Faced with a thicket of mines, tank traps, and bunkers, future U.S. Army engineers might not rush to the front. Instead, they may reach for a remote control to choose from a menu of drones and tracked ...

No government agency publishes information about the number of open-pit mines domestically or globally. Nor is there a reliable public source of information about the dollar size of the open-pit ...

Russian forces have used at least seven types of antipersonnel mines in at least four regions of Ukraine: Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Sumy. This marks an unusual situation in which a country that is ...

Sea mines are the Navy’s silent nightmare. Cheap, deadly, and incredibly effective, they’ve sunk more U.S. ships than missiles or torpedoes combined. This episode dives into the terrifying ...

NEGAUNEE, MI – Michigan’s Upper Peninsula may be primed for a major hydroelectric future because of its underground mining past. Scientists at Michigan Technological University in Houghton believe it ...

A gold mine in Idaho that once churned out critical minerals for the U.S. “Arsenal of Democracy” during WWII has been ...

As Ukrainian forces slowly push ahead with their 2023 counteroffensive after more than a year of shifting battle lines, the country’s military and civilians face a deadly problem: land mines, ...

Brine deposits, located primarily in South America, utilize a fairly hands-off approach to extract their lithium, relying mostly upon the sun and pressure. They have the lowest operating costs. Hard ...

Researchers say it’s time to write a new chapter in mining history — a story that honors heritage, mitigates hazards and creates stable power grids that benefit host communities. Pumped hydroelectric ...

Update: Human Rights Watch welcomes Ukraine’s commitment to duly study the below report on antipersonnel landmines, as announced in a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on January 31. We ...

KYIV — A human rights group says it has documented "numerous cases" of Ukrainian forces firing land mines into territory that was controlled at the time by Russia. In a new report, Human Rights Watch ...