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The Wild West Meets Ghostly Charm In An Abandoned Idaho Town With Timeless Beauty
Down a small forest road, between Stanley and Challis in central Idaho, lies the old mining town of Custer - here's ...
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An underground gold war in Colombia is ‘a ticking ecological time bomb’
Nearly 100 underground tunnels, running a combined length of more than 84 kilometers, or 52 miles, crisscross and plunge into ...
Federal government approves 20-year mining ban in part of SD’s Black Hills
The federal government approved a 20-year ban Thursday on new mining-related activity in a portion of South Dakota’s Black ...
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Feds approves 20-year mining ban in part of South Dakota's Black Hills
The federal government on Thursday approved a 20-year ban for new mining-related activity in a portion of South Dakota’s ...
Illegal miners trapped in South Africa claim they are eating human flesh
An unspecified number of illegal miners have been hiding in mine shafts in South Africa for months in an attempt to avoid ...
Illegal miners trapped in South Africa claim they are eating human flesh amid food shortage
An unspecified number of illegal miners have been hiding in mine shafts in South Africa for months in an attempt to avoid ...
The South African gold mines taken over by criminal gangs
Down a shaft that plunged more than a mile below the earth in South Africa’s old mining heartland, a man’s life hung in the ...
Magic and lights draw crowds to an alpine village in Washington state for Christmas
Leavenworth was a near ghost town on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains, with abandoned mines and abandoned dreams. Then, desperate business owners made a far-fetched pitch.
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Hundreds of illegal miners in South Africa to spend Christmas underground in old gold mine
Hundreds of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, will ...
America Magazine8d
Destitute South Africans and migrants risk their lives in illegal mines—and are exploited by criminal gangs
In the small town of Stilfontein, some 90 miles from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, hundreds, possibly thousands, of ...
Brattleboro Reformer9d
El Salvador Congress votes to end ban on metal mining
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. El Salvador's Congress on Monday approved a bill promoted by President Nayib Bukele to roll back a ban on the mining of gold and other metals, ...
Greening The Gold Standard in The Age of Cryptocurrency
Hybrid forms of the gold standard could provide a potential solution to excessive public and private sector consumption ...