-term rental properties with ...

One of the Rock Hill region’s biggest businesses turns rocks into gold. Increasingly, Haile Gold Mine also produces green — as in an annual economic impact statewide of $717.5 million. The Lancaster ...

B2Gold ends the year after seamlessly pivoting from launching Canada’s newest Arctic gold mine to complex talks in ...

One of my favourite recent discoveries sits hidden in the wooded hills of Carmarthenshire, where the Romans were mining gold ...

Nothing on the surface of this scrubby expanse of western Nevada desert, overlooked by towering, craggy mountains, gives even ...