As pressure mounts on the global mining industry to secure raw materials while reducing environmental harm, a once-overlooked ...

Effective tailings management is rightly being prioritized more than ever to ensure that regulators, communities surrounding mine sites, stakeholders, investors and the general public can have ...

In the AI and automation era, the world is in a race for critical minerals, and Georgia is positioned to lead the way with ...

A Tucson-based startup aims to turn mine tailings into usable products with technology invented by University of Arizona researchers, and it’s going after a big prize to advance its efforts. Auxilium ...

Across the West, early miners digging for gold, silver and copper had no idea that one day something else very valuable would be buried in the piles of dirt and rocks they tossed aside. There's a rush ...

The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) announced Wednesday it has published new editions of resources with updates designed to improve how mining companies plan and manage the closure ...

A mine vehicle enters the Kensington Portal on Oct. 15, 2019. It’s one of two accesses for a network of about 28 miles of underground tunnels. (Photo by Jacob Resneck/CoastAlaska) Kensington Gold Mine ...

A mine tailings dam in Madagascar has failed at least twice this year, sending hazardous wastewater into a lagoon relied on by locals for drinking and subsistence fishing, and allegedly killing ...

Century-old silver mines are long gone. But tainted tailings are still polluting Park City. Now the feds are suing to clean up the Superfund site. What are now world-class ski runs used to be ...

VIRGINIA — Minnesota regulators fined an Iron Range mine after tailings leaked from a pipeline last year. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on Wednesday said it fined Cleveland-Cliffs $16,750 ...

The reopening of an old copper and zinc mine in far East Gippsland is a step closer after the Victorian Government gave the go ahead for the development of a controversial tailing dam yesterday.