A tiny mining town in western North Carolina was among those battered by Hurricane Helene — and the damage could have serious implications for the massive tech-industry supply chain that relies on it.

An illustration of the asteroid Apophis, which will make a close flyby of the Earth in April 2029. Credit: ESA Science Office A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from ...

The House passed a bill to expedite the domestic mining of critical minerals, aiming to decrease the United States’s reliance on China. House lawmakers voted 224-195 on Wednesday to pass the Critical ...

Tether has unveiled MiningOS (MOS) as part of a broader push to reduce the industry’s reliance on proprietary, vendor-controlled software. Tether has open-sourced a new operating system for bitcoin ...

A Vancouver-based mining company says 10 of its employees were abducted from one of its project sites in the city of Concordia in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa, which has been gripped by a ...

Simply sign up to the Mining myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The world’s biggest mining companies have added close to half a trillion dollars to their valuations this year, fuelled by ...

Before Oregon was known for timber, it was known for gold. That’s the underlying message of the new book “Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War into the Progressive Era.” Its author, ...

The U.S. House passed a resolution to repeal a 20-year ban on mining in Minnesota's Superior National Forest. Environmental groups oppose the measure, citing risks of toxic pollution to the nearby ...

President Donald Trump’s desire to claim Greenland for the U.S. has thrust the island’s wealth of natural resources firmly into the spotlight. But while geopolitical chatter can make it sound as ...

The Trump administration is accelerating the permitting timeline for deep-seabed mining applications. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) unveiled revisions to the regulatory ...

Hecla Mining Company HL and First Majestic Silver Corp. AG are both prominent names operating in the Zacks Mining - Silver industry. As competitors, these two are focused on extracting and operating ...

It’s a little-known fact that Columbia University, in Manhattan, was home to the first mining school in America—the School of Mines—founded in 1864. For the past three decades, the university’s ...