Summit County loves its history. If you don’t believe me, try taking a tour sometime. I’ve had the privilege of taking two such journeys this fall. This first, was set up by Breckenridge Heritage ...

Westmoreland County’s deep coal mining history will be explored during a March 14 program at the Westmoreland History Education Center at Historic Hanna’s Town on Forbes Trail Road in Hempfield.

ANTIOCH, Calif. -- Antioch's Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve offers visitors a unique opportunity to learn about California's rich mining history. "It's not often that you get to go to a park ...

Local and longtime Durango resident Christopher George is an enthusiastic transplant from Surry, England. A survivor of Nazi bombardments, George first came to the state in 1967 after his friend, ...

MELROSE, Mont. — On the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, you will find some of the most unusual remnants of Montana's mining history. In a narrow valley, off a gravel road near Melrose, they ...

Mining is the process of extracting valuable minerals, metals and other resources from the earth. This may entail extracting minerals from underground deposits or from the earth’s surface. The ...

TELLER COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) - Scientists believe it was approximately 35 million years ago when a volcanic eruption left deposits of gold just below the surface in Teller County. It wasn’t until the ...

Underneath the surface of a resort town that pulls in hundreds of thousands of skiers per year lives a mining history that’s nearly a century deep. If it were not for historians and an interest from ...

Unless you are given to chronic anxiety or suffer from nihilistic despair, you probably haven’t spent much time contemplating the bottom of the ocean. Many people imagine the seabed to be a vast ...