The town was born during Colorado’s silver and gold rush and though the Silver Panic of 1893 slowed its growth, mining actually continued into the 20 th century. Remnants of its mining days are ...

There are plenty of old and abandoned mining towns in the United States, such as Kennecott, the overlooked Alaskan ghost town ...

Terlingua is yet another mining town, only this one became one of the greats. By the 1930s, the community was one of the largest producers of quicksilver in the nation, according to Visit Big Bend .

A small town in Wyoming is making big news with Ramaco's groundbreaking for the first rare earth mine in the U.S. in 70 years ...

Small mining towns flourished at the start of the 1900s. Up until the 1930s, horse-drawn carriages and automobiles could still be seen on the same streets. Today, many of these towns lean on their ...

This Arizona town is older than the US. Here's how to visit it and 11 other old towns. Brenna Gauchat. ... Globe, like many Western cities, was founded as a mining town in 1876.

I was headed for the Tri-Cities, three towns in southeastern Kentucky close to the border with West Virginia. Cumberland, Benham and Lynch were once thriving coal mining towns, basking in the ...