As the former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, my job was to protect both public health and the ...

Rick Sr. discovered a 150-year-old abandoned gold mine on a remote Arizona ranch 40 years ago and dreamed of saving the old ore cart. Now, his son, owner of Murphys Diesel, has built Hellboy, a ...

Mali’s military-led government has completed its takeover of the Yatela and Morila gold mines. Reuters reported on Monday (June 30) that according to the Malian government, control of the Yatela mine ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

I approached both Tiffany and Apple and said if I could find opportunities in Alaska, in the Yukon, in B.C., to do a project ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87, police ...

When Emmanuel Siyabonga was a boy, he wasn't fussy about the type of job he wanted when he grew up. Other boys dreamed of being footballers, doctors, soldiers. All Siyabonga wanted, he says, was a job ...

Tribal members and conservation groups say they don’t want to see a legacy of mining pollution continue in the Taku River.