Some 150 years after the gold rush, miners are back in the New Zealand town of Reefton, betting the gold-laden “reefs” of ...

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Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China's stranglehold on the market?

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But there's another sound cutting through the trees of the Zambian bush - the unmistakable high-pitched whine of a bitcoin ...

Cleveland-Cliffs is temporarily laying off 630 workers as it idles two mines that supply iron ore to its steel mills in ...

Equinox Gold Corp. and Calibre Mining Corp. have agreed to merge in an all-shares transaction that combines Calibre’s mines in Nicaragua, the Pan Mine in Nevada, and the Valentine Gold Mine in C ...

Christmas Island is a spectacular oceanic island that rises abruptly from the tropical waters of the eastern Indian Ocean. Its landscape is mostly covered with tropical rainforest and rugged limestone ...

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Credit: Jose Luis Stephens/Shutterstock. Generation Mining has secured the final construction permit from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) for its 100%-owned Marathon copper-palladium ...

The island of Ocracoke in North Carolina is known for its distinct "Hoi Toider" brogue (Credit: Alamy) Native Americans, English sailors and pirates all came together on Ocracoke Island in North ...