All the headlines from our Mining Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 10 2021 // Construction of a coal mine that threatened UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s claim to be a world leader in the fight against climate change is under review after growing opposition.The Woodhouse Colliery would be...
Feb 5 2021 // MOSCOW – Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel was fined $2 billion on Friday for the damage caused by a huge fuel spill last year in the country’s worst environmental disaster in the Arctic.The leakage in May of...
Feb 4 2021 // Vale SA reached a settlement agreement with Brazilian authorities for a dam collapse that killed 270 people and led to production cutbacks that stripped the company of the title of world’s biggest iron ore...
Feb 1 2021 // Cargill is permanently halting operations at a Louisiana salt mine where a roof collapse in mid-December killed two workers, the company announced, and will close the site by 2024.According to a statement issued by the...
Jan 28 2021 // Companies looking to mine copper, gold and silver in Wisconsin will face dramatically higher costs and have to work around an extensive list of off-limit areas under new rules the state Department of Natural Resources...
Jan 25 2021 // A safety director at a Kentucky coal mine has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of rigging dust monitoring in underground mines.Steve DeMoss pleaded guilty earlier this month in federal court in Owensboro. He was one of...
Jan 25 2021 // Brazilian miner Vale SA and state authorities narrowed their gap in a potential settlement deal over the Brumadinho mining disaster to 11 billion reais ($2 billion) before talks fell apart, a person close to the...
Jan 25 2021 // The Navajo Nation’s Department of Justice announced in mid-January it settled with mining companies to resolve claims stemming from a 2015 spill that resulted in rivers in three states being fouled with a plume of...
Jan 15 2021 // The Navajo Nation’s Department of Justice announced Wednesday it has settled with mining companies to resolve claims stemming from a 2015 spill that resulted in rivers in three western states being fouled with a...
Jan 15 2021 // Five miners died in U.S. coal mines in 2020, an all-time low mark for an industry in a year that saw continuing declines in production as electric providers move away from burning coal.The federal Mine Safety and Health...
Jan 6 2021 // The company behind a proposed copper and gold mine in Alaska faces lawsuits from investors claiming it misled shareholders who have seen an 85% drop in stock value since the summer.Two lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court...
Dec 17 2020 // Two people died when the ceiling in a salt mine fell in Louisiana, authorities and the mine operator said.A portion of the ceiling in a part of the underground mine on Avery Island came down on Dec. 14. Sixteen employees...
Dec 4 2020 // The inspector general for the U.S. Department of Labor is urging the government’s mine safety agency to tighten restrictions on a dangerous substance that is inhaled by coal miners.A report from the inspector...
Nov 25 2020 // A coal miner died Monday in a workplace accident in southern West Virginia, the governor’s office said.Taylor Meldin Halstead, 20, of Bob White, was killed in the accident at Panther Mining LLC’s American Eagle...
Nov 17 2020 // A South Carolina county is considering relaxing its mining regulations.The Sun News in Myrtle Beach reports Horry County Council could enact zoning ordinances that would make it easier to dig mines near homes and wetlands...
Nov 9 2020 // A 5.0 billion pound ($6.6 billion) English lawsuit against Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP has been struck out, in a blow to a 200,000-strong Brazilian claimant group seeking damages after a devastating dam failure in...
Nov 5 2020 // Authorities on Wednesday were investigating after a man died in a central Pennsylvania coal mine.Daniel Shoener, 37, of Donaldson, was struck by a rock about 1,000 feet below the surface in Williamstown Mine on Tuesday...
Oct 29 2020 // Mining applicants would have to pay more for permits and licenses, supply more detailed plans to state regulators, and work around a new list of areas deemed off-limits under regulations the Wisconsin Department of Natural...
Oct 26 2020 // Brazilian federal prosecutors have accused mining giants BHP and Vale of colluding with a lawyer to reduce compensation for victims of a fatal dam collapse and interfere with a landmark lawsuit against BHP in the UK.A...
Oct 16 2020 // A coal miner working underground in western Kentucky died after being struck by a coal scoop.It was the second coal mining death in Kentucky in less than a week and the fourth overall in the U.S. this year. Phillip Ramsey,...