Xstrata Plc said it has reached a last-minute accord with workers at its Sudbury nickel mines, averting a planned strike.

Rio Tinto , the world's second-biggest iron ore miner, beat its forecast for iron ore output, reflecting surging demand from Chinese steelmakers and setting the stage for tough contract price talks.

Kanawha schools closing two hours early 9:47 am Business Consol to resume Dunkard Creek discharges MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Consol Energy is developing long-term plans to build mine water treatment plants in the Dunkard Creek watershed, with the first operating by May 2013.

This article has been read 740 times. Consol Energy Inc. and Green Holdings Enlow, Inc., a greenhouse gas abatement company, said today they have entered into an agreement to develop the largest ventilation air methane emission abatement project in the U.S. at Consol's Enlow Fork Mine in Greene County.

The Obama administration is expected to announce today that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has signed off on an expansion permit for Patriot Coal's huge Hobet 21 mountaintop removal complex along the Boone-Lincoln county border.

NV GOLD MINE BLOCKED, 2ND LD-WRITETHRU RENO, Nev. - A federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily blocked construction of a massive gold mine project in northeast Nevada that critics say would harm the environment and ruin a mountain that several tribes consider sacred.

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U.S. miner to develop major chromite play in Ontario Chromite is used in the manufacture of stainless steel.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated federal environmental laws by failing to give the public enough of a say before issuing permits for mountaintop removal coal mines in West Virginia, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

The American and Walter Energy flags fly over the central mining office of Jim Walter Resources in Brookwood, Ala., where a mining accident claimed the life of an inspector.

Coal mining companies from Appalachia to Missouri are seeing plenty of rebounding demand, just not in this nation, the Associated Press reports.

Alcoa said it has lined up the financing for the complete repair and refurbishment of its 50,000-ton forging press at the company's Cleveland Works.