Meanwhile, more of the wood is being repurposed as a special gift to a city in the US which has vital mining and heritage links with the same West Cork village. Such kit ... on a model of the ...

The Save Lancelin Dunes action group says sand dunes protected the coastal town from a recent emergency level fire. The group is lobbying to stop limesand mining at the dunes, citing ...

Hidden between all the mountains and mines are several towns like Helper that are waiting to bring coal mining back to life, but hope it's done with care and community in mind. “What people don ...

Cape Town — Darius Wonyen, a mining and mineral processing engineer at ArcelorMittal Liberia (AML), stood proudly among some of the world's leading experts at the Comminution '25 Conference ...

A bus service to Broken Hill has proved life changing for some residents in the remote opal mining town of White Cliffs. Every fortnight the bus makes the six-hour round trip in a day ...

Years before becoming a hell-raising Hollywood icon, Richard Burton was hard-up miner's son Richie Jenkins — Marc Evans' sentimentalized but enjoyable biopic shows what's in a name change.

For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited for its gold. Today, the precious metal is just as sought after, but the remaining tiny gold particles are much harder to find. Mining often ...

Many of the miners and their families were brought to the area by coal companies and settled in mining towns. They came to start a new life. Some did not speak English as their native language.

A bushwalker has made a grisly discovery at the bottom of an ancient well in a tiny Australian gold mining town. Among the broken bricks and twisted metal were dozens of bones believed to have ...

To get a taste for the city's rich history as a Colorado Gold Rush mining town, stop at the Western ... through interactive exhibits, including a model mine drift you can walk through to ...