A company that wants to extract gold from piles of decades-old mining waste outside Leadville no longer plans to use cyanide ...

Millions of tons of coal ash leftover from burning the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel sit in ponds and landfills across the US ...

Over the last decade and a half, deep-sea mining has captured worldwide attention as a potential source for the minerals like ...

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Halaand paused new mining claims or leases for two years on 165,000 acres of public lands ...

Researchers suggest that recycling gold could dramatically reduce harmful emissions, along with other solutions such as ...

Juliet Samaniya, a 6-year-old, works in dangerous conditions mining lithium in Nigeria. With child labor prevalent, the demand for lithium contributes to unsafe and illegal mining practices. Despite ...

This story was first published by Grist . At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a ...

Saudi Arabia, it said, currently boasts a solid steel industry that relies on importing iron ore from various African ...

With the November election behind us and a Republican administration to come, there are many questions regarding possible ...

The research will focus on the company's Tamarack project, which comprises an underground nickel-copper mine in central ...

Magna Petra have announced a partnership to extract helium-3 from the moon’s regolith with a focus on sustainability.