Archaeologists recently unearthed an impressive mining complex dating back 3,000 years, which had been used to extract gold ...

Clay is found usually where water once was like a dried-up stream. It has been used for building and making things for thousands of years. It can be made hard by placing it in a special hot oven ...

Wheal Martyn Clay Works, near St Austell, has been awarded over £700,000 from the fourth round of the Museum Estate and ...

Most mining of phosphate rock involves clearing large swaths of vegetation and digging up the soil beneath to reach the phosphate-ore-containing matrix 60 to 80 feet below the surface. This matrix is ...

Recently, archaeologists unearthed a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mining camp in the Sukari Mountains. Crews found evidence of ancient gold mining, processing, and purification. The archaeological ...

Archaeologists spent the past two years excavating the ruins of a 3,000-year-old mining camp at Sukari Mountain, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a Feb. 25 Facebook post. The ...