California's rich history includes a fascinating chapter of the Old West and mining towns that played a significant role in shaping the state's identity. From the Gold Rush era to the Wild West days, ...

Garnet, Montana, is one of the best ghost towns in the West, and it offers a chance to see what life was like in a 19th-century mining town. Once home to 1,000 residents and 13 saloons, Garnet was ...

The lore of this Colorado mining town named after a gold prospector is worthy of a Hollywood Western, and its remnants are ...

After the discovery of a 17-pound nugget in Little Meadow Creek, North Carolina, the state became a major hotbed of gold mining as a part of the first American gold rush in 1799. Early discoveries ...

A gold prospector has tragically died after being hit by falling rocks on a family-owned mining lease west of Mackay.

By Junaidi HanafiahSarjan LahayTeguh Suprayitno MERANGIN, Indonesia — There wasn’t much Aris Adrianto felt he could do when the gold miners’ heavy vehicles broke into Bukit Gajah Berani, here in this ...

The price of gold jumped 26% in 2024, the most since 2010, and is up almost 25% this year. Demand from central banks around the world continues to skyrocket. With ongoing wars in the Middle East and ...

The gold price shattered records in 2025. Throughout the year, the precious metal hit an all-time peak 50 times, the latest ...

Regardless of how the gold price is doing, the top gold-mining companies are always making moves. Right now, gold is in the limelight — stimulated by increasing global inflation, geopolitical turmoil ...

Mike Werner is excited about seeing what has been hidden, far beneath the ground in the mountains north of Sumpter, for a ...

As gold prices spike across the globe, illegal mining is exploding—and driving the west African country toward ecological collapse. An unhappy prospect: A group of men engaged in illegal gold mining ...

As larger, high-grade mineral deposits become harder to find and more CapEx-intensive to develop, more junior miners are ...