The operational crackdown by the National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS) in the Ahanta West Municipality ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An undated photo from 2023 taken at the closed Questa Molybdenum Mine site. While cleanup of mining sites is costing taxpayers ...

Ekuphakameni is an abandoned mining village, in ruins, on the outskirts of Carletonville.

In 1999, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana took to the floor of the Senate to introduce a bill intended to help clean up abandoned and inactive hardrock mines across the western U.S. “The settlement of ...

In 1953, the Anaconda Minerals Company leased nearly 8,000 acres of land in central New Mexico from the Pueblo of Laguna to mine uranium for nuclear weapons. The company gouged and blasted away at the ...

Bapong, North West, residents are grappling with the devastating consequences of illegal mining, which has disrupted their ...

The perceived governance gaps create a persistent risk premium. Projects must promise higher returns to attract funding.

Abandoned coal mines could be significant sources of greenhouse gases, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Recent research reveals that these forgotten sites continue to influence our ...

Coal mining’s roots in the Pittsburgh area run deeper than the foundations of American democracy. Since the mid-1700s, years before the Declaration of Independence, Pennsylvanians have mined 250,000 ...