A sinkhole, thought to be caused by a collapsed mineshaft, has appeared close to a coastal footpath near Thurlestone in South Devon. South West Water (SWW) engineers and Highways experts were at the ...

The mountain range is central to the origin story of several tribal nations and has become an international symbol of the ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

Mine on land and you threaten areas of incredible biodiversity with trees that sequester carbon, which is why some have set ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed more than four decades ago, but warned on Wednesday that full recovery may ...

The resulting sinkhole, about 15 feet wide and 30 feet deep, opened behind the local ... dry summer in 2000 may have weakened the mine’s shaft-supporting timbers, making them brittle and ...

The oldest mining test site is a strip of CCZ seabed, plowed in 1979. Daniel Jones, a NOC researcher who trawled the archives to pinpoint the location, said the test followed an CIA plot to recover a ...

With 588 abandoned mines throughout northern New Jersey, the Avalon apartments are far from the only structures built in proximity to these old shafts ... there is a former mine in the area ...

in the past have said the area's deep underground mine tunnels and voids are generally safe, apart from shaft openings and entrances. Story continues below photo gallery. There have nonetheless ...

According to the "Feasibility Study Report on the Deep Mining Project of the 100+105 Ore Bodies of Guangxi ... The construction includes a mixed hoisting shaft, ventilation shaft, ramp, underground ...

More news: Uranium miners Boss Energy and Deep Yellow were the two top performing ASX 200 stocks at 1pm AEDT, after rival Paladin Energy suspended operations at its Langer Heinrich mine due to heavy ...