Scientists have discovered Amazonian bacteria capable of combating mercury contamination in areas affected by toxic mining.

LEADVILLE, Colo. — Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville — a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the ...

Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville—a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the Arkansas River basin more ...

SILVERTON – What happens when you plant trees in a pile of mine waste? We’re about to find out. The U.S. Forest Service has embarked on a bit of a science experiment this summer, to see if trees, ...

The mining industry is exploring alternative methods like recycling and re-mining waste tailings to secure essential metals for the energy transition due to challenges in traditional mining ...

Digging up and extracting the minerals needed to make electric car batteries or wind turbines comes at an environmental cost, using huge amounts of energy and dangerous chemicals and creating toxic ...

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Contractors with the Environmental Protection Agency will being work this summer on a repository north of Silverton to permanently store waste removed from mines within the Bonita Peak Mining District ...

Beijing is betting that coal ash and mining waste could help secure future supplies of critical minerals.

A special type of bacteria can "eat" a nail in just three days, says a biotechnologist from Chile. Nadac Reales, who studies the microorganisms from her lab in the industrial town of Antofagasta, ...

Papyrus Australia is converting discarded banana plantation fibre into biodegradable blast collars for open-cut mining.