A first phase of cleanup at Leviathan Mine southwest of Gardnerville is being called a success by water quality officials, who said more than 10 million gallons of polluted water at the mine’s ...

VICTOR • For two days, Micki Cain could hear her dogs barking, the cries echoing across the hills and mine building skeletons above this Teller County hamlet. But when she finally found the border ...

CARBONDALE — Despite public opposition, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has made a “tentative determination” approving Williamson Energy’s request to dump millions of gallons of diluted ...

The proliferation of pits and ponds created in recent years by miners digging for small deposits of alluvial gold in Peru's Amazon has dramatically altered the landscape and increased the risk of ...

Prior to the discovery of oil in commercial quantity at Oloibiri in present-day Bayelsa State in the 1950s, the country’s economy was sustained by agriculture and solid mineral resources, such as coal ...

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Ill. (KFVS) - Mach Mining Company and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources are monitoring Pond Creek Mine in Williamson County, Ill. According to IDNR Communications ...

HELENA, Mont. — Montana environmental regulators are seeking public comment on a company's proposal to expand a storage facility for mining waste above the city of Butte. Montana Resources wants to ...

DURHAM, N.C. - The proliferation of pits and ponds created in recent years by miners digging for small deposits of alluvial gold in Peru's Amazon has dramatically altered the landscape and increased ...

SPOKANE – State health officials are testing to determine whether radioactive contamination was spread on a wildfire after the pilot of a firefighting helicopter inadvertently scooped water from a ...

Shallow mining ponds dot the landscape in the La Pampa region of Madre de Dios, Peru. The colors of the ponds reflect suspended sediment and algae growth following the cessation of gold mining.