There are places in Nevada that defy explanation, where reality seems to have taken a slight detour and forgotten to come ...

Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park near Ely is one of those magnificent secrets that makes you wonder how something so ...

Daria Saburova looks at how volunteer labor has become a site of gender and class tensions, and the specific features of ...

I was especially interested in understanding the specific nature of working-class volunteerism, a topic that is rarely discussed. ” ...

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a ...

In the 1860s, white settlers flocked to what would become Marysvale, where the Deer Trail Mine is now located, with high hopes to strike gold, silver, and copper. By the 1930s, though, most of the ...

San Manuel Mine was once the world’s largest underground copper mining operation in size of ore body, production capacity and infrastructure. It is located in the Old Hat mining district on the east ...

Mining activity in the Santa Rita Mountains has existed for several hundred years, beginning with the Spanish in the 18th century at the silver and gold mines of Salero and Alto. Located 28 miles ...