The town of Walker, located 12 miles southeast of its region’s mining base of operations in Prescott, was named for Capt. Joseph Reddeford Walker. In spring 1863, Walker led a group of 30 about gold ...

Hecla Mining will join the S&P MidCap 400 Index on Dec. 22, highlighting its strong performance, operational scale, and ...

San Diego became known for its beaches, research labs, and urban growth, the mountains to the east briefly thrived with the promise of gold.

A pilot plant will be built at the Idaho National Lab to process antimony, a critical mineral that China largely controls and ...

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 ...

Gold had been discovered in the Sawtooth Mountains. It was 1879, thirty years after the California Gold Rush, and dozens of ...

Glen Canyon has a history of prospectors seeking gold dust deposited in the coarse and fine gravels in its narrow steep walls. Gold mining in the canyon reached a zenith from 1883 to 1912; the canyon ...

A new satellite analysis from U.S. think tank the Stimson Center has identified 517 suspected mines along rivers in Laos, ...

BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. WELL, JUST ANNOUNCED THIS MORNING THE PLACER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS LAUNCHING A NEW EFFORT TO HELP SOLVE DECADES OLD MYSTERIES. KCRA 3’S ERIN HEFT IS JOINING US ...

Americas Gold and Silver (TSX: USA) (NYSE-A: USAS) is paying $65 million to acquire the privately owned Crescent Silver and its past-producing mine in Idaho, as the miner looks to expand its presence ...

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