One of those is that coal dust ends up all over the place and severely clogs nearby ecosystems. An international team of ...

Open-cast mining, where coal is dug out of the ground through a giant, open pit, destroys habitats. South Africa has many of ...

The Granite Creek project is proximal to the Twin Creeks and Turquoise Ridge mining operations run by Nevada Gold Mines.

I-80 Gold says the Mineral Point project at the Ruby Hill Complex near Eureka has the potential to become one of Nevada’s ...

The interim government is weighing the option of open-pit coal mining, reviving a controversy settled almost two decades ago ...

In Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina, an open-pit brown coal mine is sparking protests among locals. Farmers say the mine threatens their livelihoods and are leading the fight to protect their land.

It was ranching families from (near) Nanton who were going to have their generational ranches affected and in some cases destroyed by open pit mines and their water greatly affected,” Lund told ...