Summit County loves its history. If you don’t believe me, try taking a tour sometime. I’ve had the privilege of taking two such journeys this fall. This first, was set up by Breckenridge Heritage ...

Brian Maki remembers growing up in some of the early days of Hoyt Lakes in the 1950s and ’60s, when the town sprang to life in service to the Erie Mining Company’s production facility 6 miles north.

In Robert Wolensky’s eyes, the area’s mining history shared the same fate as the coal breakers that once dotted the local landscape. “Anthracite history was a history to be forgotten for many years ...

An exclusive excerpt from a new book, Mining Country, which promises to document in detail for the first time an industry critical to Canada’s past, present and future In “Mining Country,” authors ...

Men sit on stacked, cut logs piled in front of a wood- and log-frame mining structure at Ouray Mine in Breckenridge. Most of the men are dressed in collared work coats and hats. One man, possibly the ...

A young Banaban law student is calling on diaspora youth to understand the phosphate mining history that uprooted their ...

Kalispell Middle School teacher Kris Schreiner demonstrates how to use a sluice to eighth-graders, from left, Shyann Richsel, Hallie Granley and Kaylee Whitten during a lesson on panning for gold, ...

If ever you find yourself with some spare time and a hankering for a good film, I recommend “October Sky,” the 1999 movie about the childhood of former NASA engineer Homer Hickam Jr. Set in the ...

Over a period of five years, researchers sampled the deep-sea floor of the CCZ three times before and one time two months after a mining test. They collected 80 samples of the deep-sea sediment to see ...