Mining

The oldest known metal-mining site in England dates back to the Bronze Age.

A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.

Built to hold Gold Rush wealth, this building has withstood the test of time.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

This striking monument pays tribute to those who died working the coal pits from the town of Cambuslang.

A simple memorial between a ball field and a skate park honors 21 men lost in a horrific mining accident.

Above Breckenridge, a destructive mining technique sits sunken in a small pond.

This former zinc operation has a 90-year toxic history.

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

Graham Ibbesons's moving tribute to the victims of England's worst mining disaster.

A churchyard in Ardsley houses a memorial dedicated to the victims of England’s worst mining disaster.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.