Palm Beach County’s seven commissioners may decide Thursday whether to approve a massive rock mining project in the Everglades Agricultural Area, south of Lake Okeechobee. This complex venture was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Environmental groups are taking legal action in an attempt to halt the progression of a Palm Beach County rock mining project in ...

Hard-rock mining may no longer sustain Gilpin County, but some people in Central City and Black Hawk refuse to let the glory of their heritage pass away. Lew Cady, a Central City resident and amateur ...

Palm Beach County’s commissioners on Thursday night voted 6-0 to approve a controversial rock mining project in the Everglades Agricultural Area, south of Lake Okeechobee. Known as The Southland Water ...

The fields of rock mechanics and coal mining engineering are at the confluence of geotechnical science and advanced engineering practice. The multidisciplinary research combines laboratory experiments ...

The Palm Beach County Commission on May 22 unanimously approved a 34-year sugar rock mining operation in the Everglades, despite opposition from Treasure Coast environmentalists concerned about the ...

The Everglades Law Center filed a legal challenge over the Big Sugar rock mine. The environmental nonprofit filed suit on behalf of the Tropical Audubon Society. They hope to stop DEP from permitting ...

Anglers, guides, and conservationists are up in arms over a fast-moving plan that would bring a roughly 8,600-acre open-pit mine to the northern reaches of the Florida Everglades. If granted ...

Mere hours before he banged his gavel to adjourn this year’s session of the Alaska House of Representatives, Speaker Bryce Edgmon, I-Dillingham, introduced a bill to bar metals mining from the Bristol ...