The goal is to boost domestic mining of lithium and other minerals officials say are critical to national security and the ...

The Gold King Mine disaster continues to impact communities, including the Navajo Nation. New legislation aims to provide ...

Utah has a history rich in mining including copper, silver and uranium. Often when mines no longer produced, they were simply abandoned, leaving equipment, open shafts, tunnels and piles of waste ...

Some activists think the Trump administration's public lands initiatives — including a new review of a national monument's ...

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President Donald Trump issued a March executive order to increase American mineral production to protect national security.

Trump put the Oak Flat mine project on a priority list of mines a day after announcing the feds would try to speed up a land swap needed for the mine.

A growing emphasis on clean energy means global demand for copper can only grow. BHP, the world’s biggest mining company, projects copper demand to explode and rise by 70% in 2050, reaching 50 ...

and the Lisbon Valley copper mine in Utah — on a faster schedule. Federal officials said it would allow for "more transparent" environmental review and authorizations, which the administration ...