Judy Slack, a local historian and the vice president of the Big Horn City Historical Society, said building a city on the top of Bald Mountain — a peak more ...

Minnesota-based Talon Metals will convert the shuttered Beulah Mine into the nation’s second nickel processing plant, with ...

BEULAH, N.D. (KFYR) - The old Westmoreland coal mine in Beulah is going to be repurposed in the coming years.

Then came the coal-fired power plants ... In the southeastern Utah desert famous for red rock arches and canyon labyrinths, the long-dormant uranium mining industry is looking to revive under ...

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts ... filled with sand or rock — up the mine shaft. When additional energy ...

In the Loess Plateau in China’s Shaanxi province, where coal mining has long been synonymous with back-breaking labour and perilous conditions, the Dahaize Mine is rewriting the rules of the ...

The Spring Creek Coal Mine is already the largest in Montana and will get the expansion it has been seeking for more than 20 years. On Thursday, the Department of the Interior announced that the ...

The Utah Inland Port Authority has added a coal mine to its development plan in Carbon and Emery counties. The Fossil Rock Mine, formerly called the Trail Mountain Mine, closed in 2001.

Among the workers is 36-year-old Iryna Ostanko, effusive and athletic, smiling at her fellow coal workers in the cold dawn as they walk to the mine, owned by DTEK, Ukraine's private energy supplier.

In the last week before Christmas, without any announcement, the Albanese Labor government approved four significant coal mine expansions, while hypocritically claiming it had approved no new coal ...

In the meantime, the discovery of the plants has spared Boyboyba from mining activities. The forest, in a deep hollow on the side of a ridge, had been designated as a dumpsite for rock waste.

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