Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Now, researchers working to prevent those deaths get ...

Vancouver, British Columbia, home to dozens of companies searching the world for minerals, has a special interest in the ...

A company that has spent years battling conservationists as it seeks a permit to mine outside the Okefenokee Swamp and its ...

Critical Metals Corp has received a letter of interest from the U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM) for a loan worth up to $120 ...

In the 1800s, gold, silver and copper booms lured miners and immigrants looking for a better life. Though the mines ...

China’s rare earth dominance gives it powerful trade leverage over the U.S., as both sides seek a framework for easing ...

The high-level negotiations over China's export controls of rare earths is giving U.S. businesses some relief, even though it may be only for now.

Aryn Baker explores how the "Wakanda Rule" offers African nations a blueprint to turn mineral wealth into climate power.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In the southeastern Utah desert famous for red rock arches and canyon labyrinths, the long-dormant uranium mining industry is looking to revive under President Donald Trump.

Florida Crystals and U.S. Sugar Corp. want to blast their fields to mine rock. Captains for Clean ... that's used to make roadbeds. Then they would turn the mined land into an 8,600-acre reservoir ...

Panama will allow controversial mine to export already mined copper to fund maintenance ‘Facts matter:’ Lester Holt ends ‘NBC Nightly News’ tenure ...