Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, has bought a more-than $1 billion stake in SpaceX SPCX0.98%increase; up pointing triangle, betting on founder Elon Musk and what she says is the potential ...

Workers at Karonga-based mining company Lotus Resources Africa Limited on Tuesday started an industrial sit-in over concerns on poor working conditions and overtime allowances. The sit-in follows a ...

A giant mining haul truck towers over a worker, showing the unbelievable scale and raw power of modern heavy machinery. With enormous tires, massive ground clearance, and the ability to carry huge ...

A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has killed at least 82 people, according to state media, the country’s deadliest mining disaster in more than a decade. Rescue efforts are still ...

Civil society groups have denounced the “arbitrary” arrests of 11 community leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo following a peaceful protest over the impacts of mining operations on local ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (KGO) -- Robotaxis may be getting all the attention, but robotrucks are already carrying a heavy load of the work at mining and farming sites. In 2008, Anthony Levandowski ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Central Arkansas Water and local conservation groups are raising the alarm over recent proposals to mine quartz in the Ouachita National Forest after a Forest Service ...

Alison Young, a long-distance backpacker, attends a rally to call for the protection of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness at the Minnesota State Capitol on ...

The Senate on Thursday overturned a mining moratorium in Minnesota's Superior National Forest, a boon for a Chilean mining conglomerate Antofagasta. The chamber voted 50-49 to overturn a 20-year ...

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