Salt is deeply encrusted onto the history of Wieliczka. Around 13.5 million years ago, seawater flooded this basin at the ...

A landslide last week collapsed tunnels at a major coltan mining site in eastern Congo, leaving at least 200 people dead ...

Persistent inflation, rising energy costs, and fundamental geological challenges, such as declining ore grades, are forging a ...

Archaeologists Find Massive Hidden Settlement Inside Ancient Egyptian Gold Mine ...

I never expected to find myself crouching in a humid mining tunnel, waiting — even hoping! — for a snake to slither its way toward me in the dark. But in late October, on an expedition in Baja ...