Speeding over to a muddy bank of Peru's Madre de Dios river in a motorboat, Karina Garay pointed to a small wooden structure.

BANGKOK (AP) — An airstrike by Myanmar’s military on the town of Mogok, the center of the Southeast Asian country’s lucrative gem-mining industry, has killed at least 21 people including a pregnant ...

In the baked centre of the Australian outback a once-thriving - and wild - opal mining town stands abandoned in the red dirt, ...

Authorities are waiting for a mine to be made safe before they retrieve the body of a man who is one of two workers killed in an explosion at a western NSW mine.

Two workers were killed and another injured in an explosion at the recently reopened Polymetals Resources-owned Endeavor ...

One of nearly two dozen fires burning across Northern California on Wednesday scorched homes in a Gold Rush town settled in the 1850s by thousands of Chinese miners who had faced discrimination and ...

Once home to 3,000 residents during its gold‑mining peak, Tumco now sits abandoned in the remote California desert near Yuma.