Investor sentiment, firm metals prices and 2025 milestones lifted gold, silver and copper leaders in December.

Mirror photo by Ryan Brown / Professor Ryan Mathur (left) prepares geological equipment to search for old lead mines with other geologists and Juniata College students in a field in Tyrone Township on ...

Artisanal lead mining in Nigeria is responsible for airborne lead exposures that are 10 times the U.S. Permissible Exposure Limit according to a study published today. This is the first study to ...

PARK HILLS, Mo. -- Sometimes wind rattles the windowpanes and boards, but for the most part Federal Mill No. 3 is quiet. Smokestacks have rusted. More than 1,000 miles of underground mine tunnels have ...

Steve Hench watches his 3-year-old son, Oliver Hench, swinging in a park in Weir, Kansas. WEIR, Kansas — Johanna Schmid and her husband, Steve Hench, live in an older home in Weir, Kansas. Their lives ...

While the process of mining itself has changed, becoming more centralized and being managed by large computer centers, companies such as NiceHash continue to serve small and big miners across the ...

Pickle Creek runs two miles through Ste. Genevieve County’s sandstone valleys. It carries some of Missouri’s cleanest water, but residents worry that could change if NexGen Silica gets full approval ...

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San Francisco, October 21, 2019 - A pilot program to introduce safer mining practices in Nigerian gold mining communities has reduced blood lead levels by 32% according to a study published today.

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ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — Cold wind blew across a Tyrone Township farm field Saturday as a handful of geologists and Juniata College students gathered atop mysteriously bare patches of ground. To the ...

A company called Nexgen Silica hopes to build a mine in St. Genevieve County. Residents who live with the toxic legacy of lead mining worry history could be repeating itself. Pickle Creek runs two ...