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LEADVILLE – It’s big and elaborate enough to feel like a museum you might visit in Washington, D.C., or New York City. But it’s not in either of those places. It’s the National Mining Museum, and it’s ...

The World Museum of Mining is launching a new summer program designed to introduce young children to Butte’s mining history through hands-on learning and explor ...

The National Coal Mining Museum is set to pause its underground tours due to a staff pay dispute. More than 40 members of the UNISON union at the museum in Wakefield are to go on strike for four weeks ...

Natural history’s golden age, when Charles Darwin and like-minded scientists pondered connections between creatures and their environments, largely revolved around collecting stuff. Explorers fanned ...

It seems astounding to me that when George Yule stumbled across the white rock (Yule Marble) in 1874 while prospecting the area, he recognized the potential of the marble although there was no access ...

Members of the historic San Francisco-based Society of California Pioneers, whose membership is open only to direct descendants of anyone who arrived in California prior to 1850, were welcomed for a ...

To get a taste for the city's rich history as a Colorado Gold Rush mining town, stop at the Western Museum of Mining & Industry. Here, you'll learn what it took to make the most of the area's ...