The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement released its decision on leasing federal coal tracts near the Spring Creek Mine in Decker, relying heavily on a presidential executive ...

Black Rock manganese ore mine. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Mining company Assmang on Monday refuted allegations that it engages in the illegal mining of sugilite at the Black Rock mine in ...

PGMs were the largest negative contributor to mining production decline in February Mining production decreased by 9.6% year-on-year in February, Statistics South Africa reports. The largest ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. While “there’s a lot of room ...

Diplomats from more than 30 nations have criticized a proposal that could allow the start of seabed mining by 2027. By Eric Lipton Reporting from Washington Nearly 40 nations, big and small ...

President Trump on Tuesday is expected to sign an executive order aiming to bolster U.S. coal mining. In the order, Trump will define coal as a “mineral,” allowing it to benefit from a ...

China’s overseas mining investment under its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) hit another peak last year at $21.4 billion, as the government continues to place heavy emphasis on raw materials for ...

As concerns over Earth’s limited resources continue to grow, some entrepreneurs are eagerly looking beyond our planet to establish the next big business venture: asteroid mining. The prospect of ...

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 ...

President Trump’s executive order to increase domestic critical mineral production has been interpreted as a pro-industry move or a nod to traditional energy sectors. It is both — but more ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

An Indigenous community in the heart of the Peruvian Andes is doing what most of its peers in mineral-rich areas around the world aren’t: mining and profiting from their ancestral lands.