The federal government is updating the region’s geological maps to expand the search for critical minerals and rare earth ...

Hard-rock mining may no longer sustain Gilpin County, but some people in Central City and Black Hawk refuse to let the glory of their heritage pass away. Lew Cady, a Central City resident and amateur ...

Mere hours before he banged his gavel to adjourn this year’s session of the Alaska House of Representatives, Speaker Bryce Edgmon, I-Dillingham, introduced a bill to bar metals mining from the Bristol ...

The legacy of hard-rock mining is fraught with examples of gross pollution and taxpayer liability. Most recently, Pegasus Gold abandoned its mines in Montana and elsewhere in 1998, resulting in ...

Historically, lithium has been produced using two approaches: hard rock mining of spodumene deposits, as seen at the ...