In the 1800s, gold, silver and copper booms lured miners and immigrants looking for a better life. Though the mines ...

Mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife are on the rise despite reductions in mercury release, according to a new study ...

Rio Vista hugs the banks of the Sacramento River in the California Delta region. This waterfront town offers affordable living with plenty of fishing and boating opportunities. Housing costs run about ...

One of the Rock Hill region’s biggest businesses turns rocks into gold. Increasingly, Haile Gold Mine also produces green — ...

No U.S. judoka — man or woman — had ever won an Olympic gold medal before Harrison beat Britain’s Gemma Gibbons to win the ...

This old-timey saloon is serving cold beer with a side of Wild West, where you can explore a gold mine and 19th-century bank ...

Mansfied, G. Fisher and J. Ahl in 1849, the area — sometimes referred to as the Old Terrible Mine — was one of the primary producers of gold in the Dragoon Mountains. But several decades would ...

Judy Slack, a local historian and the vice president of the Big Horn City Historical Society, said building a city on the top of Bald Mountain — a peak more ...

A native of Hyde Park, Vermont, he ventured to California to participate in its gold rush during the early ... Richard J. 1000 Old Arizona Mines. Frontier Book Co. Fort Davis, Texas.

That torrent is poisoning aquatic life and tainting drinking water sources in Montana, California ... Companies that built mines for silver, lead, gold and other "hardrock" minerals could move ...

In the scorching heart of California’s southeast lies ... miners who endured brutal summers chasing gold. From historic leaching vats to distant mine shafts carved into the hills, it’s a ...

A 16-year-old teen was rescued from a 50-foot deep mine shaft in Northern California on Monday after ... malfunctions underground in Colorado gold mine: Sheriff Once crews arrived on the scene ...