As a Critical Minerals Mine Nears Approval in Arizona, Residents Fear It’s Already Affecting Area Water South32’s Hermosa mine would be the first approved under a new, fast-tracked process.

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not ...

A U.S. district judge in Arizona has precluded the U.S. Forest Service from proceeding with the land exchange for the huge Oak Flat copper mine project until 60 days after ...

An appeal from Apaches who want to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they hold sacred has been rejected by the Supreme Court.

We took kayaks into an underground mine - and it was one of the most surreal adventures we've ever had. Paddling through flooded tunnels, echoing chambers, and pitch-black passages, we explored a ...

Ivanhoe Electric aims to open the first new U.S. copper mine in over a decade in Casa Grande, Arizona, near Phoenix, addressing America's copper shortage.

The U.S. Interior Department is taking steps to recover above-ground critical minerals from existing and abandoned mine waste to bolster domestic supplies.

A federal judge will hear arguments in a case over a disputed land exchange that would allow construction of a huge copper mine.

With only weeks until a disputed land swap opens the door to a huge copper mine at Oak Flat, opponents seek a late reprieve.

The Western Apache are trying to defend sacred site of Oak Flat (Chi’chil Bildagoteel) in Arizona, which is set to become a copper mine.

The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday took steps to increase recovery of critical minerals, used in everything from electric vehicles to high-tech weapons, from mine waste, coal refuse ...

Michigan's UP mines offer chance to put on a hard hat and head underground to explore mining history.