First, market prices spike, and mines resume operation. Then prices tank, and mines shut down. Meanwhile, uranium’s legacy has left thousands of abandoned mines in need of cleanup, while others hang ...

To pay for the mine reclamation, the state Department of Environmental Protection announced in September 2023 that it would award Mayfield $14.97 million through its Abandoned Mine Lands and Acid ...

Barrick Gold Corp. and Mali are set to resume talks on resolving a monthslong dispute over the distribution of revenue from one of the world’s biggest gold mines. Negotiations between ...

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for U.S. users once official government sources are updated to reflect the name change ordered by ...

Plenty of gems throughout the Silver State await those who are willing to wander outside of the Las Vegas Valley. In a list released this month, the Nevada Division of Tourism, also known as ...

New homes in Blue Sky, a subdivision built on a former coal strip mine in Hazard, Ky. As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of ...

Uranium prices have been falling for nearly a year now. Demand for nuclear energy to power AI data centers was supposed to drive uranium prices -- and stocks -- higher. China just announced a new ...

In 2022, the Julian Benson Foundation bought an abandoned Victorian redbrick in the south Dublin suburb of Rathgar. As founder of JBF, it was Julian’s dream to build a space that could cater for ...

A miner is carried on a stretcher after being rescued from a disused gold mine shaft in Stilfontein Last week rescuers retrieved 78 bodies and 246 survivors from abandoned shafts of one of the ...

The government of South Africa launched a rescue operation to extract the illegal workers at the abandoned Stilfontein mine - Getty Images ...

We have been abandoned.” The US resettled more than 180,000 Afghans following its withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, but thousands remain in limbo, awaiting decisions on their ...

New Jersey has nearly 600 abandoned mines, according to state officials. (See an interactive map of abandoned mine locations below.) “They’re everywhere,” said Timothy Rack, safety and ...