AUSTIN, Texas — In recent years, some Hill Country residents have said that the area's beauty is being overrun by the booming rock mining industry. For six months, the KVUE Defenders – in partnership ...

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 ...

Starting just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, a vast underground deposit of lithium stretches south for 25 miles. A key component of rechargeable batteries and energy grid storage systems, the soft ...

The Everglades Law Center filed a legal challenge over the Big Sugar rock mine. The environmental nonprofit filed suit on behalf of the Tropical Audubon Society. They hope to stop DEP from permitting ...

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A Canadian-funded mining company has staked nearly 4,000 acres of Lithium mining claims on the Black Rock Desert playa, a high profile alkali flat used for the annual 68,000-person Burning Man ...

A study commissioned by the Montana Mining Association, which also supplied underpinning data, reports that the industry’s economic contributions are significant in the state. Titled “The Economic ...

These super sized rock trucks are on their way to drop a load of Platinum rich rock into the crusher. These trucks can carry more than 200 tons of rock at a time, and are too large for public roads.