During an archaeological survey conducted in February, researchers from the Maritime Encounters program at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, identified six previously unregistered Bronze Age mines ...

A study by the UAB and the University of A Coruña has succeeded in demonstrating the existence of Roman-era alluvial gold ...

According to a report in The Salt Lake Tribune, construction work at the Alta Ski Area in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains has uncovered 150-year-old artifacts left behind by late nineteenth-century residents ...

Moonlight Resources (ASX:ML8) and Green & Gold Minerals (ASX:GG1) are two of the newer ASX players focused on underexplored gold terrain in Queensland. Green & Gold is advancing its Mt Wandoo gold ...

Beneath southern Poland, the Wieliczka Salt Mine has transformed from a medieval industrial powerhouse into a surreal underground world of chapels, sculptures and salt-lined tunnels visitors can taste ...

Beneath a complex of waterfront townhouses and residences in Sydney lies the history of Australia's deepest coal mine. What was once a working class, coal-fuelled borough is now some of the inner west ...

STRAFFORD, Vt. (WCAX) - On this day in history came the closing of a Vermont copper mine and the start of a long environmental cleanup. On Feb. 12, 1958, the Elizabeth Mine in Strafford ceased ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 5, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: Feb. 4, 1980 ...

At the end of January 2026, a massive landslide struck the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern DR Congo, engulfing several hand-dug tunnels and killing more than 200 people, with dozens more injured. The ...

Rubaya mine produces about 15% of the world’s coltan, which is processed into tantalum, used in mobile phones More than 200 people were killed this week in a collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine in ...

Although copper has been mined in the area surrounding Oak Flat off and on since the 1870s, the current struggle over the fate of the campground — deemed sacred by Apaches and other Native peoples and ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — The history of much of northeastern Pennsylvania is coming to life through artwork. An exhibit at the University of Scranton takes us to the time when coal was king. Jon Meyer got a ...