Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...

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SCRANTON – As historic sites and museums celebrated Pennsylvania’s birthday, Justin W. Emershaw, a mining engineer with Hazleton-based Atlantic Carbon Group, provided a current look at one of the ...

A team of geologists analyzed 3,500 samples taken in and around coal mines in Utah and Colorado. Their findings open the possibility that these mines could see a secondary resource stream in the form ...

Environmental concerns are raised anew about potential contamination from Canadian open-pit mines flowing through the waterways into Montana’s lakes, harming fish. Elkview Operations, one of Teck ...

Despite the expected drop in U.S. coal production volumes, coal producers like HCC, BTU and METC are likely to remain ...