There are many companies developing plans for seabed mining, arguing that picking up these rocks is a better way of feeding the decarbonization beast than scarring the surface any further. But ...

The first commercial effort to exploit these riches failed a century later. In 1970, a U.S. company hoisted 60,000 rocks from the seafloor off the coast of Charleston, S.C., and then dumped most ...

Incessant rain under the influence of a low-pressure system has triggered a major landslide in the Koida mining region of ...

A defunct mine tapped into a coal seam, or underground strip of coal, that snakes through that stretch of Boulder. Active mining hasn’t occurred in the area for decades, according to Graves, but ...

There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.