Seattle Tunnel Partners have resumed digging a repair pit to access the stalled tunnel drilling machine sitting idle under the waterfront. State archaeologists have determined shell deposits ...

SHELL — With temperatures pushing 100 degrees, a half-dozen people spent a recent dry, dusty July day scrambling around an open pit, digging for buried treasure in the hills above the sprawling Red ...

MMG’s data show a third of the extraction there has occurred in the last two years alone as part of a surge in informal ...

A gold rush brought settlers to South Dakota's Black Hills roughly 150 years ago, chasing the dream of wealth and displacing Native Americans in the process. Now, a new crop of miners driven by gold ...