A dog owner was exploring a mining area in the Arizona desert when her dog fell 100 feet into darkness, rescuers said.

Mining for gold turns up much more in the High Desert Zaddie, Ed Bunker and Cornelia White rent two burros and take food, water and bed rolls in a trailer to a ranch near Oasis.

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths ...

These high desert mining districts, established in the late 1800s during the California gold rush, overlap in areas that are public, private and county lands.

The administration wants to “bring copper production home”, but the most likely result is that manufacturers will have little ...

The National Park Service and an Australian company are at odds over an old Mojave Desert gold mine, where the company is seeking to extract rare earth minerals.

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — In the middle of the desert in northern Chile, massive pools of Caribbean blue water sit next to what appear to be snowdrifts. But this is a lithium mine.

Copper mines in Israel's Negev Desert — ancient sites that may have inspired the legend of King Solomon's mines of gold — were abandoned 3,000 years ago, when people there used up all the ...

Deep in the desert – the gold mine that swallowed a town Business is booming at Western Australia's giant super pit – but for the local community, there's a high price to pay.

It's a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is ...

It's a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mish-mash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths ...