Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

A coal mine in southeastern B.C. is seeking to expand operations as an investigation is underway into cross-border water ...

When Tom Hartz was a young lad in the 1950s, dragline power shovels had pretty much replaced the hardy miners that harvested coal hundreds of feet beneath the earth’s surface. Still, growing up in the ...

Humboldtine, a unique organic mineral with a distinct crystal lattice, gets uncovered in a government office because of a 1949 note.

Donald Trump has championed the mining industry. But workers worry fewer regulations could endanger their safety.

The UN Environment Programme’s International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO), with the support of Australia, today ...

Ottawa and the Northwest Territories have begun scanning and digitising decades-old drill cores in a pilot program that ...

In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about arm-wrestling them and announced he was signing ...

The Coal Miner’s Diner opened earlier this year with the motto “restoring history in Cumnock NC one meal at a time.” On its walls hang black-and-white photos documenting the region’s coal mining past.

That loss of staff and resources raises the likelihood that black lung could become even more pervasive among Appalachian coal miners – particularly if mining activity increases, said Drew ...

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.