(Photo: Tom Malloy)Every spring in Butte, Montana,...  ...19th and 20th Centuries, Butte was a major copper mining center. People dug hundreds of shafts deep in the...  ...heck whether the alleged shaft is in the historic mining district, and if there have been any other mine s...

[https://youtu.be/-1XSKu3pK8A]YouTube LinkThe Aust...  ...//youtu.be/-1XSKu3pK8A]YouTube LinkThe Australian mining city of Coober Pedy (previously featured at Neato...

The following is an article from Uncle John's Curi...  ...Francisco’s investment community to buy the mining claim outright. While Arnold played hard to get,...  ...ld was a lie. Arnold and Slack had created a fake mining claim in Colorado by sprinkling, or “saltin...  ...f the appraisal went well, t...

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft8UuzIS-ec](Video Link)Wal and Liz are prospectors in Australia. One day, they dropped a nugget that they had found. When they located it at their feet, they saw an ant dragging it off.I...

The Kennecott Mine Camp was a booming Alaskan...  ...Kennecott Mine Camp was a booming Alaskan copper mining town in the first couple of decades of the 20th c...

Ferropolis (Iron City) is an open-air museum featuring huge industrial machines that are no longer in service. It has been open to the public in Gräfenhainichen, Germany, since 1995. If you can't get there, see some...

The following is an article from the book Uncle John's Fast-Acting Long-Lasting Bathroom Reader. On Valentine's Day, 1981, eleven-year-old Todd Domboski was walking through a field in Centralia, Pannsylvania, when a 1...

They say that one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. For one NYC resident this is very true as he is able to make a living finding lost gold and bits of jewelry in the street and cashing them in. A Queens man has...