“Microbes are the world’s oldest miners,” says Liz Dennett, founder and CEO of the start-up Endolith Mining, based near ...

VIRGINIA, Minn. (FOX 9) - Two 15-year-old boys were rescued over the weekend after falling into a 100-foot mine pit near the ...

Metals analysts are cutting their estimates of global copper supplies for this year and next after an accident at the giant ...

Miner Freeport Indonesia said on Thursday that the search for five missing workers at the Grasberg copper and gold mine was still ongoing, more than three weeks after a deadly mud flow disaster at the ...

Large metropolitan areas in central and western China are powering ahead, but will the benefits of their growth spill over?