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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add "hard rock" mining to the list of occupations associated with high rates of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a new study indicated, with silica exposure the presumed malefactor. Based on survey data ...

Starting just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, a vast underground deposit of lithium stretches south for 25 miles. A key ...

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.

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Anglers, guides, and conservationists are up in arms over a fast-moving plan that would bring a roughly 8,600-acre open-pit mine to the northern reaches of the Florida Everglades. If granted ...

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 ...

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has given preliminary approval of a controversial proposed rock mine project. The proposal would turn sugar farming land into a rock mine, which will ...