Martine Bertereau, the world’s first recorded female mineralogist, had unconventional methods for locating ore deposits

A gold rush in British Columbia’s Cariboo region spurred on the economic development of the colony that would become Canada’s west coast province

Shaaw Tláa, part of the prospecting group that kicked off the Yukon gold rush, is finally recognized for essential role in Canada’s mining history

James Hutton, a failed lawyer and doctor, was the first person to suggest that Earth was millions, rather than thousands, of years old and established geology as a true science

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