"We know the next boom-and-bust rush for critical minerals is coming for our public lands, and this bill takes long-overdue steps to protect our national parks and our American heritage."—Charlie ...

Two teenage boys were killed on Tuesday after a pit collapsed at an abandoned gold mining site in Nyimbadu village, in Sierra Leone’s Eastern Province.

Since 2017, Paramount Gold has been planning to use cyanide to extract gold and silver out of hundreds of acres of Eastern ...

The U.S. Army is developing small-scale refineries and backing domestic projects like the Stibnite Gold Project to establish ...

Discover Michigan’s forgotten ghost towns—from buried ports to eerie cemeteries—where mining ruins, lost communities, and ...

A massive gold mine abandoned for 33 years is suddenly back in the spotlight, stirring old ambitions and new tensions as a ...

Washington enjoyed a brief moment in the sunshine during the Gold Rush, but this abandoned mining town is a testament to how ...

According to the Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety (CDRMS), there are around 23,000 inactive and abandoned mines around Colorado. While this feature of the Centennial State’s ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: After over a year of work, the ...

As the first anniversary of North Jersey's Route 80 sinkhole shutdown approaches, motorists traumatized by six months of time-consuming detours may wonder: Could it happen again? Hoping to avoid a ...

Deep inside an abandoned mine in the Krusne hory (Ore Mountains) of northwest Czech Republic, Jakub Kristek's radiation meter crackles with urgency as he picks up a fist-sized rock. "Uranium ore," he ...