Nick Michael thinks he has got a great idea. Collect ore and tailings from the slag piles scattered around Leadville, extract bits of silver and gold in a vat of chemicals and then store the waste in ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University overturns prevailing scientific beliefs that King Solomon’s Mines not only harmed the health of workers in the ancient copper industry but also pose risks to the ...

Deer Lodge Valley ranchers sued the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. in the early 1900s because emissions from the smelter stack were killing their cattle, their hayfields and a lot more. Predictably, the ...

Mining towns often hold onto glimpses of their past, said Bode Morin, a historian and administrator at Anthracite Heritage Museum in Pennsylvania. Tourist traps near smelters have even sold slag in ...

Sometimes, clues about ancient technology are hidden in the most mundane things. In this case, Tel-Aviv University archaeologist Erez Ben-Yosef and his colleagues went rummaging through heaps of slag, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An Eagle Rock man is facing federal fraud ...