One of those is that coal dust ends up all over the place and severely clogs nearby ecosystems. An international team of researchers has found that the impacts, such as harming trees' ability to clean ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...