Longtime gold and copper miner Robby Ruesch stands above a massive open-pit mine, owned by Las Vegas-based firm MP Materials and considered the world’s second-largest producer of rare earth ...

A Canadian company is moving ahead with plans to reopen a gold mine in the heart of California’s Castle Mountains National Monument, just across the state line from Searchlight.

Mining the pit is preparing the site for a detention basin in the future, he said. "The one thing that was utmost in our minds was getting the basin built and doing it with private funds," he said.

Blasting in 3 Kids Mine upsetting neighbors near Lake Las Vegas (FOX5) “Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep at 4:00 A.M… you can’t ignore it once you hear it… we are just literally across the street ...