Tumco is a California gold-mining ghost town that once drew thousands of residents to the Imperial County desert.

The story begins on May 27, 1962, when borough officials set fire to trash in the municipal dump near a cemetery. The dump ...

Eight years ago, the Austin-based entrepreneur used $1.4 million from his life’s savings to buy Cerro Gordo, an abandoned ...

President Donald Trump is slated to announce more than $180 million in grants to boost the American mining industry through education and trade programs.

At first, Andy Crammond thought the object was a bull's nose ring. Other artifacts unearthed nearby include a Viking brooch, a Roman coin hoard and a Bronze Age ax head ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ghost towns capture our imaginations — haunted or not — about Colorado’s past and the people who braved treacherous mountain terrain or harsh prairies to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Aspen’s Hotel Jerome opened in 1889, built by silver baron Jerome B. Wheeler at the height of the town’s silver mining boom, the Aspen Times hailed its ...

Off-grid power specialist Pacific Energy has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with state-owned regional energy provider Horizon Power to deliver a renewables-based power system to Menzies in ...

GDANSK, Poland (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A man walking through a forest with a metal detector stumbled upon an ancient, 2,700-year-old sword sticking upright in the ground. A hobbyist metal detector was ...

What makes a ghost town truly unforgettable? Is it the empty streets, the weathered buildings, or the stories that seem to linger long after the last residents have gone? Hidden in the New Mexico ...