Its new purpose: recovering precious metals, like gold, from electronic waste. And turning that metal into jewelry. Here’s how. In the late 1960s, the Royal Mint moved from its home in the Tower ...

left behind by decades of mining when South Africa was the world’s biggest gold producer. It’s also operating century-old underground shafts around Barberton, the site of the country’s first ...

Here, they'll refuel their bodies after a long, hot day working above and below ground at Newmont's gold mine in the Northern Territory's remote Tanami Desert. On a busy day, more than 800 fly-in ...

A massive search operation is currently underway at Moonee Beach, a stretch of coastline north of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales. The focus of this desperate effort is 21-year-old Taewoo Kim ...

The highway's guardrail still hung suspended in the air across the gaping 40-foot-wide (12-meter) hole, which opened up when an abandoned mine collapsed under the highway's right shoulder Thursday ...

CLAY COUNTY, Ky. (FOX 56) — Two people have died in an early morning landslide on Friday in Clay County. According to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, it happened around 1 a.m. on Friday in ...

Seventeen Chinese men have been arrested on suspicion of running an illegal gold mine in Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said there on Friday, as the government pressed on with a ...

Africa's largest gold mine has become one of the greenest on the continent. Kibali, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has set new standards in eco-friendly practices, with much of its ...

Seventeen years ago, Bill Martin was slogging it out in the “rough” world of FIFO mining when “some deads--t” burst his bubble by outing him in the workplace. The 65-year-old, who has been ...

The Simberi gold mine in PNG, which is owned by a subsidiary of ASX-listed miner St Barbara. The $210 million tax demand is higher than the $194 million of cash noted in St Barbara’s latest ...

Johannesburg, South Africa - Hundreds of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, will spend Christmas day underground. The government ...