And the government can’t go on arbitrarily ignoring the environmental harms of phosphate mining.” Friday’s decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho vacated the BLM’s approvals for ...

In a move that has sparked debate over economic potential and environmental risks, President Rodrigo Chaves announced Wednesday that his government plans to re-legalize open-pit mining. The practice, ...

The new government of Honduras has announced that it will ban open-pit mining in the Central American nation. The government, which was sworn in last month, also said that it would cancel ...

A proposed rare earth element mining project on the Quebec side of the Quebec-Labrador border has some Indigenous people in northern Labrador concerned with the potential impacts on the ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping ordered a search and rescue operation which has so far found six survivors in the open-pit mine at Alxa League. But desperate efforts to retrieve others were temporarily ...