When operational, the $2.16 billion mine is slated to produce zinc, manganese, lead and silver in a large underground facility in the Patagonia Mountains, about 75 miles southeast of Tucson.

State-owned utility NamPower has started construction on the 100 MW Sores Gaib Power Station in southern Namibia – its largest solar project to date.

As gold prices surge, West Africa mine operators launch drones to detect wildcat miners A high-tech cat-and-mouse game is playing out with increasing frequency as record gold prices, now sitting ...

As relics of our industrial past go, the Crawick Multiverse is a pretty unusual one. Once an opencast coalmine in Upper Nithsdale in southern Scotland, it is now a landscape artwork created by the ...

More than 20 people have died following a collapse at a coltan mine in the central African country Democratic Republic of Congo. Authorities said that at least 19 bodies were recovered yesterday from ...

The owner of the mine, Bowen Coking Coal Ltd, released a statement on Friday to the stock exchange. The mine could pause production within a matter of months. File image: NewsWire / Peter Lorimer.

A Moffat County wildfire is burning near the Colowyo Mine between Meeker and Craig on Colorado's Western Slope, officials said.

Stephen B. Morton/AP A high-profile, yearslong fight over a proposal to mine near the nation’s largest blackwater swamp in Georgia has come to an end.

At least 12 people have been confirmed dead following the collapse of an artisanal coltan mine in North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities reported on Friday. The mine, ...