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Mining

An aerial view of the Pinyon Plain Mine operating within the Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument on Aug. 27, 2024, in Arizona. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Trump Names More Priority Minerals for U.S. Mining Revival

By Dylan Baddour

Western States Brace for a Uranium Boom as the Nation Looks to Recharge its Nuclear Power Industry

By Jake Bolster, Dylan Baddour, Wyatt Myskow

Coal and coke waste is seen piled high at an industrial site in Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In a ‘Disheartening’ Era, the Nation’s Former Top Mining Regulator Speaks Out

By Lee Hedgepeth

An employee with EnergyX, an Austin-based lithium startup, works in the company’s laboratory on Oct. 7. Credit: Sergio Flores/The Texas Tribune

A New Generation of Industries Emerges in Texas From Federal Push for Mining Revival

By Dylan Baddour

A landscape in Zambia 12 weeks after a Chinese copper mine spilled toxic waste laced with heavy metals, including lead, arsenic and uranium. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

Chinese Mining Firm Downplays Toxic Waste Spill as Residents Reel From Impacts

By Katie Surma

The Dark Star Mine Pit of the proposed South Railroad Mine, if approved and built, would be dug into this area. Credit: Great Basin Resource Watch

One of the First to Benefit From Trump’s Cuts to Environmental Review: a Nevada Gold Mine

By Wyatt Myskow

Near Moku, Haut-Uélé province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an Indigenous Mbuti woman points to a flooded, abandoned mine where her young relative drowned. Credit: Courtesy of PAX

Chinese Miners Accused of Gold Pillage, Environmental Destruction in DRC

By Katie Surma

People gather for a protest against the disappearance of Mapuche leader and environmental defender Julia Chuñil in front of La Moneda Palace on April 8 in Santiago, Chile. Credit: Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu via Getty Images

An Average Week in 2024: Three Environmental Defenders Murdered or Disappeared

By Katie Surma

A landscape in Zambia 12 weeks after Sino-Metals spilled toxic waste laced with heavy metals including lead, arsenic and uranium. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

Zambia Ordered a Mining Company to Pay Villagers After a Toxic Waste Spill. The Firm Made Them Sign Away Their Rights First

By Katie Surma

Jingjing Zhang meets with community members in Kalusale, Zambia. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable

By Katie Surma

A view of an industrial harbor off the shores of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minn. Credit: Michael Siluk/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Water Management in Great Lakes States Deserves a Closer Look, Group Says

By Susan Cosier

Resolution Copper’s proposed mine near the site of Oak Flat in Arizona will eventually create a giant sinkhole on land sacred to the Western Apache people. Credit: Elias Butler

Court Temporarily Halts Land Transfer That Would Allow a Mine to Destroy Western Apache Sacred Land

By Wyatt Myskow

An aerial view of the former Woodhouse Colliery site and the location of West Cumbria Mining’s proposed coal project in Whitehaven, England. Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Coal Company Sues UK After Environmentalists Win Major Climate Case in British Court

By Katie Surma

John Nordstrom stands before a rock dam he built on his property in Patagonia, Ariz., on July 9. Rock dams slows the speed of water, allowing it to better recharge the aquifer underground. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

As a Critical Minerals Mine Nears Approval in Arizona, Residents Fear It’s Already Affecting Area Water

By Wyatt Myskow

Outside the town of Mammoth, Ariz., is the site of a mesquite forest owned by the mining company Resolution Copper. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Copper Mines Close in on Western Apache Sacred Site, and the Forest Protected to Mitigate The Damage

By Wyatt Myskow

Energy Secretary Chris Wright speaks at the ribbon cutting ceremony for Ramaco Resources’ Brook Mine in Wyoming on July 11. Credit: U.S. Department of Energy

Republican Excitement for Wyoming Rare Earth Mining Contradicts the Party’s Disdain for Renewables

By Jake Bolster

Minaçu was shaped around the asbestos mine and it is hoped a new license to explore rare earth minerals could regenerate the area. Credit: José Cícero / Agência Pública

Brazil’s Last Asbestos Miners Are Switching To Rare Earth Minerals. Can They Offer a Brighter Future?

By Isabel Seta, Agência Pública and the Guardian

An aerial view of a surface coal mine in the Powder River Basin. Credit: Bureau of Land Management Wyoming

Trump Move to Increase Coal Mining in the Powder River Basin Will Worsen Climate Change, Experts Warn

By Jake Bolster

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