In late September, an underground coal mine just outside the town of East Carbon in rural Utah caught fire. More than two months later, it’s still burning. Now, the once-bustling mine called Lila ...

Colorado's West Elk coal mine is violating methane leak caps, the state says, and environmental groups want strict enforcement.

This page contains technical reports, studies, and meeting proceedings related to EPA's Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) Program. These technical resources cover such topics as: AML contamination assessment ...

Underground at South32’s Hermosa project in Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains, July 16, 2026. Photographs Story Justin Worland More expansive than the island of Manhattan, Thacker Pass in northern Nevada ...

The fortunes of a remote tungsten pit have risen and fallen through more than a century of conflicts. The critical mineral could now be a deterrent. Near a windswept beach off the southern coast of ...

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For more than a decade, the threat of a huge, open-pit copper and gold mine has loomed over the heart of pristine salmon spawning territory in Bristol Bay, Alaska. In Jan. 2023, following a U.S. Army ...

The Ballarat Gold Mine has received approval to develop an open-air waste storage facility following a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal hearing. The mine's current tailings storage facility ...