Anfield first submitted its proposed operating plan in April 2024. The BLM initially found that both the plan and a follow-up application were deficient, and the mine’s progress was halted. But under ...

In the southeastern Utah desert famous for red rock arches and canyon labyrinths, the long-dormant uranium mining industry is ...

Trump Administration Reverses Planned Closures of 3 Dozen US Mine Safety ... coal companies to take the sometimes costly steps necessary to protect miners. MSHA is required to inspect each ...

Montana’s only underground coal mine could shut down by the end of 2025 if it can't expand onto federal land. That’s what Signal Peak Energy President and CEO Parker Phipps told Yellowstone ...

Oftentimes mice or small birds were taken underground to measure levels of carbon monoxide due to their sensitivities to gases, hence the phrase “canary in a coal mine.” This practice was ...

The owner of Montana’s largest coal mine is suing BNSF after a year of shipment struggles that Navajo Transitional Energy Company alleged resulted in millions of dollars lost NTEC, owner of ...

in part because state inspectors were seen as too close to the industry to force coal companies to take the sometimes costly steps necessary to protect miners. MSHA is required to inspect each ...

San Manuel Mine was once the world’s largest underground copper mining operation in size of ore body, production capacity and infrastructure. It is located in the Old Hat mining district on the ...

MSHA is required to inspect each underground mine quarterly and each surface mine twice a year. Mining fatalities over the past four decades have dropped significantly, in large part because of the ...

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