Go down in history - 3 feet beneath the surface of the earth in a once abandoned, but now restored hard coal mine. See where and how men and boys worked to heat a nation and fuel the conversion of our nation's economy from agriculture to industry.

Gilman is an abandoned mining town in Eagle County, Colorado founded in 1886 during the Colorado Silver Boom. Scattered mining operations sprouted along Battle Mountain…

Exploring the new ghost town of Gilman, Colorado, a recently abandoned mining town. Homes, mining equipment and a train station left to the whims of time.

Old Mines outside of Creede CO

Original Caption: Closeup of an Old Coal Company Mining Town of Red Ash Virginia, near Richards in the Southwestern Part of the State. This Is a Classic Picture of a Company Town with a Railroad in the Valley Flanked by Miners' Homes. These Houses Are Two Family Dwellings the Road Is Made of Red Dog, a Mining Byproduct 04/1974 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-13880 Photographer: Corn, Jack, 1929- Subjects: Richlands (Tazewell county, Virginia, United States) inhabited place…

Learn how the residents of Silverton, Colorado, beat the odds to rescue a long-abandoned mining town called Animas Forks.

A gold rush in the 1870s turned Hill End from a small rural village into one of the largest inland towns in New South Wales, Australia.

In eastern Kentucky, former coal mining towns are plotting how to reinvent themselves

Few people know about this abandoned mine hiding out in the middle of nowhere. This place is seriously spooky.

I sat down with the owner and cultivator of Treasure House Relics project recently, to discuss mining in Utah. I wanted to know how he got interested in…