A dormant Utah copper mine has reopened as the world’s first autonomous mining operation, using AI and robotics supplement a human labor shortage.

Utah has reduced royalty rates for two foreign companies who want to mine lithium and uranium from the state’s water and land. The Board of Trustees for the Utah Trust Lands Administration unanimously ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A new report by the Utah Geological Survey details the value and the diversity of the state's mining industry — which was responsible for close to $10 billion last year. The industry ...

A 2007 Utah disaster killed nine people, including six miners entombed in the mountain. A young lawyer, Sonny Olsen, was ...

SALT LAKE CITY — In the southeastern Utah desert famous for red rock arches and canyon labyrinths, the long-dormant uranium mining industry is looking to revive under President Donald Trump. Hundreds ...

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SALT LAKE CITYSALT LAKE CITY — Environmentalists filed a lawsuit on Monday to prevent the construction of a new potash mine that they say would devastate a lake ecosystem in the drought-stricken ...

Environmentalists filed a lawsuit on Monday to prevent the construction of a new potash mine that they say would devastate a lake ecosystem in the drought-stricken western Utah desert. The complaint ...

People in a drought-stricken valley worry an expanding copper mine and other mineral projects could sap or contaminate their water. SAN JUAN COUNTY, Utah — President Donald Trump’s push for a ...

In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, can’t find enough people to fill the estimated 350 jobs needed to staff it. “The workforce is just not ...