With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The Trump administration is forging ahead on its own, speeding up environmental ...

Key takeawaysBitcoin mining began in 2009 as a hobby-friendly activity where users could earn BTC using CPUs and later GPUs.

NPCA is fighting for widespread mining reform so a 19th-century law giving the mining industry first dibs on public lands stops harming the environment. I stopped pedaling my bike and coasted down the ...

Leticia Carvalho heads a global authority that’s been struggling to set rules for a decade. President Trump’s aggressive push on ocean mining makes her task more urgent.

Sangha Renewables, a bitcoin BTC $72,390.11 mining firm that aims to enable renewable energy companies to mine bitcoin, broke ground Wednesday on its flagship 19.9 megawatt (MW) solar facility in West ...

At the Berkeley Pit, researchers hope to extract valuable metals to increase U.S. production of rare earths used in electric cars, medical advances and national defense. Ongoing extraction inside the ...

STOCKHOLM--Swedish miner Boliden has put on hold its plans to invest $1.2 billion in expanding a Finnish mine, and will begin talks with employees as it prepares to adapt its operations at the site ...

Despite appearing reclaimed, the Flambeau Mine site has ongoing groundwater contamination with arsenic and manganese, and Stream C has high levels of copper. While the mining company says the site is ...