Artifacts from the Bronze Age continue to be discovered by archeologists all over Europe and the Near East, but what is rarely discussed is where the massive amount of copper required to make all those artifacts came from, considering the known small-scale copper mines in England, continental Europe, and the Near East cannot account for it all. Dr. Barry Fell, in his book Bronze Age America, provided... 

Gold output in South Africa fell for the 14th straight month in November. According to Bloomberg, it ranks as the longest streak of monthly declines since 2012. Production fell 14% from a year earlier, Pretoria-based Statistics South Africa said in a statement on its website last week. South Africa once led the world in gold production. The precipitous drop in the country’s mine output over the...