An Alaska Native corporation leased mineral rights inside a national park to Contango Ore Inc. The company’s plans are ...

COOK INLET, Alaska—High in a mountain valley on the far west side of this tidal inlet sits an unusual plot of land. It’s a private parcel, with a gravel airstrip and four or five buildings that make ...

An Alaska Native corporation leased mineral rights inside a national park to Contango Ore Inc., which may develop a gold mine.

Developers’ efforts to overturn the cancellation of a vast gold and copper mine planned for southwest Alaska are getting a ...

SALT LAKE CITY — With a goal of continuing decarbonization, Rio Tinto Kennecott on Thursday announced it signed a 15-year virtual power purchase agreement with TerraGen for renewable energy from a ...

Rio Tinto said it has agreed a 15-year deal with Terra-Gen to buy power for its Kennecott copper operation from a newly completed wind farm in Texas. The world's second-biggest miner by market value ...

A massive search operation continued Wednesday in West Virginia, where officials said crews were "working around the clock" and continuing "aggressive" efforts to locate a missing coal miner who ...

Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said. A mining crew hit an unknown pocket of ...

The long-planned Donlin Gold mine in Southwest Alaska is the latest Alaska project to gain the support of a federal agency seeking to streamline permitting. The Federal Permitting Improvement Steering ...

Crews desperately continued removing massive amounts of water in an effort to locate a trapped worker inside a flooded coal mine in West Virginia as the work entered a fifth day Wednesday. Gov.

In this video, we explore a mystery object sent by a fan with guesses including a landmine, a gas mask, and a 60-year-old MRE. Using a waterjet cutter with 60,000 psi of pressure, we cut it in half to ...