For more than three decades, one of Brazil’s largest open-pit gold mines has remained frozen in time, its vast terraced crater still visible like a geological monument to a vanished era. The mine once ...

KSM is the world’s largest undeveloped gold project by resources. Credit: Seabridge Gold. Gold mining companies have been grabbing headlines this year over a flurry of merger an ...

In 2006, scientists descended upon a remote open-pit mine in Australia to study air that turns into rock. Like many mines, after churning through rock to get at a mineral, the Mount Keith nickel mine ...

Alannah Acaq Hurley, executive director of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay, has been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for organizing opposition to what would have been the largest open-pit ...

Ecuador has signed an agreement with Chinese mining giant CMOC Group Limited to develop starting before 2027 the Cangrejos project for a $1.7 billion.