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A new mining agreement provides no benefits for Mexico and fails to address health and…
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The Malawi government has suspended the mining license of a coal company for dumping mining…
Congressional Republicans have sent President Donald Trump a resolution that would lift a federal ban…
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The community of Capirona faces an unprecedented water crisis due to illegal mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon. This situation represents one of the largest cases of water pollution in indigenous territories. Illegal gold extraction has turned vital rivers into toxic…
A federal court decision on March 31 could see land surrounding Chaco Canyon National Historic Park losing its public land protection, leaving more than 300,000 acres vulnerable to oil and gas drilling. Chaco Canyon is located in the San Juan…
However, the mining process also generates a byproduct called phosphogypsum. Florida currently holds an immense amount of this byproduct, with estimates of around one billion tons reported. Recent legislative efforts such as Florida’s HB 1191 in 2023, are exploring innovative disposal and reuse methods for phosphogypsum, including its potential application in road construction.…
Federal officials have selected a second Black Hills mining proposal for an expedited permitting process. The Bear Lodge Rare Earth Mining Project is on the Wyoming side of the Black Hills, and it’s expected to produce rare earth elements critical…
Two miners in West Virginia — one in Raleigh County and another in Marshall County — died in separate mining incidents between Thursday evening and Friday morning at mines facing dozens of federal citations for safety violations since the beginning…
Highland Copper (OTCQB: HDRSF) was acknowledged in a White House April 6, 2026 Fact Sheet as a contributor to expanding U.S. copper mining, smelting and fabrication. The Fact Sheet ties this buildout to strengthened Section 232 tariffs on steel, aluminum…
The largest known deposit of the critical mineral fluorspar in the United States is underneath parts of far western Kentucky and southern Illinois. Some say its applications in artificial intelligence could reawaken the region’s mining industry. Over 100 years ago,…
As China runs away from the rest of the world in developing renewable energy, its coal mining industry is facing the prospect of major change Yang Haiming didn’t stop working when he retired from the coal mines at age 60.…