An exclusive excerpt from a new book, Mining Country, which promises to document in detail for the first time an industry critical to Canada’s past, present and future In “Mining Country,” authors ...

As of the date of this writing, block 737,000, Bitcoin is almost two-thirds into its 366th difficulty epoch. A difficulty epoch is a period in which 2,016 blocks are added to Bitcoin’s ledger, ideally ...

In Robert Wolensky’s eyes, the area’s mining history shared the same fate as the coal breakers that once dotted the local landscape. “Anthracite history was a history to be forgotten for many years ...

Brian Maki remembers growing up in some of the early days of Hoyt Lakes in the 1950s and ’60s, when the town sprang to life in service to the Erie Mining Company’s production facility 6 miles north.

Magnificent photographs capturing scenes of Perak’s tin mining industry in the 1970s, featured in the photography book Eric Peris’ Tin Mine Landscapes, have immortalised this aspect of the state’s ...

Summit County loves its history. If you don’t believe me, try taking a tour sometime. I’ve had the privilege of taking two such journeys this fall. This first, was set up by Breckenridge Heritage ...

Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří (Ore Mountains) spans a region in south-eastern Germany (Saxony) and north-western Czechia, which contains a wealth of several metals exploited through mining from the Middle ...

As mining edges back into Goa’s forest heartland, the state once again confronts a familiar and fraught question: can it ...

Clare Wright receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of deceased people. In May 2020, ...

Unless you are given to chronic anxiety or suffer from nihilistic despair, you probably haven’t spent much time contemplating the bottom of the ocean. Many people imagine the seabed to be a vast ...