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Mining

A gold pan sideways in a stream, full of gold nuggest. | Clearviewstock | Dreamstime.com

Gold

Brickbat: Struck Gold

Charles Oliver | 5.27.2025 4:00 AM

A Ukrainian soldier stands near the Sudzha gas metering station damaged by hostilities, Kursk Oblast, Russia. Aug 17, 2024. | KIRILL CHUBOTIN/SIPA/Newscom

Foreign Policy

Trump Finds a Face-Saving Way To Give Ukraine 'the Right To Fight On'

Forget boots on the ground. Now we’ll have Americans “on the land.”

Matthew Petti | 2.27.2025 1:27 PM

Danger sign warning dangerous mine shafts do not pass beyond this point at entrance. | ID 236289887 | Abandoned Mine © Sharksurfer | Dreamstime.com

Environmental Law

New Law Finally Allows Conservationists To Clean Up Abandoned Mines

For decades, federal rules punished good Samaritans who tried to tackle toxic mine pollution. A new program removes barriers to restoring waterways across the West.

Tate Watkins | 12.20.2024 12:30 PM

John Stossel is seen in front of a mine | Stossel TV

Energy & Environment

Mining Is Safer, Cleaner, and More Ethical in America. So Why Do Environmentalists Stand in the Way?

The U.S. now ranks second to last in the time it takes to develop a new mine—roughly 29 years. Only Zambia is worse.

John Stossel | 11.20.2024 4:10 PM

A 1910 photograph of houses and other buildings in Buxton, Iowa | Photo: Panoramic view of Buxton, 1910; State Historical Society of Iowa

History

This Company Coal Town in Iowa Was a 'Black Utopia'

It was integrated, it was unionized—and it was a company town.

Jesse Walker | 2.8.2024 6:00 AM

A green electric vehicle seen on display in China | Cfoto/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Electric cars

Politicians Say They Want To Fight Climate Change. So Why Are They Fighting China on Electric Vehicles?

Rather than posing a national security threat, the growth of China's E.V. industry is an opportunity for global innovation.

Veronique de Rugy | 9.7.2023 4:20 PM

dreamstime_l_118417599 | Photo 118417599 © Sean Pavone | Dreamstime.com

Nuclear Power

Biden's New Grand Canyon Monument Will Hamper Clean Energy Production

The designation will prevent new uranium mines in a lucrative area.

William Rampe | 8.11.2023 11:15 AM

Wind energy turbines are seen at sunrise | Photo 53582516 © Bryan Roschetzky | Dreamstime.com

Energy & Environment

Democrats Say They Support Green Energy. Why Do Their Policies Say Otherwise?

If you look closely, you'll find a lot of contradictions.

Veronique de Rugy | 2.2.2023 4:45 PM

John Stossel stands in front of a row of cars | Stossel TV

Electric cars

Driving Electric Cars Produces Little Carbon. Making the Batteries Produces a Lot.

Many politicians who want to ban gas-powered vehicles appear to misunderstand the science.

John Stossel | 11.2.2022 12:30 AM

decker | Photo: Peter Turnley/Getty

Communism

Lost in Transition

30 years after the Soviet collapse, what happened to the Russian dream of a free economy?

Jarett Decker | 11.22.2021 6:00 AM

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Lithium

Lithium Mining, Formulaic Reporting, and The Washington Post

Missing the fact that governments, not mining companies, are the real villains

Ronald Bailey | 12.21.2016 11:31 AM

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Policy

Dodd-Frank at 5: How Financial Reform Led to Bloodshed in the Congo

Everything you think you know about conflict minerals is wrong.

Stephanie Slade | 7.21.2015 4:05 PM

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Culture

Private Pop-Up Towns in the Far North and in Space

A proprietary community in Quebec

Jesse Walker | 3.23.2015 12:01 PM

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Policy

How the Dodd-Frank Act Has Caused Poverty and Fuelled War in Africa

Patrick Hannaford | 12.4.2014 10:54 AM

World

Officials Say South African Police Lied About Mine Strike Killings

34 were killed; officers claimed self-defense.

Reason Staff | 9.19.2013 4:40 PM

World

24 Afghans Die in Coal Mine Collapse

In northern part of the country

Reason Staff | 9.15.2013 11:25 AM

Policy

World's Biggest Copper Mine Closed Because of Strike

Escondida mine in Chile

Reason Staff | 8.15.2013 10:28 AM

Science & Technology

New Uranium Mine Up and Running in Wyoming

In the works for eight years, got approved by feds last week

Reason Staff | 8.6.2013 4:10 PM

Policy

Mining Company Convicted of Desecrating Aboriginal Site in Australia

Fined $134,000

Reason Staff | 8.2.2013 4:20 PM

World

Ghana to Deport 150 Chinese Miners

Accused of working in the country illegally

Reason Staff | 6.7.2013 1:45 PM

World

Ghana Arrests Chinese Workers for Illegally Mining Gold

124 detained

Reason Staff | 6.6.2013 1:52 PM

World

Indonesian Mine Collapse Death Toll at 17

Likely to rise

Reason Staff | 5.20.2013 2:23 PM

Politics

Appeals Court Upholds EPA's Authority to Revoke State Mining Permits in West Virginia

Retroactively

Reason Staff | 4.23.2013 2:36 PM

Policy

Western States May Have to Return Federal Mining and Timber Money

As part of budget problems

Reason Staff | 3.29.2013 3:00 PM

World

Landslide in Tibet Traps 83 Miners

Workers with a gold company

Reason Staff | 3.29.2013 12:08 PM

Culture

Australian Miners Fired over "Harlem Shake" Video

Violated safety standards

Reason Staff | 3.4.2013 12:00 PM

Economics

Deep Sea Mining Could Become a Gold Rush

Gold, copper, zinc, other minerals in the ocean

Reason Staff | 2.1.2013 11:40 AM

Policy

Unions Look to Block Chinese Miners in Canada

Protectionism north of the border

Reason Staff | 12.10.2012 7:30 PM

Economics

S&P Cuts South Africa's Debt Rating

Instability and tension in the mining sector blamed

Reason Staff | 10.12.2012 5:50 PM

Policy

Russia Shares News of Diamond Rich Asteroid Crater

Trillions of carats waiting to be mined

Reason Staff | 9.18.2012 6:12 PM

Policy

South African Miners End Strike

22 percent pay hike offered by management

Reason Staff | 9.18.2012 4:12 PM

Policy

Richest Woman in the World Suggests $2 a Day Wage For Miners

That will go down well...

Reason Staff | 9.5.2012 10:30 AM

Policy

Greenland Thaw Could Prompt Mining Rush

Rare minerals could provide a boost to the local economy as China's reserves drop.

Reason Staff | 7.31.2012 10:12 AM

Policy

Rare Earth Ruckus

Are we at the mercy of China's mercantilist mandarins?

Ronald Bailey | 11.23.2010 4:30 PM

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