Canadian hard rock miners carried out critical tunnelling work at Gibraltar during the Second World War

In Andean folklore, a goblin with mysterious motives roams through the tunnels of underground mines

The many fraudsters of Kansas's goldless rush

In ancient Egypt, gold and other metals had deep religious significance

Welsh gold from the Dolgellau belt has been the source of royal jewelry for almost a century

Female prospectors in the California, Klondike, and Nevada mining booms fought sexism and claim thieving to be taken seriously