As the price of gold soars to a record NZ$5000 an ounce, the West Coast is bracing for an influx of miners new to the ...

Canadian miner Barrick Gold has signed a new agreement with the Malian government to end an almost two-year-old dispute over its mining assets in the West African country, two people familiar with the ...

Horseshoe Metals has reached a Native Title Agreement and is looking at commercialising its Glenloth gold asset in South Australia.

The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were brought to the surface of an abandoned shaft when police intensified an operation ...

After the killing of Wild Bill Hickok, another feud in Deadwood between Laughing Sam and Harry Young led to the death of ...

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues “resorted to cannibalism”. “They cut parts of legs, arms, and ribs for ...

Javelin Minerals’ maiden drilling program at its Coogee project in WA has hit 65g/t gold and 8.5pc copper to extend the ...

Whiskey Flat Days are back in Kernville this weekend. The event is a leap back to the Wild West Days when the Kernville area ...

Built during the Gold Rush more than a century and a half ago, Cary House Hotel in Placerville is one of the oldest hotels in ...

Behind a nondescript black door that could pass as a linen closet, Hidden Ace offers intimate live music, fun bar food and creative cocktails.

in South Africa’s North West province, where police had waged a deadly standoff with illegal miners. The small town, once a thriving hub for gold mining, had been in decline since the early 2000s.