MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump‘s administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration imposed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in ...
Long before he was elected, President Donald Trump promised to reinvigorate mining in northeast Minnesota. Since January, his administration has taken many actions to clear the way for new hardrock ...
Mining isn’t known for innovation. For more than a century, we’ve extracted copper using the same process: dig, crush, grind, leach, repeat. Meanwhile, demand has exploded, fueled by EVs, AI ...
From a viewpoint at about 6,190 feet above sea level, a giant hole in the Oquirrh Mountains stretches two and a half miles wide and ¾ of a mile deep. Trucks with tires bigger than a sedan look like ...
The infrastructure supports safer, smarter tailings dam electrification and automation at Boliden’s Aitik copper mine.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Apaches who are fighting to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they hold sacred.The justices left in place lower ...
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. – The United States has a copper problem. Simply put, the U.S. uses a lot of it and there aren’t enough American mines to pull it out of the ground fast enough. But Ivanhoe Electric ...
Nearly 6,000 acres of old Arizona farmland once intended for a residential subdivision is on track to potentially become home to the first big new U.S. copper mine in more than a decade. If all goes ...