A town hall meeting has been scheduled to discuss a large-scale project planned at a former mining site in Mercer County. The Busted ATV Resort Inc. is preparing an application for an Abandoned Mine ...

In 1977 the first (and only to date) mining-specific environmental law was enacted, the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA), although this applies only to coal mines.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A conservation group said Friday it has reached a $60 million deal to buy land outside the Okefenokee Swamp from a mining company that environmentalists spent years battling ...

The Mining Committee Report for The Year in Review 2024. Summarizes significant legal developments in 2024 in the area of mining, including the Energy Permitting Reform Act, Tribes, and more. In a 260 ...

Titan Mining has announced that the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) has approved $15.8m in financing for its wholly owned subsidiary, Empire State Mines (ESM). This funding is ...

What You Need To Know Newsom said in his complaint that “violation of the Posse Comitatus Act is imminent, if not already underway” but Breyer last week postponed considering that allegation The ...

At the newly-discovered blind Winchester breccia, intersected 45.64 metres ("m") at 0.71% copper from 166.25 m, within 110.80 m at 0.40% copper from 148.74 m in drill hole FCD-25-113. At the ...

Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) has been in the headlines as of late as the GENIUS Act (S. 1582), a bill for which he was the primary sponsor, moves closer to passing in the U.S. Senate. The GENIUS Act is ...

In a move lauded as “common sense” by officials, the Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) today announced a proposed rule to ditch a 2024 ...

The Department of Interior makes that clear, or at least that is how she reads Title V of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. And “nobody wants that,” said Love, who heads the ...

Mining is not a short-term game. From early high-risk exploration to community liaison and securing project financing, there are many steps involved in getting a mine into production. Companies expend ...