SAO PAULO (AP) — The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving mercury ...

Barrick Mining Corporation (B) on Monday reported first-quarter net income of $1.6 billion. On a per-share basis, the Toronto-based company said it had profit of 96 cents. Earnings, adjusted for ...

In the year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to create a deep-sea mining industry from ...

Lone Star mornings have come wrapped in warm tortillas since long before 2017, when breakfast tacos became the official state ...

The USGS has identified over 2.3 million metric tons of recoverable lithium in the Appalachian region, enough to cover more ...

On Route 66’s 100th anniversary, a cross‑country road trip with my kids and parents became less about distance — and more ...

The southern Appalachians hold an estimated 1.43 million metric tons of lithium oxide, concentrated in the Carolinas, and the northern Appalachians hold an estimated 900,000 metric tons, concentrated ...

A good state motto should make a big statement, encapsulating its ideals and its essence. Does your state's motto reflect its ...

Every state in this country carries at least one story so dark, so strange, or so stubbornly persistent that it has outlasted ...

ACCORDING TO THE USGS, COULD CREATE MILLIONS OF LITHIUM BATTERIES. SO THIS IS WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT. THIS MIGHT JUST LOOK LIKE A REGULAR ROCK, BUT WHAT’S IN IT CAN HELP POWER PHONES, LAPTOPS, AND ...

A new law in New Hampshire expands the members of a Gold Star family who can honor their loved one through their license ...

Charlene Marois clutched the oversized photo of her brother, Marine Lance Cpl. Adam Brooks, as she stood next to Governor Kelly Ayotte. Marois has been fighting for the state to pass a piece of ...