A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

Tucked inside the mountains just outside of San Diego lies the quirky, quaint, and surprisingly queer little town of Julian.

A group of Oroville leaders met Tuesday for a "vision casting" of what Oroville's next economic engine could be, and what may ...

In the 1890s, the industrial revolution arrived in the form of the centrifugal cream separator. Fed into a bowl spinning at 6 ...

Figure 4 - Rock-chip samples showing percent copper at Chair Mountain, AZ Property.

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

Nestled in the sun-baked hills of San Bernardino County, Calico is a testament to the boom-and-bust cycle of the Old West.

Miners once lived and worked in Humberstone saltpeter works. Now it's a ghost town and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photos ...

In a recent unpublished California appellate court decision, the Court unanimously reversed the lower court’s ruling that an agreement to ...

The allure of gold continued to draw prospectors to Southern California, with new mining camps like Prospect Bar and ...

Ah, but — and you should remember this for “Jeopardy!” — the Golden State’s first documented gold strike happened here, in ...

Surfers Paradise is around an hour’s drive from Brisbane, so a rental car is handy if you want to explore once you’re there.