China's mining industry has slapped the proverbial glove in the face of Western mining companies by deploying what it calls ...

At the Berkeley Pit, researchers hope to extract valuable metals to increase U.S. production of rare earths used in electric ...

although the vast majority of ore has come from more than a century of digging what was once the world’s largest open-pit mine. Today it employs more than 2,300 employees, including those from ...

But there's a tradeoff, as residents have learned near Charlotte, where a big open-pit mine is proposed. A company called Piedmont Lithium wants to build a mine and processing operation on 1,500 ...

Gold growth story Catalyst Metals has locked in government approval for the open-pit portion of its planned Trident mine in ...

MEXICO CITY, Aug 15 (Reuters) - A committee in Mexico's lower house of Congress approved two constitutional reforms that would prohibit open-pit mining and fracking, as well as restrict the use of ...