Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa's old gold-mining regions, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for any remaining deposits. The illegal miners are frequently ...

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.

In the northeastern New Territories, the Robin’s Nest Country Park is home to an old mine that has recently ... partially to protect the bats’ roosting sites. Officially opened last spring ...