Officials in Colombia hope phytoremediation is applied in other places damaged by mining, after seeing quick and dramatic results in Río Viejo and other sites.

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

Here are expanded descriptions for all 20 ghost towns in Colorado: ...

Experience the Wild West by attending the 76th Annual Gold Rush Days in Wickenburg, Arizona this February.

“The situation is the same in old gold mining towns like Virginia, Welkom and Orkney after the closure of most of the mines – leading to a shocking state of the economy,” said Spoor.

Years later, the Azusa Herald quoted an old codger of a prospector ... About a year after Ezra’s find, the mining town of Randsburg sprang up around a big gold find — the town and the ...

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 east of the town of Lynn Lake. It’s ...

DENVER (AP) — A tour guide killed at a former Colorado gold mine last year fell out of a crowded elevator taking tourists ...