Background. The research begins by delineating the three stages of fragmentation relevant to cave mining: in situ fragmentation, primary fragmentation, and secondary fragmentation.

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An area of Lincoln National Forest known for a complex cave system was protected from oil and gas drilling and other mineral extraction, with the block on development extending for 20 years. The ...

“Potential conflicts with mining and fluid mineral development include significant earth disturbing activities, especially to sensitive cave resources,” read the report. Bones of an extinct ...

Oil and gas drilling could be blocked from a sensitive cave system in Lincoln National Forest, near the Permian Basin oilfields of southeast New Mexico.. The U.S. Forest Service proposed ...

Modern-day mining operations exposed the natural wonder by pumping water out of the 30-by-90-foot (10-by-30-meter) cave, which was found in 2000 near the town of Delicias.

On Thursday, 9-year-old Case Wallace and his class were participating in the Arizona Gold Mining Experience at the Cave Creek Museum when he found real gold at the stamp mill and gold panning station.

But when the Cave Gulch fire burned 28,000 acres in the Big Belt Mountains east of Helena in 2000, a new mining camp was revealed that could shed light on the lives of the men who searched the ...

Oil and gas drilling could be blocked from a sensitive cave system in Lincoln National Forest, near the Permian Basin oilfields of southeast New Mexico. The U.S. Forest Service proposed ...