The gold rush to the far reaches of Kansas Territory (Colorado) in 1859 brought tens of thousands of hopeful fortune seekers west from the States. Health and wealth were the ...

Gushing waterfalls race over moss-covered rocks; forested trails lead to abandoned coal mines; and dramatic rocky cliffs ...

In the lush northern stretch of Saskatchewan’s boreal forest, frustrations are mounting. Clear-cuts creep closer, elevating a ...

May marks the anniversary of two of the most defining, but often overlooked, battles in American labor history: the Matewan ...

Corn ethanol, also known as grain alcohol, has been burned in gasoline engines and human stomachs since before Henry Ford was ...

The fate of a massive coal mine ... Vista coal mine,” he added, noting the company’s own application says water from tailings will seep through into the nearby McPherson Creek “approximately ...

“Coalspur has also consistently demonstrated a failure to manage tailings from the existing Phase I of the Vista coal mine,” he added, noting the company’s own application says water from tailings ...

Tent Mountain in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, where Montem Resources proposed to mine coal. Photo by Bob Spirko ... levels of selenium in Crowsnest Creek downstream of the Tent Mountain site.” ...

A decade of inflationary pressures in the mining sector appears to be over, with bulk commodity producers Fortescue, Whitehaven Coal and Stanmore Coal telling investors their unit costs were ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has approved the expansion of an underground coal ... waste mine water and then discharge the treated waste water into Indian Creek, a ...

Mackay District Court heard Soden stole a transformer worth more than $35,000 from the Oaky Creek Coal storage yards, between Tieri and Middlemount in the Bowen Basin. Judge Loury said “there ...