One of those is that coal dust ends up all over the place and severely clogs nearby ecosystems. An international team of ...

As cleanup of a contaminated old mining site near Lake Las Vegas continues to make way for thousands of new homes, this ...

A big new mining project is coming together near Patagonia—-promising well-paying jobs, while environmentalists worry about what the mine could do to the area.

The moon dust shield would lower Earth’s temperature, as well, helping combat global warming. But, to pull off those kinds of numbers, humans would need to mine roughly 11 million tons of moon ...

Once the machine is extracting the gypsum, the tunnel is engulfed in dust The mine has been here since 1977 and these days machines can cut through 3.3ft (1m) of gypsum per hour. "It just peels it ...