In an early scene from the Oscar-winning “Harlan County U.S.A.,” a piece of technology is shown swallowing coal miners by the dozen. One after the other, we see helmeted workers merge their prone ...

The town of Tonopah, Nev., was born out of a silver rush, when more than 10,000 people moved in during the early 1900s, racing to make money from a prized natural resource. It didn't last. Today, ...

As the mining industry continues to grow and evolve, companies are working with Tucson-area schools to fill what have been historically hard-to-fill positions. “We’re at a pinch point. It is more ...

Becky Rom of Ely, the national chair of the nonprofit Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, insinuated in a column in the News Tribune on May 22 that Congressman Pete Stauber and former President ...

As a major proponent of global warming, Donald Trump apparently thinks it benefits him to be perceived as a savior of jobs in the coal industry. This is likely not because he can do much to protect ...

Allegations by mining analyst Peter Major that President Cyril Ramaphosa and Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe oversaw the loss of up to 500,000 mining jobs have sparked renewed ...

In the next decade, the mining industry may lose more than half of its jobs to automation, according to a new report. That’s not based on future technologies, but on automated equipment being deployed ...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Ariz. (KGUN) — A new workforce training program in Nogales is aiming to prepare local residents for hundreds of jobs expected to open in the coming years at the Hermosa mine. On ...

The town of Tonopah, Nev., was born out of a silver rush, when more than 10,000 people moved in during the early 1900s, racing to make money from a prized natural resource. It didn't last. Today, ...