An Underwater Cave Once Hosted the Americas' …

Combined with traces of a rich red pigment known as ocher, these remnants pointed toward the site's identity as an 11,000-year-old mine.

This 12,000-Year-Old Wyoming Quarry Could Be North …

The Powars II site in Wyoming is significant because it's the only known red ocher quarry archaeologists have discovered north of Mesoamerica, or what is today …

Divers discover mining cave from the Ice Age

A team of underwater cave explorers in Mexico has discovered the oldest known system of red ochre mines in the Americas. The discovery sheds light on how humans lived as long as 12,000 years …

DEQ helps preserve oldest known prehistoric mine …

The Powars II Paleoindian Archaeological Site in Sunrise – believed to be the oldest known mining operation in both North and South America – would have been wiped out if former Sunrise resident Wayne …

A little-known archeological site of potential …

Red ochre was used to make some of the world's earliest paints. A mine was recently discovered in eastern Wyoming. Wyoming legislators may soon protect a little-known archeological site in eastern …

Paleoindian ochre mines in the submerged caves …

Here, we present uniquely preserved evidence indicating that people were exploring underground cave systems to prospect and mine red ochre, an iron oxide earth mineral pigment used widely by North America's earliest …

Wyoming likely home to oldest mine on continent

CASPER — Researchers from the University of Wyoming and Wyoming State Archeologists Office have confirmed that humans used an ancient red ocher mine …

Archeologists Thrilled With Confirmation That

As detailed in a scientific article published last week, Pelton and his team have confirmed that the Powars II red ocher mine near Sunrise in eastern Wyoming is the oldest mining operation in North …

Underwater caves once hosted the Americas' …

Floating through the eerie depths of a submerged cave system on the Yucatán Peninsula, divers recovered evidence that ancient …

A study confirms the oldest red ocher mine in …

Archeological excavations led by Wyoming's state archaeologist and University of Wyoming researchers have confirmed that an ancient mine in Southeastern Wyoming was used nearly 13,000 …