The Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) is converting a former mine shaft in Taebaek City into a ...

Rising temperatures could cause huge amounts of toxic materials to seep out of sealed-off mines into waterways ...

Apache tribal members are already feeling harm as the Trump administration moves to fast-track a deal to turn their sacred land of Oak Flat, Arizona, into a copper mine.

A record deposit of 80 million ounces of gold and silver and 12 million tons of copper has been discovered in the Argentine ...

At the Berkeley Pit, researchers hope to extract valuable metals to increase U.S. production of rare earths used in electric ...

A federal judge said the argument over allowing a land swap to proceed "tips sharply" in favor of the opponents of a copper ...

To obtain the copper ore, Resolution would use a method known as block cave mining, in which tunnels are drilled beneath the ore body, and then collapsed, leaving the ore to be moved to a crushing ...