The National Park Service and an Australian company are at odds over an old Mojave Desert gold mine, where the company is ...

National Board of Review student grant-winning actor, screenwriter and director Constanza Majluf-Baeza is developing her ...

The world's richest diamond mine, valued at about £1 billion, has produced some of the most valuable diamonds ever.

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Once a thriving gold mining town, Hedges/Tumco is now nothing more than ruins swallowed by the desert. Abandoned for over a century, its crumbling foundations, rusted relics, and lost history tell the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed Egypt's legendary 'lost city of gold' and uncovered a collection of gemstone beads and ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed an impressive mining complex dating back 3,000 years, which had been used to extract gold and pulverize and filter quartz.

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Minecraft cactus is found mostly in desert biomes, but they can also sometimes be found in the badland biome. Mojang has recently introduced an exciting update to cacti in the game, adding a ...

Butts are everywhere, but there’s something about animal behinds that drive people nuts. Be it their odd, anachronistic look ...

President Donald Trump’s Bureau of Land Management in Nevada will decide the fate of mining near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.