Residents of Roxana, Kentucky, are battling it out over whether to transform a piece of land, which formerly housed a strip mine, into a federal penitentiary or to rewild it and let the bison roam ...

The Skagit County Board of Commissioners heard an appeal Tuesday regarding a Skagit County hearing examiner’s decision to ...

President Trump says he wants to make a deal for minerals from Ukraine in exchange for aid. That followed a long effort by ...

Doncaster’s mining heritage should not be forgotten a Labour MP has said after a Conservative mayoral candidate urged people in the city to “forget” the bitter 1984-85 Miners’ Strike.

"Unearth" follows two pairs of siblings who set out to understand what the mine might do to their home. It will screen during ...

On the morning of February 24th, 1923, a routine ascent from the depths of Medomsley Colliery turned into one of the darkest ...

More than a decade after Nevada lawmakers passed a bill to remove coal from NV Energy’s quiver, the state’s last ...

Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and ...

Record prices have gold in favour, but Precision Funds Management's Dermot Woods joins Stockhead to get creative with other value ASX stocks.

Tory MP David Simmonds urged the Government to learn ‘some of the lessons that we need to draw out’ of coal pit closures for the ...

With many open pit mines in Southern Africa reaching maturity, the scope for underground mining promises to create new opportunities for shaft sinking and underground mining specialists. As a leader ...

A new "time tunnel" exhibition which tells the history of British coal mining has opened in West Yorkshire. The feature, ...