Open-pit mining is a type of surface mining used to extract coal, gold, and other minerals. It creates immense water and air pollution, disfigures landscapes, and destroys habitats.

The developer of what would be the first new coal mine in Wyoming in decades is launching a potentially half-billion-dollar ...

The Interior Department signed off on a mine on Nature Conservancy-managed forestland in Tennessee. The Trump administration ...

Wyoming's Brook Mine that aims to reduce U.S. foreign reliance on critical minerals for defense, technology and clean energy ...

After open-pit coal mines were proposed for the area, a bi-national board created by a reference to the International Joint Commission determined that mining couldn't occur without disastrous ...

Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd proposed a "Techno-Economic Feasibility Study for Open-Pit Coal Mining in the Northern and Southern Part of Barapukuria Coal Basin, Parbatipur, Dinajpur, Bangladesh ...

Open-pit coal mines will be forbidden in the foothills under a new policy announced by the Alberta government on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. However, metallurgical coal mines would be allowed.

Researchers argue that 300GW of solar energy could be produced at Mpumalanga’s old mines and those closing in the next decade ...