Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park near Ely is one of those magnificent secrets that makes you wonder how something so ...

Daria Saburova looks at how volunteer labor has become a site of gender and class tensions, and the specific features of ...

I was especially interested in understanding the specific nature of working-class volunteerism, a topic that is rarely discussed. ” ...

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a time when carmakers want the metal for electric-vehicle batteries, nickel ...

San Manuel Mine was once the world’s largest underground copper mining operation in size of ore body, production capacity and infrastructure. It is located in the Old Hat mining district on the east ...

Mining activity in the Santa Rita Mountains has existed for several hundred years, beginning with the Spanish in the 18th century at the silver and gold mines of Salero and Alto. Located 28 miles ...

A long-running battle for control of the Browns Range rare earth deposit in Australia is heating up with a Chinese citizen fined for breaching Australian takeover law ...

A joint investigation by The Associated Press and The Gecko Project has found that cyanide, arsenic and copper repeatedly ...

Chart: The Economist Brazil holds nearly a quarter of the world’s known deposits of rare earths, second only to China (see chart). Besides prime geology, the country boasts a sturdy extractive ...

South Korea's consumer inflation eased to a five-month low in January, largely in line with market expectations, government data showed on Tuesday. Indian Oil, Vitol venture talks hit snag over some ...