If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

Then a noisy strip mining operation hunkered nearby, and now the mountaintop is scarred, the well water stinks and the salamanders are gone. "When you go up to the top of the mountain, there's ...

Strip Mining Worsened the Severity of Deadly Kentucky Floods, Say Former Mining Regulators. They Are Calling for an Investigation In past flooding, hydrologists have calculated runoff 1,000 times ...

Two former state and federal mining regulators say state and federal authorities should investigate the role strip mining played in devastating and deadly flooding in Eastern Kentucky and the ...

Haymaker went out with a friend to kayak and fish in the strip-mining pit, but he never came back. From the drone footage we captured, the water in the strip-mining pit looks pristine, but Zangari ...

Two former mining regulators want an investigation into just how badly strip mining impacted the recent, deadly Eastern Kentucky floods. "If you get an area that has been strip mined, and the soil ...

Many are a result of strip mining or mountaintop removal mining, the latter a method in which mining companies use explosives to blast off a mountain's summit to get to the coal inside.

Surface mining includes strip mining and open pit mining. Strip mining is more commonly used for coal and silver deposits, while pit mining is used for gravel mining, like those in the Washougal ...