Mineral production company Ionic says it discovered 16 different rare earth and critical minerals that will help the U.S.

Wednesday morning couldn't come soon enough. I tossed and turned Tuesday night — amped up about a gold mining trip to the High Desert the next day. Longtime prospector Joe Falcone, 69, a member of ...

Department of Interior reversed course on previous rulings and took steps to approve a dangerous groundwater mining proposal, which threatens Mojave National Preserve - the third largest national park ...

Inside the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia's Danakil desert, camel caravans are used to carry salt. For centuries, the essential mineral has been mined by the Afar people, known for their ability to ...

The California desert is the latest target of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's campaign to promote resource extraction on public lands across the West. Zinke's Interior Department said this week it ...

Opposition to lithium mining in Nevada has emerged from an unexpected source: NASA. The space agency has requested the protection of an ancient lakebed in eastern Nevada, which is not only rich in ...

Starting Friday, the Trump Administration is opening more than a million acres of desert lands in Southern California to possible new mining claims. The lands had formerly been set aside for ...

The town of Empire, Nevada - a filming location for "Nomadland" - shut down in 2011 and was abandoned for years. Alamy Empire, the abandoned mining town from "Nomadland," is a real-life place in the ...

For 40 years, Evelyn “Tonie” Seger lived on a remote mountain ledge 20 miles west of the old Mojave Desert mining town of Randsburg. Her five-room cabin is eight miles from the nearest highway and ...