BOVEY — A permanent fix to control rising water levels in an old Iron Range mine pit is on the way. As part of this year’s bonding bill, the Minnesota Legislature approved $8.875 million for the ...

Once a mining pit, a long-unused quarry in Orange is on track to become a nature preserve, the city of Orange announced Thursday. Owners of the 14-acre Chandler sand and gravel basin on Santiago ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A committee in Mexico's lower house of Congress approved two constitutional reforms that would prohibit open-pit mining and fracking, as well as restrict the use of genetically ...

GARDNERVILLE, Nev. — A botanist gently strokes the pollen of endangered wildflowers with a paintbrush as she tries to reenact nature inside a small greenhouse in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada. It’s ...

BOVEY -- It's a problem that's only getting deeper. The water level in a nearly 5-mile-long chain of abandoned mine pits on the western Iron Range continues to rise, even as the debate persists over ...