In a significant move toward sustainable mining, Hitachi Construction Machinery successfully demonstrated its full ...

Automation in heavy industries like mining is a great way to improve safety and efficiency, so it's often in spaces like these that we see early versions of technology that may someday make it into ...

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) - One man’s trash is another man’s gold. Case in point: Owen Voight and Paul Antonioli, independent miners who scratch less-than-meatball-sized amounts of gold out of piles of dirt ...

Residents concerned with groundwater contamination from waste disposed by King II coal mine have prompted state officials to test for potentially volatile compounds such as lead and mercury. Since ...

ST. PAUL — Just one of the giant diesel-fueled dump trucks in Minnesota’s iron ore mines emits 2,400 tons of carbon dioxide per year, the equivalent of 520 gasoline passenger vehicles. But a ...

Russian mining major Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) is considering re-equipping its dump trucks for dual-fuel operation, using liquefied natural gas (LNG) in a move that will not only reduce environmental ...