Long before skyscrapers dominated America's skyline, the country was rife with rough and remote mining towns that were built ...

In this month’s “We the People,” we looked into why Idaho is called the Gem State. The origin of our state’s nickname dates ...

A 54-year-old hiker’s fatal fall into an abandoned mine shaft near Ouray last month highlights a broader danger left behind ...

Brian Maki remembers growing up in some of the early days of Hoyt Lakes in the 1950s and ’60s, when the town sprang to life in service to the Erie Mining Company’s production facility 6 miles north.

Jan. 5, 2006— -- Out of one of the toughest and most dangerous jobs in the world have come generations of powerful stories, almost all hinging on life and death and the suspense of waiting. "You ...

Mineral bodies in the Pine Creek region were composed of a complex mixture of zinc, lead, silver and antimony ores that early ...

Local and longtime Durango resident Christopher George is an enthusiastic transplant from Surry, England. A survivor of Nazi bombardments, George first came to the state in 1967 after his friend, ...

This story was originally published in the 2024 edition of Discovery magazine, the College of Science's publication. This edition of Discovery celebrated the 20th anniversary of the College of Science ...

When it went into operation in March 1931, the St. Nicholas breaker outside Mahanoy City was one of the largest processors of anthracite coal in the world. State-of-the-art technology, it was capable ...

Underneath the surface of a resort town that pulls in hundreds of thousands of skiers per year lives a mining history that’s nearly a century deep. If it were not for historians and an interest from ...

Real del Monte is their own. The Mexican town, just a three-and-a-half-hour drive from Mexico City, is perched more than ...

A little over a hundred years ago, Breckenridge, and much of Summit County, looked a lot different than it does today. Instead of the county being filled with short-term rental properties with ...