Since then, they’ve discovered the hole under their house may be connected to one of the more than 75 mines that operated nearly 150 years ago in the city of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.

After about 30 seconds, the drill reaches 2 feet underground, creating an 8-inch-wide hole. They pull out the auger and take a sample of the excavated dirt. ... Real estate gold mine.

The Super Pit is the largest open-pit gold mine in Australia, and one of the largest in the world. House-size machines dig into a canyon-size hole. Here's a full tour.

Thanks to record gold prices Perpetua Resources is set to resurrect an Idaho mine to supply the Pentagon with vital weapons-grade antimony, bust a Chinese monopoly, and rehab 20 miles of back ...