Miners discover a one-of-a-kind amethyst crystal inside a large basalt geode in the Santa Rosa mine in Uruguay’s Artigas ...

Cleveland Cliffs plans to temporarily idle part of the facility, along with the Minorca Mine in Virginia, Minn., resulting in the layoffs of 630 workers. Cleveland-Cliffs plans to lay off ...

There’s more than $100 million of established infrastructure on the site, and the mine produced 25,000 ounces of gold at an all-in sustaining cost of $2,876 per ounce. The deal comes after ...

The collapse of a tailings dam—an earth-filled embankment used to store mining waste—on February 18 released an estimated 50 million liters of waste into the Kafue River, according to ...

Four European NATO members announced on Tuesday they will withdraw from the Mine Ban Treaty, marking the first time any country has left the agreement outlawing anti-personnel landmines since it ...

A catastrophic waste spill from a Chinese-owned copper mine in Zambia has left local authorities and environmentalists fearing the worst for its long-term impact on the Kafue River, the African ...

News Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Polish soldiers install a barbed wire along Polish border with the ...

The defense ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia said in a joint statement that they “unanimously recommend withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention” — the international antipersonnel mine ...

But it's not just the colour of the quartz, rather what the stone signifies. Green amethyst, also known as prasiolite, is said to symbolise compassion, abundance, self-reliance and prosperity.

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum computers ...

Just because a mine has been exhausted of its ore, that doesn't necessarily mean it has no value. A 2023 study suggests that the shafts of such abandoned mines could serve as energy-storing ...