The U.S. Forest Service has issued a final record of decision approving the Stibnite Gold Mine Project in Central Idaho’s ...

A company called Perpetua Resources – formerly known as Midas Gold – seeks to resume mining gold, silver and the chemical ...

Coronado National Forest officials are seeking public feedback on a proposal to close dozens of abandoned mine shafts in Santa Cruz County.

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 ...

(New Mexico Source) A new federal law may speed up local government, tribal and nonprofit efforts to clean up abandoned mining projects threatening waters across the West. The law establishes a pilot ...

President Joe Biden this week signed off on bipartisan legislation aimed at advancing the cleanup of abandoned mines across the nation — breaking a legislative impasse that’s long frustrated ...

No injuries were reported. DEP Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation was made aware on Monday of the subsidence in the backyard of 267 Park Place Road. A sinkhole was reported at the same residence ...

A new federal law may speed up local government, tribal and nonprofit efforts to clean up abandoned mining projects threatening waters across the West, including in New Mexico. The law establishes a ...

Archaeologists working in Arizona have discovered what appear to be the oldest firearms ever found in the continental United States: two cannons abandoned by a Spanish expeditionary force that was ...

President Joe Biden signed the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act into law on Wednesday to clean up the Silver State’s 200,000 abandoned mines that pollute waterways and ...

Although aware of abandoned ... Stephen Alao, national president of the Association of Miners and Processors of Barite in Nigeria (AMAPOB). He noted that about 50 local barite mining companies ...