In 1900, miners discovered the rich Kennicott copper deposit and built 315km (196mi) of railroad through wilderness to take the ore out.

In 1853, miners from Iowa discovered gold there.

The community got its start in 1897 when miners discovered gold on Willow Creek.

Nor did they lack for fuel, since the miners had early on discovered a wide seam of hard coal beneath the city itself.

His miners had discovered a refined metal too heavy and dense to be worked into anything more complex than ax or arrowheads.

Tabor had the last laugh when his miners dug a few feet farther and discovered a rich ore body.

Upon taking it to her cabin, the miners discovered that she was no longer there.

Later miners discovered that the canyon contained rich deposits of coal and clay.

Early placer miners in California discovered that the more gravel they could process, the more gold they were likely to find.

The place was first called Texas Flat after miners from Texas discovered gold there in 1849.