Buried beneath the sands of Utah, a newly confirmed trove of rare earth elements and critical metals is being framed as a ...

Two iron ankle shackles, buried for about 2,200 years in the Egyptian desert, have revealed new evidence of forced labor.

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town in California tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mish-mash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes ...

Mineral production company Ionic says it discovered 16 different rare earth and critical minerals that will help the U.S.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KUTV) — Susan Powell's father, Chuck Cox, revealed that bones discovered in a West Desert mine earlier this month are not his daughter's. A DNA analysis revealed the bones aren't ...

Editor's note: Later information revealed the site of the mine where Erin Corwin was found to be in a different location, in a nearby, unmapped gold mine. Cave team: Erin Corwin found in unmapped gold ...

RIDGECREST, Calif.— Responding to environmental groups’ request for review, the California director of the Bureau of Land Management has overturned the agency’s approval for plans to develop the ...

Unprecedented heavy rains which recently lashed Kuwait unearthed dozens of land mines planted by Iraqi troops during their 1990-91 occupation, disrupting the emirate's popular desert camping season, ...

Codelco, the world’s biggest copper-mining company, resumed operations in northern Chile after halting work at some mines as a precaution against heavy rain. Mining restarted at the Chuquicamata mine ...