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 ...

Deep under Indonesia’s Papua mountains lies Grasberg, the colossal gold mine fueling a multi-billion-dollar empire and global ...

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 ...

Quests are aplenty in the popular game The Forge, found on Roblox’s platform. Assisting a Bard to reunite with his lost guitar, destroying zombies and skeletons for a helpful boost of experience, or ...

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Dec 15 (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans more "historic deals" with the U.S. mining sector to boost production of critical minerals for the national defense and high-tech sectors, a senior ...

Nov 14 (Reuters) - North Korean troops who helped Russia repel a major Ukrainian incursion into its western Kursk region are now playing an important role in clearing the area of mines, the Russian ...

A massive search operation continued Wednesday in West Virginia, where officials said crews were "working around the clock" and continuing "aggressive" efforts to locate a missing coal miner who ...

If there is, or ever has been, life on Mars, the chances are it would exist in caves protected from the severe dust storms, extreme temperatures, and high radiation present on its surface. One place ...