Watch a massive mining dump truck transport oversized rock loads across an active open pit mining site. Built for demanding ...

The Super Pit, in Kalgoorlie, is the largest open-pit gold mine in Australia, and one of the largest in the world. A canyon-size hole dug by house-size machines, it's large enough to be visible from ...

Watch an ultra large hydraulic excavator perform powerful rock excavation in an open pit quarry. Built for demanding mining ...

In a move that has sparked debate over economic potential and environmental risks, President Rodrigo Chaves announced Wednesday that his government plans to re-legalize open-pit mining. The practice, ...

A plan to extract coal through open-pit mining in Phulbari and the northern part of Barapukuria coal mine area is being revived by the government, despite strong opposition by locals and ...

At more than 1,100 metres deep, Chuquicamata is still the world’s largest open-pit copper mine. (Image courtesy of Codelco.) Chile’s Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, has extended mining ...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, present ed before parliament a series of constitutional reforms among which there is a proposal to modify Article 27 so that it prohibits ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Located in the southern Philippine province of South Cotabato, the Tampakan project is touted as the largest undeveloped copper-gold minefield in ...

The government of Honduras is no longer granting environmental permits for open-pit mining projects due to the deforestation and pollution they cause. Honduras has a poor human rights track record ...