As the Ouachita National Forest moves to open new quartz mining near Jessieville, conservationists are raising concerns about ...

Rio Tinto Group has dug its last diamond and will close its final mine for the precious gemstone, marking the end of a business that lasted more than half a century. The world’s second-biggest miner ...

Global mining giant Rio Tinto has marked the last day of production at its Diavik diamond mine in the Northwest Territories. The closure has been long planned as the mine approached the end of its ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Below Cleveland, in a subterranean world many surface dwellers don’t know exists, miners extract a crucial winter mineral — salt. The Whiskey Island salt mine, owned by food ...

The U of A continues its rise among the nation’s elite institutions for student success, as physics and mathematics major John Samuel Sooter has been named the university’s first-ever Churchill ...

Washington — Amid Trump administration demands for Tehran to keep the free flow of commerce in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. officials have told CBS News that there are at least a dozen underwater mines ...

An investigation from the investigative news site Hunterbrook Media finds that the U.S. is ill-equipped to de-mine the Strait of Hormuz. Blake Spendley, head of open source at Hunterbrook Media, joins ...

About a decade after he bought a shuttered rare earths mine that was, literally, partially underwater, MP Materials CEO James Litinsky has transformed his business into a pivotal player in America's ...

It took a long time to put High Point away, but head coach John Calipari and Arkansas are making a return trip to the NCAA tournament’s Sweet 16. Arkansas, after a battle with No. 12 High Point, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

An A-10 flies near the USS Santa Barbara during an exercise in the Arabian Gulf, Feb. 2, 2026. (MCS2 Iain Page/U.S. Navy) A pair of U.S. Navy counter-mine vessels that are homeported in Bahrain ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- A dispute over a permit for a local red dirt mine has been returned to Washington County Circuit Court after the state Supreme Court overruled the initial decision denying the request.