On Jan. 24, 1848, gold was found in California's American River. Mormon pioneers, members of Mormon Battalion were among the ...

Abandoned Places | Equinox 800 is our latest video treasure hunting. We received information years ago about a creepy abandoned bridge that was sometimes referred to as the broken bridge gold legend / ...

Investigative journalist and filmmaker Anu Adelakun discusses her investigation into the forces behind water scarcity and ...

On Oct. 8, 214 years ago, a baby boy was born in the town of Hopewell Township, New Jersey. His parents were farmers of ...

A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep mineshaft in South Africa, where hundreds of illegal miners were reported to be trapped, ...

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...

Colombia has suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, for a second time in less than a year after blaming the rebel group for violence that has been affecting the northeastern ...

Video released by a human rights group in South Africa appears to show emaciated miners and dead bodies wrapped in plastic in an abandoned mine in the country’s northwest region, although CNN is not ...

But by 1992 mining had ceased and Stibnite’s open pit mine was abandoned, polluting the East ... “This approval elevates the Stibnite Gold Project to an elite class of projects in America that have ...

By now in Colorado, we know of the Ice Castles. The frozen attraction has once again opened to great fanfare in Cripple Creek ...

The historical mining equipment was grouped in one area, seen in this October 2011 photo. (U.S. Forest Service) A Washington state man died while exploring an abandoned mine on Prince of Wales ...

They would then travel further over land, to South American gold mines operated by European colonisers. As a scholar of African history, I have dedicated my research to recovering the individual ...