Nestled among the pinyon pine, juniper and sagebrush on a rugged dirt road near the Utah-Nevada border are the last two ...

The new Brook Mine, though relatively small, offers a glimmer of optimism for Wyoming's coal industry as potentially the state's first new coal mine in 50 years.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The developer of what would be the first new coal mine in Wyoming in decades is launching a potentially half-billion-dollar effort to extract rare earth metals from the ...

National, state leaders to gather for Brook Mine ribbon cutting, Wyoming's first new coal mine in 50 years focused on rare earth minerals.

A southern Utah copper mine has restarted operations in an arrangement with Rio Tinto Kennecott, hiring workers as it expands operations.

The House Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday approved several bills that provoked sharp disagreements over mining coal, mapping offshore resources and permitting undersea fiber cables.

BARRACKVILLE — When Barrackville community leaders began putting together a memorial for victims of the town's mine disasters in March, Diana Marple thought it would take five years of $1,000 ...

Abandoned coal mines had left waterways acidic and rusty orange. Local residents are cleaning them up, and recovering valuable minerals in the process.

A Moffat County wildfire is burning near the Colowyo Mine between Meeker and Craig on Colorado's Western Slope, officials said.

Between 1900 and 1960, cave-ins, explosions, other disasters and mining accidents killed nearly 100,000 coal miners on the job. It’s unclear exactly how many more miners died in those years from ...

President Donald Trump has been adamant in voicing support for coal mining. From his first campaign, he has talked a lot about the importance of the industry as a domestic energy source. There ...

Nearly 15 years after the series of underground explosions at Pike River coal mine in New Zealand, some of the families of the 29 workers killed in the disaster are fighting to expose the full ...