The Trump administration this week expedited approval of a southwest Wyoming coal mine’s expansion. The Office of Surface ...

Plans to fix up abandoned mine lands and clean a mine-polluted watershed in two Schuylkill County municipalities are moving ...

Surface mining in the northeast corner of Clark County could expand significantly if one property owner has its way. Synergy Resources has asked the county to consider expanding the so-called overlay ...

Granite Construction’s surface mining operations in the Chelatchie Bluff mineral lands in the northeast corner of Clark County may not be dead after all. On Tuesday, the Clark County Council voted 3-2 ...

Federal officials have chosen a long-lingering uranium mining proposal in southwestern South Dakota for an expedited ...

Lewis Ritchie pulls a kayak through floodwater after delivering groceries to his father-in-law on July 28, 2022 outside Jackson in Breathitt County. (Photo by Michael Swensen/Getty Images) Over a week ...

LETISHA VAN DEN BERG The opencast and surface mining sector can supply all the products to fix the construction and maintenance issues currently associated with road and water infrastructure Amid the ...

The revamped rule will allow people living near coal mines to more easily bring their complaints to federal regulators. The Interior Department unveiled a final rule Thursday that reverses prior Trump ...

During the 2025 season, Blue Star undertook targeted prospecting, mapping and pXRF lithogeochemical chip sampling across the ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Mining is one of the toughest industries on Earth, especially below the surface, where equipment must perform in confined ...