There's $67 billion in critical minerals in old electronics and mine waste. By some estimates, America has nearly all the ...

Scientists have discovered Amazonian bacteria capable of combating mercury contamination in areas affected by toxic mining.

Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville—a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the Arkansas River basin more ...

GOLDEN, Colo. and CEDAR PARK, Texas, June 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Colorado School of Mines and ElementUSA have been awarded $67 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to build a ...

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SILVERTON – What happens when you plant trees in a pile of mine waste? We’re about to find out. The U.S. Forest Service has embarked on a bit of a science experiment this summer, to see if trees, ...

Contractors with the Environmental Protection Agency will being work this summer on a repository north of Silverton to permanently store waste removed from mines within the Bonita Peak Mining District ...

Around noon one day in January 2019, a dam containing waste from a Brazilian iron mine collapsed, releasing 3.4 million tons of sludge. The cascade killed 272 people and flattened houses and buildings ...

Researchers have developed a new mining technique which uses microbes to recover metals and store carbon in the waste produced by mining. Adopting this technique of reusing mining waste, called ...

The Bush administration tweaked Clean Water Act regulations to reclassify mining waste as “fill.” Now, that revised definition has been applied to metals mining for the first time — allowing a gold ...

Papyrus Australia is converting discarded banana plantation fibre into biodegradable blast collars for open-cut mining.