The plant will reportedly be located in Val-des-Sources – formerly known as Asbestos, Quebec – home to the infamous Jeffrey Mine, once the world’s largest open pit asbestos mine that ...

Despite the chaotic environment created by Trump’s tariff-fuelled trade war, Teck, Taseko and B.C.’s other copper-producing ...

A toxic pit could be a gold mine for rare earth elements The global scramble for metals critical to manufacturing and technology advances has caused demand to soar.

Higher prices in America suit miners with copper assets in the country just fine. The shares of Rio Tinto and ...

Newmont’s Boddington mine in Australia is number 16, with 590,000 gold ounces produced. Boddington became the world’s first open-pit gold mine with an autonomous haul truck fleet in 2021.

KUVIMBA Mining House has redesigned its Darwendale platinum development as an open-pit operation rather than the originally ...

Hundreds of employees and contractors working at Ekati Diamond Mine have been laid off after the mine's owner announced it was suspending open pit mining.

Utah jumped to second in a federal database of states’ total toxic chemical releases – a rise mostly attributable to the ...

About 200 activists demonstrated this Sunday in the capital of Panama against the possible reopening of the largest open-pit mine in Central America, owned by a Canadian company, which was shut down ...

To the north of the city lies one of the largest open-pit mines in the country. Shuozhou’s mines churn out 200m tonnes of the black stuff every year.