Twenty years after the decline of the magnificent Comstock Lode, Nevada’s prosperity and population had diminished to such a degree that some popular articles questioned whether to …
Digging mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, little …
In 1978, a geologist working for the Homestake Mining Company discovered gold in a remote corner of California's Napa County. This discovery led to the establishment of …