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 ...

A 54-year-old hiker’s fatal fall into an abandoned mine shaft near Ouray last month highlights a broader danger left behind ...

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Explore NJ’s mining legacy and rare glowing minerals at Sterling Hill Mining Museum Journey beneath the Garden State to uncover New Jersey’s rich legacy of mining and innovation. From colonial copper ...

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, ...

William A. Clark, established a solid copper mining operation at the United Verde Mine with smelters onsite at Jerome and later Clarkdale. Mining accelerated in the Verde Mining District as the area ...

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 ...

pt. 1, v. 1. Iron processing and iron mining on and near Mine Hill in Franklin, and on and near Sterling Hill in Ogdensburg, 1765-1850; The zinc deposits at Mine Hill and Sterling Hill; The Ogden and ...

When work began at the South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall, Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne, the first English settlement in America had only just been established, and the world’s trade with the ...

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Victor was once so big the town scored a New York Times headline in 1899. Unfortunately, it was to report bad news: “Fire in a Colorado Town: Business Section of Victor, Near Cripple Creek, Destroyed ...