In an early scene from the Oscar-winning “Harlan County U.S.A.,” a piece of technology is shown swallowing coal miners by the dozen. One after the other, we see helmeted workers merge their prone ...

BAROBO, SURIGAO DEL SUR—For many families in the upland villages of this town, small-scale gold mining has long been more ...

When thinking of mining jobs within the mining industry, many people think of the traditional miners – pickaxes, hard-hats, taking a lift down to a mine shaft, hours of hard toil in dark tunnels to ...

The town of Tonopah, Nev., was born out of a silver rush, when more than 10,000 people moved in during the early 1900s, racing to make money from a prized natural resource. It didn't last. Today, ...

Jobs cuts in Australia’s mining industry have really taken their toll: Australian Mining reports that one man has offered to give a bottle of rum each week for six months to the person who can find ...