5+ hour, 31+ min ago  (366+ words) After a Welsh council rejected plans to dig for 85, 000 tons of coal, the UK has no outstanding proposals for coal mining anywhere in the country. Carmarthenshire council turned down the second application for expanding the open-pit Glan Lash mine near…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (432+ words) As May drew to a close, a US district court issued a ruling that the federal government's attempts to undercut Endangered Species Act protections for the sake of coal mining were illegal. Coal mines had been allowed to rely on…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (471+ words) For areas contaminated by lead and zinc mining across Europe, a class of plants known as "metallophytes" are helping enrich nature while diminishing pollution. The Guardian reported on this kind of ecological double speak, where wildflowers seemingly grow in healthy…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (447+ words) Mining is heavy business, and this giant Komatsu excavator is too. It weighs 2 million pounds, but comes standard with fully-electric drive mode, allowing even the world's largest mining operations to suddenly zero-out emissions from excavation vehicles. The PC9000-12 is the largest…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (927+ words) The Quapaw Nation of Oklahoma has brought one of the most contaminated areas in America back into agricultural production, and is now ranching cattle and growing wheat and corn. Taking over the remediation efforts in 2013 which began 20 years earlier, the…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (409+ words) Last week, GNN reported that fungi were being trailed by scientists in Austria for their potential to extract valuable metals from electronic and industrial wastes. Now from the ISS comes a very similar story where, rather than "mushroom mining," scientists…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago  (694+ words) Decades of underinvestment in mining and refining across Europe and North America has landed the manufacturing sector in a problem, which a group of scientists believe can be helped by mushrooms rather than excavators. One must have been living under…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (503+ words) Below the soil of a mining concession in Utah, a recent drill survey has discovered what might be North America's largest-known deposit of so-called "critical minerals." Turning up evidence of elements like gallium, lithium, tungsten, and vanadium, the land is…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (554+ words) A startup in the UK is recovering important manufacturing metals without energy-hungry smelting methods. Using an intense solvent at room temperature, shredded circuit boards can have plastic retaining components left behind, while metals like gold, cobalt, and copper are selectively…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (406+ words) In a "unique in the world" event, a Swedish town is moving its entire historic church, all 672 tons of materials, down the road to a new address. The move is necessary to protect it from falling into a sinkhole, the…...