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 ...

The Yellow Pine Pit lake, one of three open pit mines Perpetua Resources proposes to excavate, marks the most prominent scar ...

4-kM-wide open-pit portion of Freeport's Grasberg mine complex. The mine is located in close proximity to glaciers that serve as indicators of climate change in the region. June 25, 2005. undefined ...

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 ...

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 ...