This film shows the construction of a Homestake Gold Mine landmark above ground, as well as work done below ground during the 1930s. Images of the Past is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...

This film shows how miners drilled into rock and moved ore through the Homestake operations extensive shaft mine. Images of the Past is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ...

About 2,000 feet under Lake Erie, 30 miles east of Cleveland in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, you'll find a vast site called the Morton Salt Mine. Since 1959, the Fairport Harbor Morton Salt Mine has ...

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Declassified images from U.S. military satellites are helping find forgotten mine fields in Cambodia. From the late 1960s almost until the end of the 1990s, a bloody war between communist groups ...