New York issued a two-year moratorium on certain crypto-mining permits that could set a precedent. Crypto miners who use sustainable energy sources could have an advantage if other states follow.

Hard-rock mining may no longer sustain Gilpin County, but some people in Central City and Black Hawk refuse to let the glory of their heritage pass away. Lew Cady, a Central City resident and amateur ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In recent years, some Hill Country residents have said that the area's beauty is being overrun by the booming rock mining industry. For six months, the KVUE Defenders – in partnership ...

Palm Beach County’s seven commissioners may decide Thursday whether to approve a massive rock mining project in the Everglades Agricultural Area, south of Lake Okeechobee. This complex venture was ...

A large dredge shovels rock out of a rockpit near Okeechobee Road and the Turnpike at one of eight many rock mining operations in Western Miami-Dade County. Tim Chapman Miami Herald Staff South ...

Mere hours before he banged his gavel to adjourn this year’s session of the Alaska House of Representatives, Speaker Bryce Edgmon, I-Dillingham, introduced a bill to bar metals mining from the Bristol ...

Thanks to some of the cheapest electricity around, the fact that their mining farm stays naturally cold, and that it is based in a former Soviet military bunker, Ice Rock Mining think they have ...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to roll back a regulation to make hard rock mining companies pay for clean up is sparking a new legal battle between Alaska and environmental groups. The ...