Anywhere between 5% and 30% of gold in South Africa – once the world’s top producer – is mined illegally, laundered, and ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

In a photo courtesy of Tallia Cahoon, her father, mining engineer Walter Pfrimmer, holds her on a burro in Ruby, when they lived in the town 75 miles southwest of Tucson sometime in the early 1930s.

Mali has officially completed its takeover of the Yatela and Morila gold mines, both previously abandoned by their foreign ...

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

South Africa's proposed chrome ore export tax will hurt miners' profitability and lead to job losses across the sector, the ...

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak," Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity ...

In rural Southwest Montana, a clash over tax fairness and critical services between a luxury ski community and a modest town ...

Five additional deaths have been recorded in the renewed ethnic conflict between the Akyode and Challa communities in the ...