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 ...

Cleanup is underway after a strong storm system spawned hail, rain, high winds and tornadoes across the southern U.S. over ...

Her home town, Itaituba in Brazil’s northern Para state, is at the heart of the country’s illegal gold-mining trade ... walking in the forest, she will worry about her children, she says.

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 ...

JAMMU: A forest fire on Thursday triggered mine blasts along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said. There were no casualties or injuries, they said. The ...

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 ...

A woman who abandoned a nine-year-old boy in woodland and claimed he had gone missing has avoided jail. Ashley McGovern, 31, drove the boy to Brock Wood, near Dunbar in East Lothian, on the ...