The Metals Company, which has been trying for years to exploit battery materials strewn across the ocean floor, announced today that it has applied for a permit from the Trump administration to start ...

Running at a staggering depth of 3,891 metres down and 2,062 metres below sea level, a colossal mine in Africa is the deepest and richest gold mine in the world. Mponeng gold mine began producing ...

In Papua New Guinea, one company is digging what may become the world’s first operational deep-sea mining site. Videographer Edward Kiernan and special correspondent Willem Marx report.

It looks a little weird, as well, to see paddlers seemingly glide on their butts across the deep water that fills this former taconite mine ... The so-called Crystal Kayaks, imported from tropical ...

“Mining the deep sea will destroy one of the most mysterious ... plumes that could block out sunlight or cloud usually crystal-clear waters, that worry fishermen and environmentalists.

the largest quartz crystal producer in the U.S., says that his biggest mines are one to two acres in size and that his deepest is “maybe 120 feet.” The methods used to mine crystals also ...

SOUDAN, MINN. — It’s always 51 degrees, with a quality of darkness rarely experienced, at the bottom-most point of Minnesota’s oldest, deepest and richest mine. And after $9.3 million in ...

It is a mineral used to make types of plaster which coat our homes, schools and offices - and in Cumbria sits the world's deepest gypsum mine. Outside the small village of Long Marton, against the ...