Coal mines are notorious sources of acid mine drainage, but the orange sludge that threatens water supplies and wildlife also ...

When the company that owns Canyon Mine, near the Grand Canyon, changed the mine’s name to Pinyon Plain Mine in 2020, some saw ...

ames Litinsky first visi­ted the Mountain Pass rare earths mine in 2015 because he was worried about the $40 million his hedge fund had sunk into distressed bonds issued by mine owner Molycorp. He ...

A massive search operation continued Wednesday in West Virginia, where officials said crews were "working around the clock" and continuing "aggressive" efforts to locate a missing coal miner who ...

Biden officials point to the Eagle mine as proof that mining critical minerals in the U.S. can gain public support while avoiding pollution and trampling Indigenous rights. Not everyone is convinced.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Three million gallons of acidic mine drainage flooded into the Animas River basin 10 years ago, turning the southern Colorado river a mustard yellow and ...

Environmental groups had opposed expanding a Montana mine previously caught up in allegations of cocaine trafficking and the faked kidnapping of an executive. By Hiroko Tabuchi The Trump ...

José Trabaninos and his uncle Edi Alarcón were arguing again. Sitting by the wire fence that cuts through the dirt between their shacks, surrounded by children’s toys and stray dogs and chickens ...

Authorities rescued 12 people who were trapped for several hours underground Thursday after an elevator malfunctioned at a former gold mine that is now a Colorado tourist attraction. At around noon, ...

Drones have transformed mine warfare in Ukraine. Surveillance drones spy out movements behind enemy lines, then drone mine layers leave explosives where they will do the most damage. Mines have ...

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