Witness how these powerful machines effortlessly handle massive quantities of coal, streamlining operations and setting new standards within the mining sector ... in Big Bend cave New image ...

The jagged 23-kilometre-long (14-mile) scar the gigantic rig has left mining for zircon — which is used in ceramics and the building industry — is so big it is visible from space. Amid a deafening din ...

Oil and gas drilling could be blocked from a sensitive cave system in Lincoln National Forest, near the Permian Basin oilfields of southeast New Mexico. The U.S. Forest Service proposed ...