PLACER COUNTY — Two people suffered critical injuries in an explosion inside a Northern California mine shaft, officials said Friday. The Foresthill Fire Protection District said it happened ...

Conservatives take issue with NDP's mining approach BC Conservative Party leader John Rustad took aim at the NDP’s resource industry track record in a September 24 press release that also ...

British Columbia’s mining sector could generate as much as $90-billion in economic activity from 27 projects currently in advanced stages of development, according to a study commissioned by the ...

Early in the history of gold mining in NC, many of the extractors used "placer mining." As mentioned above, this used simple panning methods, but it was not until the 1820s that more focused ...

The BC government plans to fast track 18 resource projects to reduce the province’s dependence on US trade. According to the CBC, the mining and energy projects are worth around C$20 billion ...

It’s well known that placer mining in Silver Bow Creek and lode, or hard-rock, mining in the veins on the Butte Hill began almost simultaneously, in 1864. With the advent ...

Small-scale mining activities are relatively common throughout the Yukon where 108 active small- to medium-scale placer mines work to produce around 72,464 crude ounces of gold annually.