MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed a decision by a state agency to grant a major permit for the proposed NewRange copper-nickel mine, saying regulators adequately ...

JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has suspended nickel mining in the Raja Ampat archipelago, citing multiple environmental violations by companies operating in the ecologically sensitive islands.

WASHINGTON — An effort to jumpstart copper-nickel mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has died in Congress. A provision that would pave the way for mining in the Superior National ...

JAKARTA, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Indonesia's mining quota distribution has been delayed having reverted to an older approval process due to an ongoing investigation into illegal mining, a senior official ...

Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday that there should be a higher bar for approving copper-nickel mines near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness compared with other areas and cast doubt on whether ...

Early in the morning last Christmas Eve, Chinese and Indonesian workers prepared for a maintenance operation at the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park. A complex of factories, smelters and power ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists carrying out the largest study of its kind say.