But 40 years of satellite photos ... mining in Bingham Canyon was underground, although the vast majority of ore has come from more than a century of digging what was once the world’s largest ...

The new open pit mine will operate above and around the site of Vale’s old Stobie Mine, which ceased operations in 2017 and was mostly demolished in 2020. (Supplied/Concrete Pictures Inc ...

The newspapers both quoted a local journalist as saying the mine wall that collapsed was approximately 115 feet tall. Photos posted to social media from the scene showed a large, open pit of clay ...

A copper mining company hopes to explore a site near Boise River headwaters for an open-pit mine north of Idaho City, but environmental groups say the project would threaten water quality and ...

But there's a tradeoff, as residents have learned near Charlotte, where a big open-pit mine is proposed. A company called Piedmont Lithium wants to build a mine and processing operation on 1,500 ...

An April 3 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows an image of an oil rig in a green field followed by an image of an open-pit mine. Text in the post labels the mine as a "lithium mine." ...