Rio Tinto Kennecott, the world's largest open-pit mine, is now open for visits for the 2025 season. Operating since 1903, this Utah-based open-pit mine has produced over 19 million tons of copper.

As long as anyone can remember, the Western Apache have used a site 60 miles east of Phoenix for a coming-of-age ritual.

A federal judge issued an injunction Friday that further delays the transfer of Oak Flat, an Indigenous religious site in Arizona, to a multi-national company that would make it one of the largest ...

Quick! Who knows what the official mineral is in the state of Utah? Nope, not salt, though salt is, indeed, a mineral. One ...

Anfield first submitted its proposed operating plan in April 2024. The BLM initially found that both the plan and a follow-up application were deficient, and the mine’s progress was halted.

Copper Ranch Mine near Milford, Beaver County, owned and operated by Milford Mining Company. The mine reopened in 2023 and is producing high-grade copper ore while investing in its future.

Prosecutors in Utah charged a 16-year-old boy with four counts of murder Friday for allegedly shooting to death three people, ...

Surface (open-pit) mining is constantly under increasing pressure of cost efficiency owing to deeper mines, increased waste ...

In 1917, Ray Consolidated Copper Co. produced 44,500 tons of copper, ranking as Arizona’s second-largest copper producer. Mine Tales: Copper made Ray the largest Pinal County town in early 1900s ...

EV Resources has sealed a 70 per cent stake in its high-grade Los Lirios antimony mine in Oaxaca, Mexico. The company will ...

A landscape painter and a ceramic artist from Missoula set up north of Warm Springs last summer for a residency. The art's on ...

Utah is home to one of the largest copper mines in the world — Rio Tinto’s Bingham Canyon Mine — visible from space. Copper Ranch mine near Milford, Utah, owned and operated by Milford ...