In an early scene from the Oscar-winning “Harlan County U.S.A.,” a piece of technology is shown swallowing coal miners by the dozen. One after the other, we see helmeted workers merge their prone ...

Becky Rom of Ely, the national chair of the nonprofit Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, insinuated in a column in the News Tribune on May 22 that Congressman Pete Stauber and former President ...

The town of Tonopah, Nev., was born out of a silver rush, when more than 10,000 people moved in during the early 1900s, racing to make money from a prized natural resource. It didn't last. Today, ...

Coal production and mining jobs over the past half-century have been influenced by several factors, principally demand from the utility sector, technological breakthroughs in natural gas production, ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — New mining trends as well as the latest technologies took center stage at a statewide convention Tuesday in downtown Charleston. Officials from across the region and beyond, along ...

As a major proponent of global warming, Donald Trump apparently thinks it benefits him to be perceived as a savior of jobs in the coal industry. This is likely not because he can do much to protect ...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Ariz. (KGUN) — A new workforce training program in Nogales is aiming to prepare local residents for hundreds of jobs expected to open in the coming years at the Hermosa mine. On ...

In the next decade, the mining industry may lose more than half of its jobs to automation, according to a new report. That’s not based on future technologies, but on automated equipment being deployed ...

The mining industry continues to play a critical role in the Central West economy, with new figures showing the sector delivered more than $1 billion in direct spending across the region in the past ...

Anthony Milewski is the founder of The Oregon Group and an influential figure in the mining, metals and energy industries. The mining industry has traditionally relied on conventional marketing ...