Scientist from Austria believe mushrooms can recover enough minerals to make a sizable impact in the world economy.

As nations posture over access to rare earth deposits, scientists say these coveted materials are hiding in plain sight – and ...

Two South Dakota Mines professors are transforming coal mine waste into a potential domestic source of rare earth elements, materials critical to advanced technology, low-carbon energy and ...

Across coal country, the same toxic sludge and rust-colored water that once symbolized the end of an industry is starting to look like the beginning of something else. Buried in coal ash ponds, mine ...

SILVERTON – What happens when you plant trees in a pile of mine waste? We’re about to find out. The U.S. Forest Service has embarked on a bit of a science experiment this summer, to see if trees, ...

Amid mounting pressure on global supply chains, TOMRA’s advanced sensor-based sorting technology is helping mining companies recover valuable resources once considered waste – extending mine life, ...

Digging up and extracting the minerals needed to make electric car batteries or wind turbines comes at an environmental cost, using huge amounts of energy and dangerous chemicals and creating toxic ...

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 ...

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 ...