“Most of the gold-bearing ground in Wyoming remains virgin,” claims the association’s website. Earle, 72, now spends her summers educating prospectors at the South Pass City Historical Site, between ...

WORLAND — West River Prospecting Supplies is a business born out of a lifelong passion for prospecting, mining and the history of those practices throughout the United States. The company is based out ...

Pamela and Tim Fennell, a couple from Indiana, pedaled their tandem bike down a dusty dirt road in Wyoming. It has two seats, two handlebars and two sets of pedals. Bulky bags are strapped all over — ...

Nadia Dworian, a University of Wyoming undergraduate student from Anchorage, Alaska, will work with U.S. Gold Corp. on the Copper King (CK) Gold Project, located near Curt Gowdy State Park in ...

Cheyenne is asking for more money to offset the impacts of gold mining based on delayed construction and inflation. Uranium ...

CASPER, Wyo. — Prospectors knew there was treasure deep in the South Pass City ore. Efforts to get the gold out in mass quantity started at the Carissa Mine in 1867. Equipment such as a 9-ton ball ...

CHEYENNE – Although time will tell whether the project comes to fruition, Wyoming could soon have its first operating gold mine in decades if a company decides to move forward with its plans in coming ...

Jan Earle can still remember the first time she saw color — flakes of gold — in the bottom of her pan. “It was like finding a lost ring or a diamond. Or seeing a spectacular butterfly for the first ...