But there's a tradeoff, as residents have learned near Charlotte, where a big open-pit mine is proposed. A company called Piedmont Lithium wants to build a mine and processing operation on 1,500 ...

A road critical to operating a proposed open-pit mine in a remote part of Alaska hit a new hurdle Friday when the Biden administration issued a finding that the road could threaten Alaska Native ...

A fleet of 100 Huaneng Ruichi autonomous electric mining trucks, the first of its kind in the world, has officially entered operation at the Yimin open-pit mine in Inner Mongolia, China.

At least 16 people died when the mud wall of an illegal gold mine collapsed in the jungles of southern Venezuela, officials said Thursday, revising down an earlier figure. The incident happened ...

LA PARAGUA, Venezuela — An illegally operated open-pit gold mine collapsed in central Venezuela while dozens of people were working there, leaving an undetermined number dead or trapped ...

A proposed open pit industrial-grade garnet mine located approximately 4.5 miles southeast of Alder is the focus of a scoping meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, in the Alder Community ...

HELENA - Still hopeful of finding investors who can put up the $50 million necessary to get their open-pit mine operational again, officials with Montana Tunnels Mining in Jefferson County have ...