Mining

Gold mining was an integral part of what made the city of Johannesburg, South Africa one of the most economically important cities on the continent. But as mining winds down, some are trying to find new ways to use the landscape of mining operations.

This piece from The New York Times offers a first hand look at life in a modern day mining ghost town from someone who is steadily buying up empty buildings.

This piece from Wired looks at the Swedish mining town of Kiruna that is literally picking itself up and moving.

Despite a congressional ruling last year that prevents them, wight uranium mining operations have been approved near the Grand Canyon.

Mining towns in Lander County, NV are skipping the recession, thanks to a local economy based on gold.

Appalachia, long known as one of the poorest parts of the U.S. with chronically high unemployment, finds itself in the enviable position of enjoying remarkably low unemployment due to unwavering demand for its main natural resource – coal.