New open-pit coal mines in the foothills will be banned and steelmaking coal mines permitted under policies the Alberta government unveiled Friday. But the Alberta Coal Industry Modernization ...

But the job of getting lithium out of European ground is not easy. The metal is mostly found in hard-rock deposits. Open-pit ...

Dust from open cast mining suffocates surrounding forests and inhibits trees' ability to capture carbon from the atmosphere ...

Sanjit has been stuck in a 300-foot-deep pit in the mine, where around 100 feet is full of water, since Sunday with seven ...

At full production, Greenstone will be one of Canada’s largest and highest-grade open-pit gold mines, with output estimated ...

Calibre Mining poised for substantial growth in 2025 with robust asset base, Valentine gold mine, and promising exploration ...

The IAAC decided Coalspur Mines Ltd.'s proposed expansion of its open pit coal mine in west-central Alberta doesn't require a federal impact assessment because the company has been "actively ...

The U.S. Forest Service has issued a final record of decision approving the Stibnite Gold Mine Project in Central Idaho’s ...

"Even the definition of an open-pit coal mine, we have played this game before, where the government plays with definitions to create loopholes for industry." Northback Holdings, the company ...

When the project is finished, the excavation team will have moved 182,000 cubic yards of material, which is about 72,000 ...

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek attempted to greenwash Labor’s environmental record by falsely claiming not to have ...