The Interior Department said Tuesday that Congress and the executive branch must modernize a 150-year-old hard rock mining law to speed domestic development of renewable energy. A federal interagency ...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is recommending changes to a 151-year-old law that governs mining for copper, gold and other hard rock minerals on U.S.-owned lands, including making companies ...

These super sized rock trucks are on their way to drop a load of Platinum rich rock into the crusher. These trucks can carry more than 200 tons of rock at a time, and are too large for public roads.

Intelligent technology is driving remarkable advancements in underground mining, particularly in hard rock mines. As mineral resources are increasingly found at greater depths, there is a growing ...