A Greek court on Friday acquitted 21 people accused of raiding prospective gold mining facilities that some see as a welcome foreign investment but many local residents strongly oppose on environmental grounds.
Read moreA $444 million plan to build a new federal prison in a sensitive region of Appalachia ravaged by coal-mining operations drew a lawsuit Monday from 21 inmates.
Read moreElectronics salesman Leszek Jaworowski says he can’t discuss Poland’s coal mining with his father. They end up at loggerheads, just like many families in the southern mining region of Silesia.
Read moreThe Idaho Conservation League claims in a federal complaint that the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of the Kilgore Exploration Project, a five-year mining project in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, would hurt “sensitive species” including grizzly bear, whitebark pine, spotted frog and cutthroat trout.
Read moreArguing the measure steps on the federal government’s authority, an attorney for a group of companies that want to mine the largest uranium deposit in the United States urged the Supreme Court on Monday to toss out a Virginia law banning uranium mining.
Read moreSix states, seven tribes and the United States want two zinc smelters and their top officers ordered to bear the costs of cleaning up dozens of old mining and smelting sites and the rivers they polluted.
Read moreForty years ago, the largest uranium deposit in North America was discovered under the sleepy Appalachian foothills of Southern Virginia. On November 5, the long-running dispute over its potential development will make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreMining giant Asarco brought a federal complaint against eight unions, claiming it has the right to terminate medical and prescription drug benefits “to certain retired employees, who retired on or after January 1, 2007.”
Read moreU.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke approved a 20-year ban on new mining claims in the towering mountains north of Yellowstone National Park on Monday, after two proposed gold mines raised concerns that an area drawing tourists from the around the globe could be spoiled.
Read moreA German court blocked the felling of an endangered forest Friday, drawing cheers from environmentalists who had protested against the expansion of a nearby coal mine.
Read moreSpending on outdoor recreation outpaced Big Oil’s contribution to the U.S. economy according to federal statistics released Thursday, prompting critics to renew their attacks on Trump administration policies of ramping up oil and gas leases on or near public lands.
Read moreCanadian gold mining firm Eldorado Gold is seeking 750 million euros ($875 million) in damages from the Greek state over delays in permits for mining work in the north of the country.
Read moreThe Idaho Conservation League brought a federal complaint against the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality and Department of Lands for allowing the abandoned Triumph Mine to discharge toxic pollutants into the Big Wood River without a permit.
Read moreA Canadian mining company must pay the $8 million it cost the Confederated Tribes of Colville to dig up evidence showing the company dumped toxic wastewater into the Canadian headwaters of the Columbia River, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday.
Read moreFederal law allows Oregon’s ban on suction dredge gold mining in rivers where salmon spawn, according to a Ninth Circuit ruling on Wednesday against a group of miners who challenged the restrictions.
Read moreThe Trump administration on Thursday lifted a major roadblock to mineral leasing for copper-nickel mining in national forests near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wildness in northeastern Minnesota.
Read moreUnlike terrestrial mining, extracting resources in space means confronting unique technical challenges, energy limitations, extreme temperatures and microgravity. But planning how to best venture into this uncharted territory is nothing new for the founder of the world’s first space resources degree program at Colorado School of Mines.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit agreed with the Oglala Sioux that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission “vitiate(d)” the National Environmental Policy Act by granting Powertech USA a license to mine uranium in the Black Hills without preparing an adequate environmental impact statement.
Read moreA world leader in gold mining recorded its 21st death this year because the South African company puts profits ahead of safety, Sibanye Gold Limited shareholders said Thursday in a federal class action.
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