Laborers sift for sapphires at a mine near the village of Ambondromifehy in northern Madagascar. Behind them, the critically endangered Adansonia perrieri grows. Sapphire mines are common in this ...

The B.C. government is pushing ahead with legislation this month to fast-track approvals of new mines and other major projects. There are 17 critical mineral mines awaiting approval in the ...

Hundreds of protesters, including young and Indigenous peoples from three coastal villages, have demanded the closure of sand ...

Originally founded in 1885 as a mining school, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is the state’s modern leader in STEM education. More than three-quarters of students are engineers.

with talk of rolling back SEC overreach and possibly supporting US-based mining. Across the Atlantic, the MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets) regulation has gone into effect in the EU, offering ...

Gold mining in the canyon reached a zenith from 1883 to 1912; the canyon had been explored by Native Americans and Spanish explorers much earlier. Geographically, Glen Canyon extends 169 miles ...

We’ve come to associate Mexican cartels with the manufacturing and smuggling of drugs, as well as with bloodcurdling slaughter. But in the early 1900s, Mexico’s first cartel was formed around ...

We’re going to just keep mopping the ocean,” said Toya Manchineri, referring to Brazil’s administration effort to expel ...

The race to obtain bitcoin and other potentially lucrative cryptocurrencies is tied to a complex virtual process called “mining” — with high risks and high rewards for those who want to get ...

President José Raúl Mulino has signalled interest in a new partnership model that reinforces national ownership of the mine, but he cautioned that a full closure could take up to 15 years given ...