What if the materials holding up advanced manufacturing were already sitting in landfills, ash ponds, scrapyards, and old ...

Scientists have discovered Amazonian bacteria capable of combating mercury contamination in areas affected by toxic mining.

Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville—a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the Arkansas River basin more ...

The mining industry is exploring alternative methods like recycling and re-mining waste tailings to secure essential metals for the energy transition due to challenges in traditional mining ...

Around noon one day in January 2019, a dam containing waste from a Brazilian iron mine collapsed, releasing 3.4 million tons of sludge. The cascade killed 272 people and flattened houses and buildings ...

Contractors with the Environmental Protection Agency will being work this summer on a repository north of Silverton to permanently store waste removed from mines within the Bonita Peak Mining District ...

A special type of bacteria can "eat" a nail in just three days, says a biotechnologist from Chile. Nadac Reales, who studies the microorganisms from her lab in the industrial town of Antofagasta, ...

Researchers have developed a new mining technique which uses microbes to recover metals and store carbon in the waste produced by mining. Adopting this technique of reusing mining waste, called ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Acid mine drainage (AMD), a toxic byproduct of mining, is notorious for contaminating rivers and groundwater with high concentrations ...

The Bush administration tweaked Clean Water Act regulations to reclassify mining waste as “fill.” Now, that revised definition has been applied to metals mining for the first time — allowing a gold ...

We’re all familiar with the “energy waste” and “carbon emissions” narratives around Bitcoin mining. “It wastes energy!” “It’s a carbon emitter!” Obviously, Bitcoin is a unique and terrible attack on ...