We discovered a hidden piece of mining history – an old gold mine site complete with original stamp mill equipment and a ...

A tour guide for the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine Tour in Colorado was identified as the lone death following an elevator mishap that trapped 23 others who were rescued.

FILE - A sign welcomes visitors to a lab 4,850 feet beneath the earth, Wednesday, May 30, 2012, where the Sanford Underground Research Facility inside the now-shuttered Homestake Gold Mine in Lead ...

The American heyday of gold mining may ... Until folks from the Inactive Mine Reclamation Program came around many decades later — in some cases welding mines closed with old equipment still inside.

Seen from above, Sukari gold mine in southeastern Egypt looks like a massive chasm with terraced sides. A rock formation looms next to the pit, and toy-sized machines move around inside it.

Illegal mining continues to be ... assist as many as 4,000 illegal miners that are currently trapped inside a closed mine. ... be widespread in South Africa's old gold-mining ...

Inside South Africa's 'ruthless' gang-controlled gold mines. ... Many do not make it out alive," said the 52-year-old, ... for a gold-mining company until he was laid off in 1996.

FILE - A sign welcomes visitors to a lab 4,850 feet beneath the earth, Wednesday, May 30, 2012, where the Sanford Underground Research Facility inside the now-shuttered Homestake Gold Mine in Lead ...