It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

A teen was rescued after becoming trapped in an abandoned mine shaft in Placer County on Monday, according to California State Parks. A 15-year-old boy was in the area of China ...

A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba ...

A team of metal detectorists recently discovered a treasure hoard of American and Russian gold coins in a Polish forest. Mojave Nugget, a gold nugget weighing 156 ounces. From the Stringer district, ...

The alleged kingpin, known as Tiger surfaced from the mine ... abandoned industrial mines in South Africa in search of leftover gold. Some of the workers spend months at a time underground. A map ...

The entrance shaft of an abandoned mine is seen in Stilfontein on January 14, 2025. More than two dozen illegal miners have been rescued and at least 15 bodies recovered from an abandoned gold ...

You can probably name some of the abandoned cities of the past ... preserved ghost towns you can visit is Bodie, California. A gold rush mining town, Bodie had up to 10,000 residents at its ...

Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every ... miners died this week after they were trapped in an abandoned gold mine southwest of Johannesburg, according to The ...

A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold mine. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay reports. Sound of a ...

New Jersey has nearly 600 abandoned mines, according to state officials. (See an interactive map of abandoned mine locations below.) “They’re everywhere,” said Timothy Rack, safety and ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Johannesburg, Jan 17 (IANS) No illegal miners remain underground after four days of a rescue operation at the abandoned Stilfontein Gold mine in South Africa's North West Province ...

No illegal miners remain underground after four days of a rescue operation at the abandoned Stilfontein gold mine in South Africa's North West Province, police confirmed Thursday. National Police ...