Much like exploration geologists, university-based historians do much of their field research in the summer months. Limited ...

Over the past decade, the machines that maintain the Bitcoin network have undergone rapid technological development. Mining equipment is a fundamental feature of the success of the bitcoin network ...

Mining pools grow and shrink, and rise and fall altogether. Today there are more extinct mining pools than there are active ones. The hashpower of the survivors secures hundreds of PoW crypto networks ...

Located in the Metalliferous range of the Apuseni Mountains in the west of Romania, Roșia Montană features the most significant, extensive and technically diverse underground Roman gold mining complex ...

Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří (Ore Mountains) spans a region in south-eastern Germany (Saxony) and north-western Czechia, which contains a wealth of several metals exploited through mining from the Middle ...

Southeastern Arizona has a rich mining history dating back more than 1,000 years. The indigenous people known also as the Hohokam, or vanished ones, were the first to exploit the vast mineral ...

Logistical challenges of transporting ore for refinement and market have proved challenging throughout Arizona’s mining history. Perhaps one of the biggest challenges was found in the White Mesa ...

PARK CITY — A 7-mile biking and hiking trail that winds through two dozen historic mining sites and functions as an "open-air museum" of Park City's mining history is now open to the public. The Park ...

Sometimes, you can’t get out of the house, but you still need your local history fix. I recommend a virtual tour of Boulder County’s hard rock mining history. The tour can be found on the website of ...