As the BLM opens the public comment period on Redhawk's Copper Creek project, community groups are organizing to protect to ...

For forests near open-pit coal mines, though, the future might not be so bright. "We knew this was the case, but we have learned that it is unfortunately worse — and more far spread — than we ...

By: Murray Macnab - Group Executive Technical Director at UMS Group Almost everything humans consume is grown or mined. As far back as 40,000 years ago, people excavated the earth for its minerals, ...

The U.S. Forest Service authorized Idaho Copper Corporation to construct up to eight miles of new roads and clear 122 drill ...

South Africa has many of the largest open pit mines in the world . When these were established, a large number of homes and graves had to be relocated. Read more: Mining activities continue to ...

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.

BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- China has initiated the large-scale operation of its domestically developed 120-tonne pure-electric mining trucks in open-pit mines, marking a breakthrough in the ...