The Jackpile-Paguate became the world’s largest open-pit uranium mine ... and kidney disease — from the mine and its pollution. There are at least 250,000 abandoned mining “features ...

Researchers in South Korea have conducted a literature review on recorded cases of floating PV plants placed on mine pit ...

New mining projects seeking ultra-rare elements at formerly abandoned mine sites along tributaries to Idaho's Salmon River offer to boost the United States' domestic supply chain for things like ...

Some 600 miles west of Giant Mine is Faro Mine, a decommissioned open pit lead-zinc mine in Canada’s Yukon territory whose massive tailings are threatening to leach heavy metals and other toxins ...

When the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expired on June 10, 2024, Mildred Chino was among the many who felt the final ...

This land is your land — until a foreign mining company wants it,” writes the owner and caretaker of a historic 19th-century ...

Nevada Copper operates both underground and open-pit mining. It changed hands several ... and social issues associated with abandoned mines built on Indigenous land. Concerns of Indigenous communi ...

It’s one of the country’s biggest environmental problems, and tens of thousands of abandoned mines have ... the Anaconda Copper Co. closed the open-pit mine, turned off the pumps and let ...

Once a mining pit, a long-unused quarry ... miners for sand and gravel built a 140-foot-deep pit at the site. But since the 1960s, the pit has been abandoned. Chandler’s Sand and Gravel bought ...