After the discovery of a 17-pound nugget in Little Meadow Creek, North Carolina, the state became a major hotbed of gold mining as a part of the first American gold rush in 1799. Early discoveries ...

Hurricane Melissa is now a rare Category 5 storm as it closes in on a historic, catastrophic landfall in Jamaica Virginia ...

North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) denied a mining permit to Horizon 30 for its mining operation near the banks of the Nolichucky River in Poplar, N.C. Horizon 30 is now ...