Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with metals. These acidic discharges, known as acid mine drainage, are among the ...

SANTIAGO, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Production at Capstone Copper's (CS.TO), opens new tab Mantoverde copper and gold mine in northern Chile is largely halted after the mine's desalination plant was shut ...

Assistant Clinical Professor of Critical Resources & Sustainability Analytics, University of Maryland Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and ...

Amazon’s push to build massive artificial-intelligence data centers is now extending into Arizona, where a recently restarted copper mine is supplying industrial metal seen as increasingly critical to ...

President Donald Trump has renewed his efforts to take over Greenland, and tapping into the Danish territory’s natural resources is a key part of the strategy. But even if Trump were to somehow make ...

Greenland has no shortage of valuable minerals. What it lacks is almost everything else needed to extract them. Greenland is one of the most logistically hostile environments on the planet — a place ...

A Michigan mine that is the only nickel mine in the U.S. is being sold. Talon Metals Corp. announced Thursday it will purchase the Eagle Mine in Michigamme Township, northwest of Marquette in the ...

Hated rivals Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett Jr. find brotherhood on a desolate planet in Wolfgang Petersen's cult sci-fi classic. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

What happens when two combatants of a massive conflict are isolated from their reasons for fighting each other? The idea that soldiers on opposite sides could find common ground because of an abrupt ...

The massive Red Dog mine is grappling with a problem that’s spreading across the Arctic: thawing permafrost. A glimpse of the mine’s challenges emerged in 2020, when its operator said efforts to ...

A Nevada County man was rescued by a team of firefighters early Saturday after falling down an abandoned mine shaft while searching for a lost dog late Friday, said Nevada County Consolidated Fire ...

Developers’ efforts to overturn the cancellation of a vast gold and copper mine planned for southwest Alaska are getting a boost from national mining and pro-business groups, including the U.S.