Opp Mine Opponents Voice Their Concerns
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By Sanne Specht, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.  Mar. 1--Opponents of the Opp Mine painted a picture of environmental  pollution, property destruction and community demise for Jackson County  commissioners on Wednesday.    More than 75 people attended the three-hour public hearing.
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Reporters there say they face a growing threat from feuding political factions.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- The Bush administration's aggressive drive to promote oil and gas drilling on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains has sparked growing anger here among traditional Republican constituents who say that the stepped-up push for energy development is sullying some of the...
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As Swiss-based miner Xstrata pushes ahead with its A$7.4bn (US$5.8bn) hostile takeover bid for WMC Resources, debate over the deal has narrowed to one key issue - the potential of the Australian miner&#39;s giant Olympic Dam project.
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Pressured by a ranking senator from Nevada and the Environmental Protection Agency, Gov. Kenny Guinn says he might reconsider his opposition to a federal Superfund cleanup declaration for a huge abandoned mine contaminated with toxic waste and uranium.
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The planned purchase of Canadian mining giant Noranda by a state-owned Chinese corporation is facing growing opposition in Canada with even lawmakers of the governing Liberal Party calling on the government to block the takeover.
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By Daniel Witter, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Mar. 2--Marysville officials reiterated their concerns Thursday about how the Yuba Highlands project could impact the city.
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South African gold miners continue a war of the words.
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By Wade Rawlins, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 15--AURORA -- A massive Beaufort County strip-mining operation wants to expand its extraction of phosphate ore in one of the state's most environmentally fragile areas.
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Scottish Coal calls for UK and Scottish government to back their plans to restart deep mining.
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Victims and unions have emerged as key stakeholders in the fight to ensure James Hardie Industries meets its asbestos compensation responsibilities after the NSW government tied them to the company&#39;s economic future.
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The South African mining company Lonmin is one of many whose results are suffering from what one broker charming calls &quot;dollar mange&quot;.
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By Amy Choate-Nielsen Deseret Morning News  PROVO -- Utah County officials may allow a gravel-pit company to keep digging in an area that isn't zoned for industrial use -- but not if the neighbors can help it.
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By Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 7--Pima County is taking the State Land Department to court in an attempt to overturn a decision allowing mining in Davidson Canyon.
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HUANUNI, Bolivia  - Rival groups of Bolivian miners battled with dynamite on Friday while officials worked to reimpose a truce and sent in hundreds of police to quell the deadly fighting at one of the world's largest tin mines.
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ELEANOR HALL: Talks aimed at finding a long term solution for James Hardie&#39;s asbestos victims are set to restart today. But there seems to be little hope that the sides will find agreement soon on meeting
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By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 4--SOLDOTNA -- Backers of a proposed Kenai River gillnet fishery for Ninilchik residents ran into a thick web of opposition this weekend during the first meetings of a consensus-building group of fishermen.