It's a grueling and risky life for these miners, known as zama zamas, an isiZulu phrase translating loosely as "those who ...

What’s old is gold again – junior goldies are dusting off and reviving previously uneconomic or abandoned deposits as prices ...

Explore Arizona’s ghost towns where mining ruins, roaming burros, and preserved relics reveal haunting echoes of the Wild ...

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Vancouver, British Columbia and Melbourne, Australia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 26, 2025) - Southern Cross Gold Consolidated ...

Vala Mgodi On January 27, SAPS deputy district commissioner Brigadier Lebohang Machakela, along with the Department of Minerals and Energy (DMR), launched the highly anticipated Operation Vala Mgodi ...

The fight against illegal mining or galamsey is nowhere near being won . While we are as a people paying lip-service to the ...

Next month marks the 40th anniversary of the discovery of the wreck of the Titanic. Here, we chart a history as remarkable as ...

There is widespread revulsion around the alpine villages at the killing of police officers. But in some corners of the High Country, there is a strain of weird sympathy for the alleged killer.

That’s Coarsegold, California for you – a tiny Sierra Nevada foothill town where gold rush history meets affordable living, and where retirees are discovering their dollars stretch further than a ...

Grass Valley was once the beating heart of California’s gold country. Today it still has that rough-and-tumble mining town feel. The Empire Mine State Historic Park shows how miners lived and worked.

Up and down the state, Utah mountain towns wait to be explored. Here are some of our favorite mountain getaways as well as ...