Is there still gold in California? Why the gold rush lives on 200 years later
More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.
Tour guide at former Colorado gold mine fell out of elevator after apparently not latching door
A tour guide killed at a former Colorado gold mine last year fell out of a crowded elevator taking tourists below ground after apparently not latching its door closed, documents obtained by The ...
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How Directors Mine the Gold at the Heart of Wagner’s ‘Ring’
Whether that evil is the gold mines or diamond ... A universal power, one might say. It gives them magic abilities; they can change into different shapes. One turns into an old woman, one turns ...
New York Post22d
Dozens of survivors, dead pulled from abandoned South African mine as hundreds remain underground
At least 60 bodies and 92 survivors had been pulled from one of South Africa’s deepest ... the issue at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, where more than 100 miners are believed to have died ...
CBS News22d
At least 100 people reportedly dead in illegal South African gold mine as rescues continue
Six more bodies have been recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa ... the BBC reported. Over 100 people who were illegally mining in the abandoned mine have reportedly died since ...
Winnipeg Free Press22d
Alamos Gold starts clock on Lynn Lake mines
It’s official: Alamos Gold Inc. has announced it will build the province’s first new mine in a decade with the redevelopment of two old gold mines ... mines in Ontario: one in the Kirkland ...
The Irish News23d
Tyrone gold mine: Planning Appeals Committee must allow no questions to go unanswered
Canadian firm Dalradian Gold wants to mine gold, silver ... But as the PAC put their questions, one thing was clear… the north is in no way equipped to deal with such complex planning ...
The Citizen27d
Blyvoor Gold tragedy: Miner killed, 20 injured in rockfall at Carletonville mine
One of the miners involved ... The Blyvoor Gold mine operation is situated in the Witwatersrand Basin, a geological deposit billions of years old which has produced a third of all the world ...
BBC24d
Clean water and air concerns for protesters as gold mine inquiry opens
One resident ... it could yield 100 tonnes of gold, 48 tonnes of silver and 15,000 tonnes of copper in its 20 to 25-year lifetime. A planning application for the mine was first submitted in ...
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Deadly Cripple Creek gold mine accident was result of operator error, report says
The accident happened about noon Oct. 10 in the elevator that takes people 1,000 feet down the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine. The tour guide, 46-year-old Patrick ... season. One day after the accident ...
Houston Chronicle23d
At least 100 illegal miners have died while trapped in a South African mine for months, group says
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ... A man filming on the phone in one of the videos can be heard saying, “this is ...