In 2023, tensions escalated in Las Naves, Ecuador, where farmers clashed with police during protests against a new environmental consultation process and the upcoming launch of a large-scale open-pit ...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine environment minister said on Wednesday that a ban on new open pit mining in the country would remain in place, with President Rodrigo Duterte rejecting government ...

A strip ratio, or stripping ratio, is an important measurement related to the open-pit mining process. Put simply, the stripping ratio is the amount of waste material, also known as overburden, that ...

A pair of gold exploration and development companies, working the ground west of Thunder Bay, have plans and visions for two large open-pit mines. Vancouver-based Gold X2 Mining (formerly Goldshore ...

A gold rush brought settlers to South Dakota's Black Hills roughly 150 years ago, chasing the dream of wealth and displacing Native Americans in the process. Now, a new crop of miners driven by gold ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Evidence abounds across Montana of the ruinous environmental legacy of cyanide-based open-pit ...