After the discovery of a 17-pound nugget in Little Meadow Creek, North Carolina, the state became a major hotbed of gold mining as a part of the first American gold rush in 1799. Early discoveries ...

Australia mines more lithium than any other country, but most of that lithium is refined in China. Countries such as ...

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POPLAR - The state has ruled to deny a permit application for a controversial mining operation in Mitchell County, on the North Carolina side of the Nolichucky River gorge. The North Carolina ...

Two couples find 400+ carats of emeralds in North Carolina mine. March 27, 2012— -- Jamie Hill thought he found a new way to make money by opening up his aging emerald mine to amateurs at $25 a ...

1 of 5 — Main Street Gold Hill NC Looking South_ Men in front of the Post Office-Three Corner Store.jpg Courtesy Vivian Hopkins and Historic Gold Hill and Mines Foundation, Inc. 2 of 5 — Union Copper ...

A gold mine was running dry — but a North Carolina man held onto hope when he visited 129 years ago. Jacob Shinn’s optimism was rewarded when he hit something hard while digging on April 9, 1896. The ...

MITCHELL COUNTY, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - Mitchell County officials announced that legal action is being taken against a mining company that is illegally operating in western North Carolina. On Aug. 8, ...

(NEXSTAR) – Twenty-seven years after the release of their song “The Boy Is Mine,” Brandy and Monica are planning to continue their fierce debate over whom this boy actually belongs to. The two ...

Residents in Poplar, North Carolina, are fed up with an allegedly illegal mining operation they say has been polluting the riverbed and sending thick dust into the air for nearly a year as the ...

One of the Rock Hill region’s biggest businesses turns rocks into gold. Increasingly, Haile Gold Mine also produces green — as in an annual economic impact statewide of $717.5 million. The Lancaster ...