To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals. Mining those metals from ...

Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville — a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the Arkansas River basin ...

LEADVILLE, Colo. — Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville — a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the ...

Climate activists worry about the high-energy demand for bitcoin mining. A once-dormant power plant is humming with activity outside Pittsburgh as thousands of miners work 24 hours a day. The miners ...

New research shows that magnesium and other metals in mine waste can be solubilized and recovered thanks to acid-producing bacteria. Researcher Nathan van Wyk believes that the method has great ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LEADVILLE — Millions of tons of waste from decades-old mining operations sit in the hills east of town. The brown and orange piles of abandoned ore rise 30 ...

Costing more than two million euros and paid for almost in full by the EU, Serbia’s Cadastre of Mining Waste was created four years ago but is yet to provide much-needed clarity on often hazardous ...