This lesser-known Wyoming destination features mining history, preserved architecture, and access to nearby state parks, ...

The Park City Museum ’s all-volunteer committee, dedicated to preserving the town’s mining history, is slated to receive a Community Stewardship Award from the statewide nonprofit organization during ...

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.

In November 1891, the hulking five-story, 27,000-square-foot Holden Lixiviation Works opened on the west bank of Castle Creek on the outskirts of Aspen. The plant used stamp mills, furnaces and ...

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 ...

In Robert Wolensky’s eyes, the area’s mining history shared the same fate as the coal breakers that once dotted the local landscape. “Anthracite history was a history to be forgotten for many years ...

Drones capture data from the air and provide information for computer models that map mines. Unmanned aircraft also track stockpiles and equipment. The United States was the third-leading gold ...