Surface mining in the northeast corner of Clark County could expand significantly if one property owner has its way. Synergy Resources has asked the county to consider expanding the so-called overlay ...

Surface mining uses a variety of often highly specialised equipment such as trucks, dozers and excavators for extracting resources from just below the Earth's surface. It is generally more ...

The Duparquet Project is geologically situated in the southern part of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt and is geographically located approximately 50 km north of the city of Rouyn-Noranda. The Project ...

When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it to a secluded hollow in the steep mountains above where he’d grown up ...

Researchers have pinpointed the optimal depth for transitioning from open-pit to underground mining at the Sijiaying Iron Mine in Hebei Province, North China. Published in Scientific Reports, the ...