moment played out on July 28, 1862, when he discovered gold at Grasshopper ... who studied a satellite mining district of Virginia City. The big money wasn’t in manning pick, shovel and sluice ...

Early exploitation of these deposits was by pick, shovel and blasting powder ... During World War II, the U.S. government halted gold mining operations nationwide as nonessential to the war ...

A new analysis of archived satellite imagery has revealed that the growing presence of small-scale mining in the Peruvian ...

Aurumin has moved closer to cashflows in a JV with contract miner Newcam, which will spend up to $4M to farm into its gold ...

A soaring gold price is powering a bid to revive the Bullabulling mine near Coolgardie, as new developers line up to join a ...

Peru is to impose a curfew and temporarily suspended gold mining in the northern district of Pataz where 13 people were killed after a kidnapping inside a gold mine. Mining in Pataz in Peru's ...

Backcountry runners are embracing the physical and emotional challenge of racing with pack burros that don’t always move at their pace. Burro races honor Old West ...

The only currently available ores are Coal, Silver, and Gold, and here ... defensive items. While mining is important, it can be tedious because it takes 40 hits from a Shovel to get ore from one rock ...

“During the gold rush, it’s a good time to be in the pick and shovel business,” reflecting ... scams arising from funding some questionable mining projects. I last wrote about the Direxion ...

But there could be a more sinister contributing factor. Ghana’s illegal gold mining sector, locally called ‘galamsey’, is having a significant impact on cocoa prices, the FT reported. Many cocoa ...