What happened when disaster struck 300 feet below ground in a coal mine? Mine Rescue Day at the Anthracite Heritage Museum in ...

After two seasons of closure for repairs, the underground mine tours at Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park are ...

One state agency required an Horry County sand mine to put up special fencing to protect the environment, but environmental efforts by another agency burned it down, according to a new lawsuit. The ...

Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with metals. These acidic discharges, known as acid mine drainage, are among the ...

The nation’s only operational lithium mine received the federal government’s approval to expand, allowing it to use new technology to increase its yield up to 100 percent, according to a Friday news ...

The Johnson Tract project is unique because the mine is in the middle of Lake Clark National Park, near the base of Mount Iliamna. The owners of the proposed Johnson Tract metal mine in Lake Clark ...

At the base of a barren mountain, near a long-abandoned machine shop along a highway in rural Letcher County lies an unassuming pond shrouded in overgrowth and surrounded by metal pipes and rusted ...

Greenland features numerous mineral deposits, but mining there poses many challenges. Lumina, Greenland's sole fully operational mine, extracts anorthosite in tough Arctic conditions. Lumina's ...

Elizabeth Griffith, the pregnant widow of Scotia miner Robert Griffith, clutches the flag from his coffin. Robert Griffith was a veteran of the Vietnam War. He was laid to rest in Whitesburg after ...

A merchant vessel transports decommissioned U.S. Navy Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships through the Arabian Gulf. (MC2 Iain Page/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy decommissioned half of its Avenger-class ...