President Trump’s executive order to rename the Alaska peak — North America’s highest — perplexes and worries many who live in its snow-shrouded midst.

A coalition of environmental groups sued the Trump administration this week to thwart the approval of the Stibnite Gold ...

Several conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service in U.S. District Court on Tuesday challenging the ...

A coalition of local and national conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service Tuesday, Feb. 18 for its approval of the ...

Saturday's accident took place at an abandoned site formerly operated by a Chinese company, sources told AFP. In January, a landslide at a gold mine in southern Mali killed at least 10 people and ...

A gold mine has collapsed in the east of Mali, leaving a preliminary death toll of 42 and many injured, according to Malian national television and local authorities BAMAKO, Mali -- A gold mine ...

Authorities have launched a murder investigation after the bodies were found near an unused mine in Diepkloof, near Nasrec, on February 14. According to Gauteng police spokesperson Lieutenant ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A gold mine collapsed in eastern Mali, killing dozens of people and injuring many more, according to Malian television and officials in the Kéniéba district where the ...

A company called Perpetua Resources – formerly known as Midas Gold – has plans to resume mining for gold, silver and a ...

Just over a year ago, at least 40 people were killed after a tunnel collapsed in a mine. It is also common for illegal miners - mostly women - to try to recover gold from abandoned sites due to ...

At the abandoned ... the gold and people flocked to the area in droves. The Cracow Gold and Mineral Field was proclaimed in August 1932 and within six months, 768 claims and 225 mining leases ...