One of the Hottest Stocks in the Oil Patch Is a Defunct 19th-Century Railroad. ... the 100-employee firm has taken to wringing money from its acres in America’s most prolific drilling region, ...

For most of the 19th century nearly all of the world’s rubber came from Brazil, home of Hevea brasiliensis, the Pará rubber tree. Manaus, a city reachable only by sailing 1,450km up the Amazon ...

Modern gold mining is a much more high-tech operation than the gold rush of the 19th century. Fosterville Gold Mine / Agnico Eagle Modern drilling methods make it easy to sample rocks, using ...