CARSON CITY -- Looking for a well-paying career? You might have to move to Elko or Carlin, but the average mining job in Nevada paid $78,579 in 2008. That's nearly $30,000 a year more than the average ...

Researchers assessing the impact of Ghana's Community Mining Scheme (CMS) have presented their findings to an audience of ...

Industrial-scale mining in Africa to support global supply chains is leading to unprecedented deforestation across the continent, with 34 hectares of forest removed for every single hectare of active ...

Deep-sea mining (DSM) not only poses significant environmental, social, and economic risks that may have far-reaching implications for coastal communities and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), it ...

Gholamreza Mola-Taheri said IMIDRO’s goal is not to merely add to the piles of existing theoretical research, “So by applying a new policy which we call a "demand-driven" approach, we have called on ...

By David Brown Small-scale gold mining is a major cause of deforestation in the Amazon, and researchers found that in Guyana ...

The prospect of mining asteroids may sound like science fiction, but that's exactly what the ambitious new company Planetary Resources, Inc. plans to do — and a recent study by NASA, university and ...

To meet the world’s future needs, copper prices must at least double their current levels in order to incentivize companies to build more mines, a study published in the latest issue of the SEG ...

Two British Columbia mining groups slammed a report on mine development delays as “flawed” but noted it shows the need for overhauling the province’s permitting process. The study, Does regulation ...

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