My childhood friends Barney and Gary Bishop and I enjoyed the perfect outdoor play area, a special sandbox for our mining fantasies. Their grandmother, Georgie Bishop, lived in a house just west of ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the correct pricing of the Hike Home with a Miner Tour. A century before five peaks became the town of Breckenridge’s identity, the mountains were ...

Kalispell Middle School teacher Kris Schreiner demonstrates how to use a sluice to eighth-graders, from left, Shyann Richsel, Hallie Granley and Kaylee Whitten during a lesson on panning for gold, ...

A Gatehouse author’s new book looks at the life of two children who lived in a mining community. Claire Pepper has released James and Ann Children of a Lead Miner, 1841, which tells the story of two ...

William Shakespeare may be known for saying “all that glisters is not gold,” but much of Summit County’s early recorded history involves people chasing glittery gold to a wide variety of ends. One ...

In the Zambian city of Kabwe, children suffer severe health effects due to lead poisoning because of extreme pollution from the toxic lead waste of a former mine. Zambia’s government is facilitating ...

After revelations of child labor and treacherous conditions in many cobalt mines, automakers and mineral companies said they would adhere to international safety standards The Shabara artisanal mine, ...