In South Africa, illegal miners make a living by trespassing in old gold mines to retrieve what is left. In August year, police began to attempt to force people out of the old Buffelsfontein Gold ...

An incident at a former Colorado gold mine that ... and the history of mining in Colorado." But federal authorities have warned that active and abandoned mine sites still "pose serious risks ...

Years later, the Azusa Herald quoted an old codger of a prospector ... Every few years, another wave of gold-hopefuls assaulted the San Gabriels’ mining sites, even into the Depression.

TELLER COUNTY, Colo. — An accident at a tourist gold mine in Cripple Creek that killed a man and left more than a dozen people trapped underground was the result of operator error, the Teller ...