Environmental advocates and local tribes in Inyo County are rallying against a proposed gold mining project that threatens to ...

To answer these questions, it is easiest to start with the amount of gold that humans have mined to date. The U.S. Geological ...

Silver Mines is still trudging through the regulatory morass surrounding its planned Bowdens silver mine in New South Wales, so it has decided to spread its ...

The San Jose galleon was believed to be holding gold, silver, gemstones and other treasure worth billions of dollars when it was sunk in 1708.

While ghost town enthusiasts can't visit this crumbling deserted California town that was once a desert oasis, they can learn ...

Once a booming gold rush town, Bodie now stands eerily still in “arrested decay.” We explore California’s best ghost town, where dusty streets and weathered buildings tell the haunting story of a life ...