The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has removed the Butler Mine Tunnel in Pittston Township from its list of the nation’s most contaminated hazardous waste sites, the agency announced Tuesday.

Soaring international gold prices are driving up the price of mercury, a toxic metal key in illegal gold mining, to all-time ...

BOISE -- Rescue efforts have reached a section of a collapsed tunnel where rescuers had hoped to find an Idaho silver miner who has been missing underground for more than a week, a Hecla Mining Co.

Passengers and residents are being advised of long-term plans for the Cumbrian Coast Line after the closure of Whitehaven ...

BUTLER TWP. – A federal infrastructure law enacted in November might pay to treat polluted minewater from the Jeddo Tunnel, one of the most challenging environmental problems in the Hazleton area.

The soaring price of gold is fueling a mercury boom in central Mexico. A surge in the demand for the toxic metal, which is ...

Three Spanish geologists died in a tunnel collapse deep inside a potash mine in northeastern Spain on Thursday, officials said. The accident occurred inside the Cabanasses de Súria mine just before 9 ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has removed the Butler Mine Tunnel, notorious for spewing toxic chemicals into the Susquehanna River, from the Superfund National Priorities List. “Deleting ...

Development of the innovative new mining method for narrow tabular steep dipping orebodies and the mobile tunnel boring to ...