The Wharf Mine, South Dakota's only active large-scale gold mine, reached an eight-year high in gold production in 2024. Production at South Dakota’s only active, large-scale gold mine climbed to its ...

The mining of gold has meant the tearing down of entire mountains and jungles, the blasting of rock, the bleaching of ore ...

The waters flowing from South Dakota's Black Hills have been sacred to the Lakota people for uncounted generations. After ...

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, ...

US-focused Liberty Gold has reached key permitting milestones for its flagship Black Pine oxide gold project in Idaho, with the submission of the draft mine plan of operations (MPO) and the ...

Black Pine, a past-producing open-pit heap leach mine, operated from 1991 to 1997. During that period, then owner Pegasus Gold produced 435,000 oz. of gold and 189,000 oz. of silver from five open ...

When Lakota artist Marty Two Bulls Jr. looks at the Black Hills of South Dakota ... the most visible scar on the mountains. The former gold mine beneath is another, and that’s what motivated ...

Col. George Armstrong Custer’s Black Hills Expedition. The discovery set off a gold rush that ultimately led to the development of the Homestake Mine near Lead, which was the largest and deepest ...