Using idle open-cast coal mines for pumped hydropower storage of solar power is financially feasible, new research from India is suggesting. In the study ...

Scientists have described a new species of flower that appears to only grow in a small forest patch on the slopes of a mountain range in Guinea, West Africa, where extensive open-cast mining for iron ...

Uranium mining operations have started at the McClean Lake project in Saskatchewan, Canada, using the Surface Access Borehole Resource Extraction mining method, joint venture partners Orano Canada and ...