Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan ...

A miner in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan poured water over a block of jade, exposing the green stone that is part of ...

Australia sits on bulging deposits of coal, gas, metals and minerals, with mining and fossil fuels stoking decades of ...

Two Floyd County man were arrested after leading police on a chase on a snow-covered road, which ended with the discovery of ...

Holding the exhibition in Pikeville as a way to raise money after ... But pressed for time after coming out of the mine, McGuire went directly to the Blue-White contest, coal soot still covering his ...

It’s a move critics say means the province has declared open season on renewed coal mining. In a letter to the Alberta Energy Regulator posted to its website Monday, Energy Minister Brian Jean ...

A member of Alberta’s coal policy committee says the provincial government is ignoring the will of tens of thousands of Albertans as it develops new rules around mining and is instead leaning on ...

Coal prices are expected to ease in 2025, according to Joseph Clarke and Alex Thackrah of Argus Media, a energy and commodity price benchmarks provider, who shared their insights in the paper ...

A December report by the Minerals Council SA shows coal mining input costs rising at just 2.7% in November 2024 compared with the same month in 2023. This was below other commodity producers such ...

South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft ...