Deep sea mining could provide minerals essential for making electric vehicles. But regulations are incomplete, and questions persist about the impact on the ocean's ability to store carbon dioxide.

As a result, dozers frequently produce oversized siderite boulders that cause blockages in the crusher. This is not the case when mining with a surface miner. In addition, ...

Modern gold mining involves excavating a series of geologic veins that are rich in gold. Then the rocks are pulled to the surface to be ground into dust. Large boulders can result in just a few ...

A 2008 photo of a mountaintop removal mining site at Kayford Mountain, W.Va. with Coal River Mountain, left, in the background. (Jeff Gentner, File / AP Photo) By Frank James The controversial ...

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 ...

Surface deposits aren’t always in convenient places, but that didn’t stop investors in the 1880s from filing placer claims in Central Gulch, north of Golden Age Hill, on the ridge that ...

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 ...

To reach diamonds at the bottom of kimberlite pipes rocks are blasted and pit-mining begins. Pit-mining is the most common way to recover diamonds.