Silver Mines is still trudging through the regulatory morass surrounding its planned Bowdens silver mine in New South Wales, so it has decided to spread its ...

U.S. President Donald Trump wants China to lift restrictions on exporting rare earths and other critical minerals that ...

While ghost town enthusiasts can't visit this crumbling deserted California town that was once a desert oasis, they can learn ...

Special to The Beacon Twin Pines Minerals has not produced the $2 million bond or other collateral required to receive its ...

On a quiet Saturday evening in Nevada County, California, a 15-year-old boy risked his life for his two dogs—and ended up ...

Officials said the teen descended into the 15 to 20-foot deep shaft in an attempt to rescue their pets. But instead, they ...

A California teen had to be rescued by a specialized team after becoming trapped in an abandoned mine shaft trying to save ...

This land is your land — until a foreign mining company wants it,” writes the owner and caretaker of a historic 19th-century ...

Many other states fund their abandoned-mine programs through coal-mine taxes. But Arizona, California and Nevada produce little or no coal. “If you don’t have any coal mines in your state ...

WASHINGTON — The government has endangered the public’s health and safety by failing to clean up abandoned mines on federal land in the West, according to a scathing audit released Friday.

The men became stranded 250 feet down the abandoned mine on April 19 after their equipment failed, San Bernardino County Fire wrote on social media Wednesday. A video of the rescue shows ...

But these same mines, mostly now abandoned, pose a high risk for thrill ... Martinez refinery fire on numerous deficiencies Opinion: California’s proposed ban on plants near homes could be ...