Perpetua Resources, the mining company planning to dig in the mountains outside McCall, promises to clean up the site — including the damage done by decades of previous mining.

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, fueling Stockton's rapid growth, many are still digging for riches all ...

An incident at a former Colorado gold mine that killed a man ... involved dropping a harness down the mine shaft with a rope and bringing people up one at a time. While authorities were conducting ...

South African authorities sought to end illegal gold mining in a derelict gold mine in Stilfontein. Their strategy was to cut off the supplies that were being sent down to the miners to keep them ...

South African authorities have argued that the miners were always able to exit through another shaft at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, one of the deepest ... say at least 100 have died.

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 ...

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 ...

Authorities began laying siege to the Stilfontein gold mine in August amid claims that at least 100 men were mining illegally ... saying the group is trapped underground in one of South Africa's ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold ... the mine, located around 97 miles (156 kilometers) southwest of Johannesburg. The video, filmed by one of ...