A gold mine was running dry — but a North Carolina man held onto hope when he visited 129 years ago. Jacob Shinn’s optimism was rewarded when he hit something hard while digging on April 9, 1896. The ...

Land mines and artillery shells have proven essential weapons for Ukraine, and NATO is taking note.

The deminers walk painstakingly across a field near the town of Gospic in southern Croatia, using metal detectors to find ...

Fox Resources has applied for an exploratory licence for a coking coal mine north of Bundaberg on agricultural and residential land. Queensland's Attorney-General's preliminary view is that the ...

Its only land connection is to Canada and it takes one border crossing and about 25 miles north by car to get to downtown Vancouver, B.C.; or two border crossings and about 25 miles through Canada ...

With that comes a lot of competition, especially when it comes to mining. And one mine has been making headlines recently after it was forced to shut down following the seizure of a huge amount of ...

A new gold mine near a small Swedish village is estimated to contain millions of pounds of the precious metal. The mine was in the works for around a decade before it opened in Fäbodtjärn ...

Poland and the Baltic states have said they are planning to leave the Ottawa Convention, dealing a blow to the international treaty banning antipersonnel land mines ...

March 20 - Poland is ready to start work on resuming the production of anti-personnel mines, its defence minister said on Thursday, after Warsaw joined the Baltic states this week in announcing a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Bhutan is known as the "Land of the Thunder Dragon" and for its deeply Buddhist culture and for measuring national happiness. On Friday, it could became one of 43 countries whose citizens face ...

Despite having 860 gold mines and producing around 50 tons of gold ... and water scarcity. The once-glorious land of gold now struggles with basic survival needs. Months after Ratan Tata's death ...