The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

The Morenci Mine is the largest copper mine in the US and one of the biggest in the world. As of 2007, operations ran around ...

Rio Tinto Kennecott, the world's largest open-pit mine, is now open for visits for the 2025 season. Operating since 1903, ...

Colombia’s wind energy plans in La Guajira are faltering as major companies exit and projects remain stalled. Despite early ...

Join us as we venture deep into one of the most expansive and eerie coal mines we've ever explored. With miles of dark ...

A “supergiant” gold ore deposit under an existing gold mine in China could be the world’s largest gold ore deposit. Officials ...

In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, regional mines still provide jobs. The Department of Environmental ...

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency has long held the keys to a potential motherlode — vast quantities of metals located on the remote seafloor.

France might have just hit the jackpot because this discovery could be the end of coal for the nation, and maybe for the world too. The European country ... has been known to be a coal mine and over ...

Johannesburg was discovered in 1886, following the discovery of the main Witwatersrand gold reef, which today houses the world's deepest mine. The Witwatersrand, known locally as the Rand and ...

It is a mineral used to make types of plaster which coat our homes, schools and offices - and in Cumbria sits the world's deepest gypsum mine ... old saying from the coal miners: It's always ...