abandoned trailers given over to rust surrounded by a couple of eviscerated refrigerators. The brown craggy mountains, characteristic of Nevada’s particular basin and range landscape, rise up all ...

The watershed is located in northwestern Boulder County, near the towns of Ward and Jamestown in the area of the historic Jamestown Mining District. The residents of Ward and Jamestown essentially ...

This historic ghost town boasts some unique landmarks, including a whimsical bottle house and a nearby open-air museum ...

Tesla was recently holding acquisition talks with a Nevada-based mining company to advance its ambitious plan to source lithium from clay deposits in the US, but the electric-car company was ...

The Gold Bug Mine tour, in Gold Bug Park in Placerville, is led by a ghost inside the only gold mine owned by a California ...

PARK COUNTY — Polluted water leaking from thousands of abandoned mines in Colorado’s mountains is turning wetlands orange and dumping toxic dissolved metals in the headwaters of many of the ...

Thanks to record gold prices Perpetua Resources is set to resurrect an Idaho mine to supply the Pentagon with vital weapons-grade antimony, bust a Chinese monopoly, and rehab 20 miles of back country ...

[Photo/VCG] Once a bustling hub of coal mining activity in Southwest China ... the village established a cooperative — making full use of the abandoned land to develop orange and grapefruit ...

UK scientists mapped the world's 22,609 active and 159,735 abandoned metal mines and calculated the extent of pollution from them. Chemicals can leach from mining operations into soil and waterways.