The hole was originally the vent for shaft 11 at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, an operation so vast that it produced 1% of ...

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

Recently, archaeologists unearthed a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mining camp in the Sukari Mountains. Crews found evidence of ancient gold mining, processing, and purification. The archaeological ...

One of the century’s largest gold finds is in Ivory Coast's Doropo mine - over 100 tons spark a $500 million mine plan and ...

Lucas Lundgren has spend the past year around Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa prospecting and panning for gold in ...

Contrary to what most people assume, the gold rush didn’t end in the 1800s. Across the U.S., people still pull real gold from rivers, streams, and old mining sites simply with a shovel and a gold pan.

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