Washington enjoyed a brief moment in the sunshine during the Gold Rush, but this abandoned mining town is a testament to how ...

When Emmanuel Siyabonga was a boy, he wasn't fussy about the type of job he wanted when he grew up. Other boys dreamed of being footballers, doctors, soldiers. All Siyabonga wanted, he says, was a job ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

This Abandoned Gold-mining Town Is One of the Best Ghost Towns in the West—and It Has a Creepy Old Hotel and Saloon Garnet, Montana, is one of the best ghost towns in the West, and it offers a chance ...

Until the passage of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) in 1980, miners across the American West extracted gold, silver, and other valuable “hardrock” ...