Walk into America’s first gold rush at this North Carolina gold mine, where historic tunnels and fascinating exhibits await ...

Before Oregon was known for timber, it was known for gold. That’s the underlying message of the new book “Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War into the Progressive Era.” Its author, ...

California is full of ghost towns, including this underrated one that was important in the 19th century. It can be a pit stop ...

The small community of Gold Hill continues its year-long bicentennial celebration with the annual Founder’s Day on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Gold Hill Mines Historic Park and Village of Gold ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the correct pricing of the Hike Home with a Miner Tour. A century before five peaks became the town of Breckenridge’s identity, the mountains were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kern County’s gold-mining history is still being written. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management property announced this week it has ...

The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine, site of a deadly incident Thursday, is a former gold mine now turned into a tourist destination in Cripple Creek that takes guests on a vertical descent 100 floors below ...

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths of ...