Nearby, mining counties across Virginia’s slice of Appalachia were reeling after decades of job loss. Mr. Stacy and his friend Jim McGlothlin, both former coal magnates, seized on what they ...

Days after the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) approved a controversial exploratory coal mining project in the Rocky Mountains, concerned residents protested in the Crowsnest Pass to voice their ...

The Trump administration is taking a step toward potentially allowing companies to trawl for minerals under the ocean floor ...

The short version: a set of scalable, self-funding policy measures could cut fugitive emissions from coal mines in NSW and QLD by around half – at less than $30 per tonne of CO2e – with low to ...

An abandoned mine on Earth can replicate those conditions and serve as an ideal proving ground for the technologies we need,” she said. “A coal mine’s perpetual darkness and stable ...

2:12 Hearings into proposed Grassy Mountain Coal Mine wrap up Hearings into proposed Grassy Mountain Coal Mine wrap up Regulator hearings begin for Grassy Mountain coal project Last year ...

In a mine located in Hami city, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a fleet of 91 homegrown autonomous trucks — each hauling 70 to 100 tons of coal — thunders across the site ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

It added that the applications weren't for a coal mine, but for an exploration program at the existing unreclaimed Grassy Mountain mine site. "The exploration program is designed to improve ...

The lead proponent is Northback Holdings Corp., which owns a huge swath of land that was, until the 1960s, teeming with coal mines above and under the ground. It is one of the many companies owned ...

A truck prepares to haul coal at the North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming, the largest coal mine in the world. Peabody Energy Inc. This story was originally published by Floodlight, a nonprofit ...