Heavy flooding in Romania's Harghita County has caused critical conditions at the historic Praid salt mine, a major tourist attraction. Authorities are assessing the damage. Heavy flooding in ...

The floods in recent days have swollen a stream near the partially inundated salt mine, which has been shut down since 5 May. The mine is among the biggest tourist attractions in northern Romania ...

This can cause serious environmental, social and economic damage. One such mine disaster happened in February 2025 in Zambia at the Sino-Metals Leach Zambia copper mine. Over 50 million litres of ...

Located on State-managed land, the Cowboy State Mine benefits from a significantly simplified permitting framework compared to projects on Federal lands. The groundwater wells will now be ...

The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Apaches seeking to block a copper mine project on sacred land in Arizona. This decision upholds lower court rulings that permit the land ...

The Supreme Court turned down a request by grassroots group Apache Stronghold to hear arguments in a case over a huge copper mine at Oak Flat. Resolution Copper wants to extract copper on land ...

Veins average 3 to 5 feet in thickness, including one as much as 12 feet at the Gowan Mine. Mineralization consists of principally gold with quartz as gangue (worthless material) along with some ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. South African miner Harmony Gold will pay $US1.03 billion ($1.59 billion) to acquire the Cornish ...

The gaping mouth of Resolution Copper Mining’s No. 10 shaft is 28 feet across and opens into a sheer drop of nearly 7,000 feet, making it the deepest continuous mine shaft in the United States.

West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi said in a video statement on Instagram that he had visited the mine and identified the vulnerability of a collapse before he was elected. "I saw that C-grade mining ...

Large-scale gold mining returns to the Northern Territory's Barkly region for the first time in 20 years. Commercial gold production could reach $500 million per year at current gold prices.

FILE - Members of Apache and others who want to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona gather outside the U.S. District Court, May 7, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York ...