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STEPHEN PETRAS: Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to start the second panel of our conference. We have a special guest with us today from the Government of Quebec, through [...]

Last year, the international Energy Agency warned that, according to current supply projections, the world may not have enough needed minerals to power a carbon-free world. Today's shortfalls, the agency [...]

The transition to renewable energy is speedily underway. Meeting the ambitious targets necessary to avert climate catastrophe will require scaling up our use of low-carbon energy sources. These solar, wind, [...]

Thacker Pass, located in rural Humboldt County, Nevada, is at the center of a court battle over mining in the United States. It is a controversy that highlights the need [...]

The United States currently produces a tiny fraction of the global supply of critical minerals required for the clean energy transition. For example, according to the most recent World Mining [...]

Despite being home to vast and varied natural resources, the United States is facing grave mineral supply chain challenges. Our import reliance has been well-documented and increasingly problematic for decades, [...]

The last mineral rush in the United States left a toxic legacy of contaminated soils and water, kidney failure, and cancer. On the Navajo Nation, uranium still shows up in [...]

American miners and the minerals we produce are indispensable to modern society, providing the foundation for infrastructure, technology, manufacturing, health care, and national defense. Minerals also are essential to fighting [...]

When it comes to natural resources, conflicting interests are a problem that is neither new nor geographically unique. At one time or another, governments all over the world have been [...]

In recent years, oil and gas activity in the United States has increased and spread to new areas. This has boosted the economy and improved the nation's energy security, but [...]

As Canada's North is poised to experience an overall growth of 3.6% in 2012 and 5.4% in 2013, the mining industry can expect to continue to play a large part [...]

Zoning is a legislative function. Generally, a municipality's representatives make an informed decision about the community's needed land uses and where those uses would be best located. The judiciary traditionally [...]

Mining cause pollution and damage to habitats and leave cleanup to the use of taxes paid by the people. An outdated Mining Act signed by former U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant in 1872 is a source of problem for mining sites as it allows for mining to be given priority over other uses of federal public land. Details on the need to reform the law are discussed.

Many pits, one plea What caused America's worst mining accident in 25 years? IF YOU have ever wondered what the little metal ball in a wooden labyrinth feels like, drive [...]