Mining waste dumped on beaches in the 20th Century continues to pose an environmental risk, a study suggests. Prof Ian Burke ...

The mining industry is exploring alternative methods like recycling and re-mining waste tailings to secure essential metals for the energy transition due to challenges in traditional mining ...

Contractors with the Environmental Protection Agency will being work this summer on a repository north of Silverton to permanently store waste removed from mines within the Bonita Peak Mining District ...

Pollution and waste, climate change and biodiversity loss are creating a triple planetary crisis. In response, UN Environment Program executive director Inger Andersen has called for waste to be ...

Around noon one day in January 2019, a dam containing waste from a Brazilian iron mine collapsed, releasing 3.4 million tons of sludge. The cascade killed 272 people and flattened houses and buildings ...

They point out that increasing mining would mean more damage to the environment, and produce much more waste. Globally, mining produces over 100 billion tons of solid waste annually. This waste is ...

Researchers have developed a new mining technique which uses microbes to recover metals and store carbon in the waste produced by mining. Adopting this technique of reusing mining waste, called ...

OCEANAGOLD (Philippines) Inc. (OGP) said Wednesday that it was teaming up with Holcim Group’s waste management arm, Geocycle Philippines, to co-process residual waste from the Didipio mine.

India generates up to 250 million tonnes of mining waste every year. But what was once seen as a disposal problem could now ...

The Bush administration tweaked Clean Water Act regulations to reclassify mining waste as “fill.” Now, that revised definition has been applied to metals mining for the first time — allowing a gold ...

This episode of Energy Technology explores how advances in microbiology, growing demand for critical minerals and the search for lower-emission processing routes are bringing bioleaching back into ...